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Among them are the Batte family, Bolling family, Branch family, Briggs family, Chappell family, Heath family, Jones family, Land family, Mallory family, Mason family, Morton family, Neblett family, Nicholson family, Peebles family, Pegram family and Rives family.","Small black notebook \"The Jones and Batte Families of Virginia\" in long hand. Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Sussex County, Virginia. Pages 11-49 Jones family, 1-5 Batte family. No page numbers, \"Genealogical data from Col. C. Jones' Book\", The Edwards family, the Lang family, the C. Jones family, the Eppes family, the Brodnax family, the Halcot Pride family.","With \"Supplementary Details\" and chart; also \"The Batte Family\" (typescript).","Rough hand notes on Jones family, Cargill, Higginson, Eppes, Williamson, Turpin, Belscher, Harrison, Jarratt, Peebles, Batte, Mason, Parham, Nicholson, Young, Blow, Goode, and Parker.","Oversize typed record. Also longhand notes by Nicholson.","Taken from records at Invermay \u0026 Greenyard, Scotland, now in possission of Lord Clinton copied by Mr. Edward Tuckerman while a guest of Lord Clinton. Mr. Tuckerman's wife was the daughter of Martha Cargill whose mother was Margaret Belsches. Mr. Tuckerman was a professor at Amherst College. 5 pp. of longhand of Mr. Nicholson's.","Content regarding ancestry and descent of Col. George Reade.","Notes from descent, wills, etc.","Descent of Thomas Jefferson, President, from Mary Branch and Tomas Jefferson: 1)Thomas Jefferson mar. Mary Branch, 2)Thomas Jefferson mar. Mary Field, 3)Peter Jefferson Mar. Jane Randolph, 4) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) President. See: Bell, Vol. II, 289-292.","Prob. 1789 April 5. Wife: Mary. Ch: Freeman (left \"Causon\" Pr. George Co., Va); pt. from Peter Batte, other lands, Blandford lots- Francis (left Amelia Co. land), Thomas (left Amelia Co. land), John (left Amelia Co. land and Lunenburg Co. land), Sara [m. Wm. 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Includes correspondence, notes and charts concerning many Virginia families. Among them are the Batte family, Bolling family, Branch family, Briggs family, Chappell family, Heath family, Jones family, Land family, Mallory family, Mason family, Morton family, Neblett family, Nicholson family, Peebles family, Pegram family and Rives family.","Small black notebook \"The Jones and Batte Families of Virginia\" in long hand. Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Sussex County, Virginia. Pages 11-49 Jones family, 1-5 Batte family. No page numbers, \"Genealogical data from Col. C. Jones' Book\", The Edwards family, the Lang family, the C. Jones family, the Eppes family, the Brodnax family, the Halcot Pride family.","With \"Supplementary Details\" and chart; also \"The Batte Family\" (typescript).","Rough hand notes on Jones family, Cargill, Higginson, Eppes, Williamson, Turpin, Belscher, Harrison, Jarratt, Peebles, Batte, Mason, Parham, Nicholson, Young, Blow, Goode, and Parker.","Oversize typed record. Also longhand notes by Nicholson.","Taken from records at Invermay \u0026 Greenyard, Scotland, now in possission of Lord Clinton copied by Mr. Edward Tuckerman while a guest of Lord Clinton. Mr. Tuckerman's wife was the daughter of Martha Cargill whose mother was Margaret Belsches. Mr. Tuckerman was a professor at Amherst College. 5 pp. of longhand of Mr. Nicholson's.","Content regarding ancestry and descent of Col. George Reade.","Notes from descent, wills, etc.","Descent of Thomas Jefferson, President, from Mary Branch and Tomas Jefferson: 1)Thomas Jefferson mar. Mary Branch, 2)Thomas Jefferson mar. Mary Field, 3)Peter Jefferson Mar. Jane Randolph, 4) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) President. See: Bell, Vol. II, 289-292.","Prob. 1789 April 5. Wife: Mary. Ch: Freeman (left \"Causon\" Pr. George Co., Va); pt. from Peter Batte, other lands, Blandford lots- Francis (left Amelia Co. land), Thomas (left Amelia Co. land), John (left Amelia Co. land and Lunenburg Co. land), Sara [m. Wm. 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Ballard, Compiler, Monroe County Historical Papers and Other Material","Arnott (W.Va.)","Ballard (W.Va.) -- Monroe County","Baltimore (Md.)","Greenville, Monroe County, WV.","Monroe County (W. Va.)","Union (W. Va.)","Broadsides.","Estate settlements.","Estates and estate settlements.","Family histories.","Genealogists' letters and papers.","Genealogy","General stores","Physicians - letters and papers.","Universities and colleges","Women's letters and papers.","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department at https://westvirginia.libanswers.com/wvrhc.","Folders are arranged alphabetically by surname.","Margaret Byrnside Ballard (April 9, 1900 - September 25, 1976) was born in Greenville, Monroe County, West Virginia. She was the daughter of Isaac Newton Ballard, the local postmaster and owner of a general store, and Kate May Walkup."," Margaret B. Ballard was educated in the public school at Greenville; Alleghany Collegiate Institute, Alderson, WV; attended West Virginia University; received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Maryland's School of Medicine in 1926. Dr. Ballard practiced medicine, specializing in Obstetrics and Gynecology, in Baltimore, Maryland from 1926 to June 1965. She was also a member of the faculty of the University of Maryland's School of Medicine from 1929 to 1965. Upon retiring, Dr. Ballard returned to Monroe County to pursue her interest in genealogy and local history."," Dr. Ballard was a member of the University of Maryland's School of Medicine's Alumni Association; the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland; the Baltimore City Medical Society; the West Virginia State Historical Society; the Greenbrier Historical Society; the West Virginia Artist's and Craftsmen Guild; and the Centerville Presbyterian Church in Greenville, WV. She was also one of the founders of the Monroe County Historical Society."," Dr. Ballard is the author of two books:  A University is Born , the story of the founding of the University of Maryland, and  William Ballard, A Genealogical Record of his Descendants in Monroe County . She has authored numerous writings for newspapers concerning local history and had several medical articles published in journals. In addition to her writings on local history, Margaret Ballard did genealogical research for other families as a professional genealogist. For a transcript of an oral history with Dr. Margaret Ballard conducted by Dr. George Parkinson, see  Goldenseal  Magazine, the April-June issue of 1977.","Papers of Dr. Margaret Byrnside Ballard (1900-1976), regarding the history of Monroe County, West Virginia, and the Ballard family. As a genealogist and author of local history, she was an avid collector of the historical materials contained in this collection, most of which relate to her family and Monroe County. The collection includes personal papers, business records, historical and genealogical research material, scrapbooks, bibles, memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, broadsides, paintings, and postage stamps.","\n Personal papers and business records include papers of the Ballard family, such as estate settlements and the papers of Helen Houston Ballard Clark, Margaret's sister; papers of her parents Isaac Newton Ballard and Kate May Walkup; and papers of Margaret Byrnside Ballard herself."," Historical and genealogical research material includes papers concerning local family genealogies that were compiled by Margaret Byrnside Ballard, materials compiled by Dr. Ballard concerning various topics of local history and of personal interest to her, and a genealogical index.","This series includes the business and personal papers of the Ballard family. Subjects include estate settlements and the papers of Helen Ballard Clark, Isaac Newton Ballard, and Margaret Byrnside Ballard.","Estate settlements pertain to Baldwin Ballard; his wife Leah Mann Ballard; their sons Charles Spurgeon Ballard, Simpson S. Ballard, and Isaac Newton Ballard; and Helen Ballard Clark, Isaac's daughter.","Helen Ballard Clark's papers include both business and personal papers (ca. 1920-1970s). Her business papers concern her book,  Geraldine . Her personal papers include the manuscript and book,  Geraldine ; letters to her mother, Kate May Walkup Ballard; letters from friends; and memorabilia.","Isaac Newton Ballard's papers include both business and personal papers (ca. 1870s-1950s). He was the first president of the Bank of Greenville and a Postmaster at Greenville. He was also part owner of a general store in Union called Ballard and Arnott. Materials included in his business papers are routine business correspondence, correspondence concerning routine farm business and his various investments, New River Grocery, the Bank of Greenville, C\u0026P Telephone, property deeds, leases, tax and other receipts, store account books, and personal account books. Isaac N. Ballard's personal papers include letters to his wife, Kate May Walkup Ballard; letters to and from his brothers, Charles S. Ballard and Simpson S. Ballard; letters to his daughters, Helen Ballard Clark and Margaret Byrnside Ballard; letters to and from family and friends; an autobiographical sketch; and his manuscript,  A Trip to the Holy Land .","Papers of Margaret Byrnside Ballard, compiler of this collection, include business and personal papers (ca. 1910s-1970s). Her business papers concern routine financial matters such as investments. Also includes papers and correspondence concerning Margaret B. Ballard's long medical career in Baltimore, such as published articles written by her and correspondence concerning her membership and practice and later dismissal from the Planned Parenthood Association. Margaret B. Ballard's personal papers include an autobiographical sketch, college journals and other material regarding her education, diaries, other journals, papers concerning the Alleghany Collegiate Institute, Arts and Crafts correspondence, and other miscellaneous papers reflecting her personal interests.","Although Margaret B. Ballard's general genealogical correspondence is found in Series 2 and 3, box 24 contains the Ballard family genealogy and related correspondence. Box 24 also contains Margaret B. Ballard's family genealogy,  William Ballard , with her handwritten annotations and newspaper clippings dealing with the Ballard family.","Although Series 1 contains the bulk of the business and personal papers generated by the Ballard family, many other family papers are interspersed throughout the collection. Margaret Ballard often arranged family papers in her collection according to subject matter rather than person of origin. For example, while a folder's subject heading may be Greenville Post Office, it may contain correspondence and other materials generated by I.N. Ballard because he was the Greenville Postmaster for a time. Many subject headings or family histories may be compared to research projects with the research materials used by M. Ballard contained within.","This series consists of materials concerning local family genealogies, local histories, and miscellaneous subjects. Most of the materials found in this series are the result of Margaret B. Ballard's genealogical research for local families and her personal interest in the local history of Monroe County and the surrounding area. The arrangement of this series is the original order created by Margaret Ballard and is usually listed by subject name, place name, or family surname. Additional genealogy material can be found in Series 3, 6, and 10. This series includes five subseries.","This subseries includes Arnott family papers, Byrnside family papers (1850s-1870s), and papers and genealogical information pertaining to many other families. Folders are arranged alphabetically by surname.","This subseries includes routine correspondence dealing with Margaret Ballard's genealogical work for local families, as well as her father's genealogical work. See Series 3 for compiled notebooks of Margaret Ballard's genealogical work.","This subseries includes various account books of local people, collected by Margaret Ballard.","This subseries includes collected histories, newspaper clippings, ephemera, copies of county court records, histories of educational institutions, and articles concerning various places and subjects. These materials were collected, put into folders, and given subject headings by Margaret Ballard. The arrangement has not been changed.","This series consists of miscellaneous genealogical and local history materials written or collected by Margaret Ballard, who organized the materials into notebooks. Most of the notebooks are the finished results of Margaret Ballard's genealogical and local history research. Included are many well-organized family histories and place histories. The notebooks are arranged into two sections: genealogies (boxes 41-62) and local history subjects (boxes 63-71). Each section is arranged alphabetically by family name or subject matter. The notebooks are listed under headings assigned by Margaret Ballard. Additional genealogy material can be found in Series 2, 6, and 10.","This series contains three scrapbooks, most likely compiled by Margaret B. Ballard. They include newspaper clippings of obituaries and marriages of Monroe County residents. Scrapbooks 1 and 3 are in box 73; scrapbook 4 is in box 72. Scrapbook 1 includes mostly obituaries (1898-1901, undated). Scrapbook 3 includes obituaries of Arnott, Boon, and Pence family members, as well as others in alphabetical order (ca. 1900-1952). Scrapbook 4 includes obituaries, marriage clippings, and other clippings (ca. 1870s-1913).","This series includes the 1833 King James Version Bible of J. M. Byrnside and the 1870 pictorial Bible of Isaac F. and Rebecca Ballard.","This series includes a microfilm reel of \"A Pilgrimage Through the Holy Land,\" by Isaac Newton Ballard, 1904 (box 74), and a variety of genealogy and local history material (7 reels in microfilm cabinets). Please see control folder for more information. Additional genealogy and local history material can be found in Series 2, 3, and 10.","This series includes postcards (1904-1909, 1945-1975); Lutheran Church teaching accreditation certificates and leadership course cards (ca. 1936-1958); bible study notecards (undated); and greeting cards, certificates, registration cards, and other ephemera (1895-1973). Postcards are mostly unused and include images of covered bridges in the U.S. as well as buildings and scenery in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, and other states.","This series includes rubber stamps, nametags, pins, bookmarks, Civil War bullets, and other items.","This series includes approximately 2,400 photographs as well as negatives and two scrapbooks. These photographs of family, friends, and West Virginia places are mostly identified. The photos and negatives are divided into two categories, Places \u0026 Things and People, and are foldered alphabetically. The scrapbooks are family photograph albums (ca. 1920s-1940s, undated). The two photographs in the composite box are ambrotypes (ca. 1850s-1860s). See Separations note for additional information.","This series includes genealogical notecards and clippings. Topics of the clippings include individuals, families, schools, and places, among others, with a focus on Monroe County. Additional genealogy and local history material can be found in Series 2, 3, and 6.","Includes broadsides, oversized photos, artwork, and oversized documents such as diplomas, certificates, and appointments.","This series includes four paintings. Two of the paintings depict Mr. and Mrs. Byrnside, Dr. Ballard's great-grandparents.","This series includes a collection of mostly twentieth century United States postage stamps, and USPS collectible and commemorative stamp advertisements (ca. 1960s-1970s). The stamps were originally donated without arrangement. Harold Forbes, University Librarian Emeritus at the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center, arranged them into an album, provided supplemental stamps, and provided a book about stamp collecting for those unfamiliar with the hobby. Forbes described his arrangement work in an enclosed letter (2021).","185 photographs of family and West Virginia places have been separated and are located in the photographs Numeric File, under Monroe County, Ballard Collection.","  Over 40 books were separated from the collection.","  Map of Montgomery County, Virginia, 1789, separated to Maps Collection.","  Unidentified broadsides separated to the Broadside Collection.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Dr. Margaret Byrnside Ballard (1900-1991), regarding the history of Monroe County, West Virginia, and the Ballard family. As a genealogist and author of local history, she was an avid collector of the historical materials contained in this collection, most of which relate to her family and Monroe County. 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Ballard was educated in the public school at Greenville; Alleghany Collegiate Institute, Alderson, WV; attended West Virginia University; received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Maryland's School of Medicine in 1926. Dr. Ballard practiced medicine, specializing in Obstetrics and Gynecology, in Baltimore, Maryland from 1926 to June 1965. She was also a member of the faculty of the University of Maryland's School of Medicine from 1929 to 1965. Upon retiring, Dr. Ballard returned to Monroe County to pursue her interest in genealogy and local history."," Dr. Ballard was a member of the University of Maryland's School of Medicine's Alumni Association; the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland; the Baltimore City Medical Society; the West Virginia State Historical Society; the Greenbrier Historical Society; the West Virginia Artist's and Craftsmen Guild; and the Centerville Presbyterian Church in Greenville, WV. She was also one of the founders of the Monroe County Historical Society."," Dr. Ballard is the author of two books:  A University is Born , the story of the founding of the University of Maryland, and  William Ballard, A Genealogical Record of his Descendants in Monroe County . She has authored numerous writings for newspapers concerning local history and had several medical articles published in journals. In addition to her writings on local history, Margaret Ballard did genealogical research for other families as a professional genealogist. For a transcript of an oral history with Dr. Margaret Ballard conducted by Dr. George Parkinson, see  Goldenseal  Magazine, the April-June issue of 1977."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Margaret B. Ballard, Compiler, Monroe County Historical Papers and Other Material, A\u0026amp;M 2537, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Margaret B. Ballard, Compiler, Monroe County Historical Papers and Other Material, A\u0026M 2537, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of Dr. Margaret Byrnside Ballard (1900-1976), regarding the history of Monroe County, West Virginia, and the Ballard family. As a genealogist and author of local history, she was an avid collector of the historical materials contained in this collection, most of which relate to her family and Monroe County. The collection includes personal papers, business records, historical and genealogical research material, scrapbooks, bibles, memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, broadsides, paintings, and postage stamps.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n Personal papers and business records include papers of the Ballard family, such as estate settlements and the papers of Helen Houston Ballard Clark, Margaret's sister; papers of her parents Isaac Newton Ballard and Kate May Walkup; and papers of Margaret Byrnside Ballard herself.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Historical and genealogical research material includes papers concerning local family genealogies that were compiled by Margaret Byrnside Ballard, materials compiled by Dr. Ballard concerning various topics of local history and of personal interest to her, and a genealogical index.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the business and personal papers of the Ballard family. Subjects include estate settlements and the papers of Helen Ballard Clark, Isaac Newton Ballard, and Margaret Byrnside Ballard.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eEstate settlements pertain to Baldwin Ballard; his wife Leah Mann Ballard; their sons Charles Spurgeon Ballard, Simpson S. Ballard, and Isaac Newton Ballard; and Helen Ballard Clark, Isaac's daughter.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHelen Ballard Clark's papers include both business and personal papers (ca. 1920-1970s). Her business papers concern her book, \u003cemph\u003eGeraldine\u003c/emph\u003e. Her personal papers include the manuscript and book, \u003cemph\u003eGeraldine\u003c/emph\u003e; letters to her mother, Kate May Walkup Ballard; letters from friends; and memorabilia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIsaac Newton Ballard's papers include both business and personal papers (ca. 1870s-1950s). He was the first president of the Bank of Greenville and a Postmaster at Greenville. He was also part owner of a general store in Union called Ballard and Arnott. Materials included in his business papers are routine business correspondence, correspondence concerning routine farm business and his various investments, New River Grocery, the Bank of Greenville, C\u0026amp;P Telephone, property deeds, leases, tax and other receipts, store account books, and personal account books. Isaac N. Ballard's personal papers include letters to his wife, Kate May Walkup Ballard; letters to and from his brothers, Charles S. Ballard and Simpson S. Ballard; letters to his daughters, Helen Ballard Clark and Margaret Byrnside Ballard; letters to and from family and friends; an autobiographical sketch; and his manuscript, \u003cemph\u003eA Trip to the Holy Land\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePapers of Margaret Byrnside Ballard, compiler of this collection, include business and personal papers (ca. 1910s-1970s). Her business papers concern routine financial matters such as investments. Also includes papers and correspondence concerning Margaret B. Ballard's long medical career in Baltimore, such as published articles written by her and correspondence concerning her membership and practice and later dismissal from the Planned Parenthood Association. Margaret B. Ballard's personal papers include an autobiographical sketch, college journals and other material regarding her education, diaries, other journals, papers concerning the Alleghany Collegiate Institute, Arts and Crafts correspondence, and other miscellaneous papers reflecting her personal interests.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlthough Margaret B. Ballard's general genealogical correspondence is found in Series 2 and 3, box 24 contains the Ballard family genealogy and related correspondence. Box 24 also contains Margaret B. Ballard's family genealogy, \u003cemph\u003eWilliam Ballard\u003c/emph\u003e, with her handwritten annotations and newspaper clippings dealing with the Ballard family.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlthough Series 1 contains the bulk of the business and personal papers generated by the Ballard family, many other family papers are interspersed throughout the collection. Margaret Ballard often arranged family papers in her collection according to subject matter rather than person of origin. For example, while a folder's subject heading may be Greenville Post Office, it may contain correspondence and other materials generated by I.N. Ballard because he was the Greenville Postmaster for a time. Many subject headings or family histories may be compared to research projects with the research materials used by M. Ballard contained within.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of materials concerning local family genealogies, local histories, and miscellaneous subjects. Most of the materials found in this series are the result of Margaret B. Ballard's genealogical research for local families and her personal interest in the local history of Monroe County and the surrounding area. The arrangement of this series is the original order created by Margaret Ballard and is usually listed by subject name, place name, or family surname. Additional genealogy material can be found in Series 3, 6, and 10. This series includes five subseries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes Arnott family papers, Byrnside family papers (1850s-1870s), and papers and genealogical information pertaining to many other families. Folders are arranged alphabetically by surname.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes routine correspondence dealing with Margaret Ballard's genealogical work for local families, as well as her father's genealogical work. See Series 3 for compiled notebooks of Margaret Ballard's genealogical work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes various account books of local people, collected by Margaret Ballard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes collected histories, newspaper clippings, ephemera, copies of county court records, histories of educational institutions, and articles concerning various places and subjects. These materials were collected, put into folders, and given subject headings by Margaret Ballard. The arrangement has not been changed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of miscellaneous genealogical and local history materials written or collected by Margaret Ballard, who organized the materials into notebooks. Most of the notebooks are the finished results of Margaret Ballard's genealogical and local history research. Included are many well-organized family histories and place histories. The notebooks are arranged into two sections: genealogies (boxes 41-62) and local history subjects (boxes 63-71). Each section is arranged alphabetically by family name or subject matter. The notebooks are listed under headings assigned by Margaret Ballard. Additional genealogy material can be found in Series 2, 6, and 10.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains three scrapbooks, most likely compiled by Margaret B. Ballard. They include newspaper clippings of obituaries and marriages of Monroe County residents. Scrapbooks 1 and 3 are in box 73; scrapbook 4 is in box 72. Scrapbook 1 includes mostly obituaries (1898-1901, undated). Scrapbook 3 includes obituaries of Arnott, Boon, and Pence family members, as well as others in alphabetical order (ca. 1900-1952). Scrapbook 4 includes obituaries, marriage clippings, and other clippings (ca. 1870s-1913).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes the 1833 King James Version Bible of J. M. Byrnside and the 1870 pictorial Bible of Isaac F. and Rebecca Ballard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a microfilm reel of \"A Pilgrimage Through the Holy Land,\" by Isaac Newton Ballard, 1904 (box 74), and a variety of genealogy and local history material (7 reels in microfilm cabinets). Please see control folder for more information. Additional genealogy and local history material can be found in Series 2, 3, and 10.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes postcards (1904-1909, 1945-1975); Lutheran Church teaching accreditation certificates and leadership course cards (ca. 1936-1958); bible study notecards (undated); and greeting cards, certificates, registration cards, and other ephemera (1895-1973). Postcards are mostly unused and include images of covered bridges in the U.S. as well as buildings and scenery in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, and other states.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes rubber stamps, nametags, pins, bookmarks, Civil War bullets, and other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes approximately 2,400 photographs as well as negatives and two scrapbooks. These photographs of family, friends, and West Virginia places are mostly identified. The photos and negatives are divided into two categories, Places \u0026amp; Things and People, and are foldered alphabetically. The scrapbooks are family photograph albums (ca. 1920s-1940s, undated). The two photographs in the composite box are ambrotypes (ca. 1850s-1860s). See Separations note for additional information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes genealogical notecards and clippings. Topics of the clippings include individuals, families, schools, and places, among others, with a focus on Monroe County. Additional genealogy and local history material can be found in Series 2, 3, and 6.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes broadsides, oversized photos, artwork, and oversized documents such as diplomas, certificates, and appointments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes four paintings. Two of the paintings depict Mr. and Mrs. Byrnside, Dr. Ballard's great-grandparents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes a collection of mostly twentieth century United States postage stamps, and USPS collectible and commemorative stamp advertisements (ca. 1960s-1970s). The stamps were originally donated without arrangement. Harold Forbes, University Librarian Emeritus at the West Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center, arranged them into an album, provided supplemental stamps, and provided a book about stamp collecting for those unfamiliar with the hobby. Forbes described his arrangement work in an enclosed letter (2021).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Dr. Margaret Byrnside Ballard (1900-1976), regarding the history of Monroe County, West Virginia, and the Ballard family. As a genealogist and author of local history, she was an avid collector of the historical materials contained in this collection, most of which relate to her family and Monroe County. The collection includes personal papers, business records, historical and genealogical research material, scrapbooks, bibles, memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, broadsides, paintings, and postage stamps.","\n Personal papers and business records include papers of the Ballard family, such as estate settlements and the papers of Helen Houston Ballard Clark, Margaret's sister; papers of her parents Isaac Newton Ballard and Kate May Walkup; and papers of Margaret Byrnside Ballard herself."," Historical and genealogical research material includes papers concerning local family genealogies that were compiled by Margaret Byrnside Ballard, materials compiled by Dr. Ballard concerning various topics of local history and of personal interest to her, and a genealogical index.","This series includes the business and personal papers of the Ballard family. Subjects include estate settlements and the papers of Helen Ballard Clark, Isaac Newton Ballard, and Margaret Byrnside Ballard.","Estate settlements pertain to Baldwin Ballard; his wife Leah Mann Ballard; their sons Charles Spurgeon Ballard, Simpson S. Ballard, and Isaac Newton Ballard; and Helen Ballard Clark, Isaac's daughter.","Helen Ballard Clark's papers include both business and personal papers (ca. 1920-1970s). Her business papers concern her book,  Geraldine . Her personal papers include the manuscript and book,  Geraldine ; letters to her mother, Kate May Walkup Ballard; letters from friends; and memorabilia.","Isaac Newton Ballard's papers include both business and personal papers (ca. 1870s-1950s). He was the first president of the Bank of Greenville and a Postmaster at Greenville. He was also part owner of a general store in Union called Ballard and Arnott. Materials included in his business papers are routine business correspondence, correspondence concerning routine farm business and his various investments, New River Grocery, the Bank of Greenville, C\u0026P Telephone, property deeds, leases, tax and other receipts, store account books, and personal account books. Isaac N. Ballard's personal papers include letters to his wife, Kate May Walkup Ballard; letters to and from his brothers, Charles S. Ballard and Simpson S. Ballard; letters to his daughters, Helen Ballard Clark and Margaret Byrnside Ballard; letters to and from family and friends; an autobiographical sketch; and his manuscript,  A Trip to the Holy Land .","Papers of Margaret Byrnside Ballard, compiler of this collection, include business and personal papers (ca. 1910s-1970s). Her business papers concern routine financial matters such as investments. Also includes papers and correspondence concerning Margaret B. Ballard's long medical career in Baltimore, such as published articles written by her and correspondence concerning her membership and practice and later dismissal from the Planned Parenthood Association. Margaret B. Ballard's personal papers include an autobiographical sketch, college journals and other material regarding her education, diaries, other journals, papers concerning the Alleghany Collegiate Institute, Arts and Crafts correspondence, and other miscellaneous papers reflecting her personal interests.","Although Margaret B. Ballard's general genealogical correspondence is found in Series 2 and 3, box 24 contains the Ballard family genealogy and related correspondence. Box 24 also contains Margaret B. Ballard's family genealogy,  William Ballard , with her handwritten annotations and newspaper clippings dealing with the Ballard family.","Although Series 1 contains the bulk of the business and personal papers generated by the Ballard family, many other family papers are interspersed throughout the collection. Margaret Ballard often arranged family papers in her collection according to subject matter rather than person of origin. For example, while a folder's subject heading may be Greenville Post Office, it may contain correspondence and other materials generated by I.N. Ballard because he was the Greenville Postmaster for a time. Many subject headings or family histories may be compared to research projects with the research materials used by M. Ballard contained within.","This series consists of materials concerning local family genealogies, local histories, and miscellaneous subjects. Most of the materials found in this series are the result of Margaret B. Ballard's genealogical research for local families and her personal interest in the local history of Monroe County and the surrounding area. The arrangement of this series is the original order created by Margaret Ballard and is usually listed by subject name, place name, or family surname. Additional genealogy material can be found in Series 3, 6, and 10. This series includes five subseries.","This subseries includes Arnott family papers, Byrnside family papers (1850s-1870s), and papers and genealogical information pertaining to many other families. Folders are arranged alphabetically by surname.","This subseries includes routine correspondence dealing with Margaret Ballard's genealogical work for local families, as well as her father's genealogical work. See Series 3 for compiled notebooks of Margaret Ballard's genealogical work.","This subseries includes various account books of local people, collected by Margaret Ballard.","This subseries includes collected histories, newspaper clippings, ephemera, copies of county court records, histories of educational institutions, and articles concerning various places and subjects. These materials were collected, put into folders, and given subject headings by Margaret Ballard. The arrangement has not been changed.","This series consists of miscellaneous genealogical and local history materials written or collected by Margaret Ballard, who organized the materials into notebooks. Most of the notebooks are the finished results of Margaret Ballard's genealogical and local history research. Included are many well-organized family histories and place histories. The notebooks are arranged into two sections: genealogies (boxes 41-62) and local history subjects (boxes 63-71). Each section is arranged alphabetically by family name or subject matter. The notebooks are listed under headings assigned by Margaret Ballard. Additional genealogy material can be found in Series 2, 6, and 10.","This series contains three scrapbooks, most likely compiled by Margaret B. Ballard. They include newspaper clippings of obituaries and marriages of Monroe County residents. Scrapbooks 1 and 3 are in box 73; scrapbook 4 is in box 72. Scrapbook 1 includes mostly obituaries (1898-1901, undated). Scrapbook 3 includes obituaries of Arnott, Boon, and Pence family members, as well as others in alphabetical order (ca. 1900-1952). Scrapbook 4 includes obituaries, marriage clippings, and other clippings (ca. 1870s-1913).","This series includes the 1833 King James Version Bible of J. M. Byrnside and the 1870 pictorial Bible of Isaac F. and Rebecca Ballard.","This series includes a microfilm reel of \"A Pilgrimage Through the Holy Land,\" by Isaac Newton Ballard, 1904 (box 74), and a variety of genealogy and local history material (7 reels in microfilm cabinets). Please see control folder for more information. Additional genealogy and local history material can be found in Series 2, 3, and 10.","This series includes postcards (1904-1909, 1945-1975); Lutheran Church teaching accreditation certificates and leadership course cards (ca. 1936-1958); bible study notecards (undated); and greeting cards, certificates, registration cards, and other ephemera (1895-1973). Postcards are mostly unused and include images of covered bridges in the U.S. as well as buildings and scenery in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, and other states.","This series includes rubber stamps, nametags, pins, bookmarks, Civil War bullets, and other items.","This series includes approximately 2,400 photographs as well as negatives and two scrapbooks. These photographs of family, friends, and West Virginia places are mostly identified. The photos and negatives are divided into two categories, Places \u0026 Things and People, and are foldered alphabetically. The scrapbooks are family photograph albums (ca. 1920s-1940s, undated). The two photographs in the composite box are ambrotypes (ca. 1850s-1860s). See Separations note for additional information.","This series includes genealogical notecards and clippings. Topics of the clippings include individuals, families, schools, and places, among others, with a focus on Monroe County. Additional genealogy and local history material can be found in Series 2, 3, and 6.","Includes broadsides, oversized photos, artwork, and oversized documents such as diplomas, certificates, and appointments.","This series includes four paintings. Two of the paintings depict Mr. and Mrs. Byrnside, Dr. Ballard's great-grandparents.","This series includes a collection of mostly twentieth century United States postage stamps, and USPS collectible and commemorative stamp advertisements (ca. 1960s-1970s). The stamps were originally donated without arrangement. Harold Forbes, University Librarian Emeritus at the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center, arranged them into an album, provided supplemental stamps, and provided a book about stamp collecting for those unfamiliar with the hobby. Forbes described his arrangement work in an enclosed letter (2021)."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e185 photographs of family and West Virginia places have been separated and are located in the photographs Numeric File, under Monroe County, Ballard Collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Over 40 books were separated from the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Map of Montgomery County, Virginia, 1789, separated to Maps Collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e  Unidentified broadsides separated to the Broadside Collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["185 photographs of family and West Virginia places have been separated and are located in the photographs Numeric File, under Monroe County, Ballard Collection.","  Over 40 books were separated from the collection.","  Map of Montgomery County, Virginia, 1789, separated to Maps Collection.","  Unidentified broadsides separated to the Broadside Collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_ba9ce38aeaacdeb5161873129bae0a29\"\u003ePapers of Dr. Margaret Byrnside Ballard (1900-1991), regarding the history of Monroe County, West Virginia, and the Ballard family. As a genealogist and author of local history, she was an avid collector of the historical materials contained in this collection, most of which relate to her family and Monroe County. The collection includes personal papers, business records, historical and genealogical research material, scrapbooks, bibles, memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, broadsides, paintings, and postage stamps. See the Historical Note for more information about Dr. Ballard.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Dr. Margaret Byrnside Ballard (1900-1991), regarding the history of Monroe County, West Virginia, and the Ballard family. As a genealogist and author of local history, she was an avid collector of the historical materials contained in this collection, most of which relate to her family and Monroe County. The collection includes personal papers, business records, historical and genealogical research material, scrapbooks, bibles, memorabilia, artifacts, photographs, broadsides, paintings, and postage stamps. 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Photographs from 1937: \"Bewdley,\" Lancaster Courthouse (Lancaster Post Office and former jail), Overseer's house on the Black Stump Quarter of Robert Carter's Corotoman Plantation (Weems Post Office), Sipes House (Lively Post Office) and Armstrong House (Palmer Post Office)."],"title_filing_ssi":"Typed transcriptions of pew rental lists","title_ssm":["Typed transcriptions of pew rental lists"],"title_tesim":["Typed transcriptions of pew rental lists"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1727, 1748, 1750, 1936, 1937"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1727/1937"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Typed transcriptions of pew rental lists"],"component_level_isim":[2],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"collection_ssim":["Virginia Counties Collection"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"level_ssm":["File"],"level_ssim":["File"],"sort_isi":325,"parent_access_restrict_tesm":["Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"parent_access_terms_tesm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"date_range_isim":[1727,1728,1729,1730,1731,1732,1733,1734,1735,1736,1737,1738,1739,1740,1741,1742,1743,1744,1745,1746,1747,1748,1749,1750,1751,1752,1753,1754,1755,1756,1757,1758,1759,1760,1761,1762,1763,1764,1765,1766,1767,1768,1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937],"containers_ssim":["Box 11","Folder 11"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTyped transcriptions of pew rental lists: 1721 and 1748, for Christ Church Parish; 1750, for [St. Mary's] White Chapel Parish and a newspaper clipping, 13 February 1936, from the Rappahannock Record on the history of St. Mary's White Chapel by Elizabeth Comps Pierce. 4 items. Photographs from 1937: \"Bewdley,\" Lancaster Courthouse (Lancaster Post Office and former jail), Overseer's house on the Black Stump Quarter of Robert Carter's Corotoman Plantation (Weems Post Office), Sipes House (Lively Post Office) and Armstrong House (Palmer Post Office).\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Typed transcriptions of pew rental lists: 1721 and 1748, for Christ Church Parish; 1750, for [St. Mary's] White Chapel Parish and a newspaper clipping, 13 February 1936, from the Rappahannock Record on the history of St. Mary's White Chapel by Elizabeth Comps Pierce. 4 items. Photographs from 1937: \"Bewdley,\" Lancaster Courthouse (Lancaster Post Office and former jail), Overseer's house on the Black Stump Quarter of Robert Carter's Corotoman Plantation (Weems Post Office), Sipes House (Lively Post Office) and Armstrong House (Palmer Post Office)."],"_nest_path_":"/components#42/components#0","timestamp":"2026-05-21T00:51:30.800Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9213","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9213","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9213","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9213","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_9213.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Virginia Counties Collection","title_ssm":["Virginia Counties Collection"],"title_tesim":["Virginia Counties Collection"],"unitdate_ssm":["1600-2000","1730-1890"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1730-1890"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1600-2000"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 39.4 V82co","/repositories/2/resources/9213"],"text":["Mss. 39.4 V82co","/repositories/2/resources/9213","Virginia Counties Collection","Accomack County (Va.)--History","Albemarle County (Va.)--History","Amelia County (Va.)--History","Amherst County (Va.)--History","Augusta County (Va.)--History","Bedford County (Va.)--History","Berkeley County (W.Va.)--History","Botetourt County (Va.)--History","Brunswick County (Va.)--History","Buckingham County (Va.)--History","Campbell County (Va.)--History","Caroline County (Va.)--History","Charles City County (Va.)--History","Charlotte County (Va.)--History","Chesterfield County (Va.)--History","Clarke County (Va.)--History","Culpeper County (Va.)--History","Cumberland County (Va.)--History","Dinwiddie County (Va.)--History","Fluvanna County (Va.)--History","Goochland County (Va.)--History","Halifax County (Va.)--History","Isle of Wight County (Va.)--History","Jefferson County (W.Va.)--History","Lancaster County (Va.)--History","Lee County (Va.)--History","Louisa County (Va.)--History","Lunenburg County (Va.)--History","Madison County (Va.)--History","Mathews County (Va.)--History","Mecklenburg County (Va.)--History","Middlesex County (Va.)--History","Montgomery County (Va.)--History","Nelson County (Va.)--History","New Kent County (Va.)--History","Norfolk County (Va.)--History","Page County (Va.)--History","Patrick County (Va.)--History","Prince George County (Va.)--History","Prince William County (Va.)--History","Princess Anne County (Va.)--History","Rappahannock County (Va.)--History","Richmond County (Va.)--History","Stafford County (Va.)--History","Virginia--Governors","Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775","Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783","Virginia--Militia","Virginia--Religious history","Warwick County (Va.)--History","Washington County (Va.)--History","West Augusta County (Va.)--History","Westmoreland County (Va.)--History","Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs","Wythe County (Va.)--History","York County (Va.)--History","Accounts","Agriculture--Virginia--History","Anti-slavery movements","Church records and registers--Virginia","College of William and Mary--History--18th century","Criss Cross House (New Kent County, Va.)","Deeds--Virginia","Dunmore County (Va.)--History--18th century","Education--Virginia--History","Elizabeth City County (Va.)--History","Episcopal Church--Virginia--History","Fairfax County (Va.)--History","Fauquier County (Va.)--History","Fayette County (W. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Reprocessed by Anne Johnson in 2011.","Mss. 39.2 V82ci Virginia Cities Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library"," Mss. 65 V82 Virginia Quitrents Collection, 1704-1705, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library"," Search specific county names to access other collections that were generated by or generated in these counties, such as account books and family papers.","Artificial collection of papers relating to various counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia."," Includes current West Virginia Counties of Berkeley, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan, Nicholas and Pendleton because the material was generated when these counties were part of Virginia.","Typescript copy of resolutions, 1812, passed at a meeting of the freeholders and citizens of Accomack to consider and express their sentiments on public affairs and certain late occurrences.","Bible records from Accomack and Northhampton Counties. Bible records of Accomack and Northampton Counties compiled by Jean M. Mihalyka in 1993. Volume 9. (Mss. Acc. 1991.46)","Bible records of Accomack and Northampton Counties compiled by Jean M. Mihalyka in 1993. Volumes 12 and 13.  Mss. Acc. 1994.74a","Photograph of an original pen and ink sketch of St. George's Church by Rev. James Willis Eastburn. Mss. Acc. 2008.193","Scope and Contents Receipts for quitrents (1750), payments and judgments (1752), tax receipts for 1822 and 1824 and typescript of petitions on juries (1798), concerning selection of juries, addresses, 1918 and 1936, concerning Grace Church, Cismont, Va. Typed manuscript concerning Albemarle Agricultural Society and typescript of minute book, 1817-1828, of Albemarle Agricultural Society as well as material concerning \"Fancy Hill,\" Albemarle County, Va. The materials that comprise this collection were donated by Lucy W. Sneed and John Lawrence and purchased from C. H. Stoneman by W\u0026M Special Collections Research Center in batches between 1940 and 1997.","Receipt for payment of £310.12.5 on quitrents in Albemarle County, Virginia. 1p. DS.","Receipt for payment of £100.1.8 in current money, which was sent by John Smith, Sheriff of Albemarle County, Virginia in part of a judgment due the King of Great Britain from Joseph Thompson [deceased?], Sheriff.","Petition on selection of juries. TCy.","Taxes paid on 130 acres of land, horses, and slaves by Thomas Rea, to the Sheriff of Albemarle Co. Va. 1 item. PDS","For the District of Virginia in a chancery suit of The Bank of Howardsville, et als vs. the president, directors and company of said bank. 28 pp. PD","27 pp. PM.","16 pp. PM","19 pp. PM.","89 pp. PM.","2 items.","Handwritten copy of a bond for Drury M. Burnley who is elected as sheriff of Albemarle County for the term of two years beginning January 1, 1857.  Bond includes names of family members.  Mss. Acc. 1997.31b. Certificate from Free Union Baptist Church for Sister Sally Wood to recommend her for membership. September 1883. Two letters to Bro' (Brother) Dudley from L.W. (Allen) which mentions Licking Hole Church. November 23, 1853 and undated.  Mss. Acc. 2008.193.","Letter to Dr. Earl Gregg Swem from W.S. Morton about material for the William and Mary Quarterly. Typed copy of Marriage Bonds of Amelia County, A-Z by husband, ca. 1735-1854. Prepared by J.D. Eggleston. Undated. Photographs of Amelia Sulpher Spring with notes on the reverse side. Undated. Letter to Susie from a correspondent in Mattoax, Virginia. Undated. Mss. Acc. 2008.193.","Papers, 1769-1803, relating to Amherst County, Va. Includes appointment, 1769, of 18 Justices of the Peace , signed by Lieut. Gov. Botetourt (Lord Botetourt). A bond, 29 January, 1803, due from J. Daniel Day and Solomon Day to Jane Rickets, widow of Thomas Rickets. Attested to by John Reynolds and Noah Guttry. 1 p. cy of ADS. Gift of Mrs. G.M. Kent in 1948.","Includes deeds, wills, legal documents, and church records (Christians Creek School House, Glebe Burying Ground, Old Stone Church, and Tinkling Spring Church.) 58 items. Purchased 1939 from C. J. Carrier of Bridgewater, VA.","3 pieces","1 piece.","[11p.] 23 1/2 cm. Printed. 2 copies.","By Rev. John Craig, first pastor of Old Stone Church in Augusta County, Virginia. 24, 14 p. 11x 8 3/3 inches. Mimeographed. 1 piece.","14 p. 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Mimeographed. 1 piece.","10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. 1 piece.","Content regarding payment for land purchased from George Ruebush. 1 piece.","1 piece.","Possibly drawn by Henry Hearman. Includes handrawn map of Virginia.","Price list card for A.M. Bruce, Wholesale Provision Merchant. Staunton, Virginia. Undated. Photostat of an order issued April 22, 1772 for land forfeiture.","Scope and Contents Papers, 1767-1870, relating to Bedford County, Va. Includes accounts; bonds; bill of sale, 1783. for slave; copy of appointment, 1772, of James Steptoe as clerk of Bedford Court; and copy of land grant, 1792. Also includes letter, 1876, of A. Granville Bradley describing the Shenandoah Valley and list, undated, of soldiers who served in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution with notes on the formation of Campbell County, Va. Land Grant of 300 acres in Bedford County, Virginia to Job Martin for payment of L1.10 sterling to the Treasury of the Commonwealth. Signed by Henry Lee, Governor. The materials that comprise this collection were donated by W. Mac Jones and Mrs. William C. Segar and obtained or purchased by W\u0026M Special Collections Research Center in batches between the period of 1927 and 1981.","Receipts and invoices to and from various individuals.  Some names include:  Mr. Beaver, John Berk, Mr. Pendleton, Thomas Pugh, Jack Steward, John F. Woods, Charles Dudley, Jeremiah, Moses Eubank, Jacob Wolf, Leroy James and others.","Scope and Contents Sally Phelps, aunt, Lynchburg, Virginia to Henry Bigger about purchasing a cow. Includes a registry receipt. August 6, 1884. Photocopy of a letter to \"Willie Dear\" (Mrs. L.B. Bigger of Bellevue, Bedford County) from unknown. July 29, 1886. D.W. Bigger to \"My Dear Brother\" (James H. Bigger) about receiving a photograph of him and about Christmas. December 3, 1894.","Correspondence includes a mix of people with no obvious connection to one another, though some letters deal with legal matters. December 24, 1841, Tazewell Headen, Floyd C.H. to ( ) Goggin, Atty at Law, Liberty. Concerns summoning witnesses. December 12, 1843, William Daniel, Jr. of Lynchburg, Virginia to Joseph Wilson, Clerk, Bedford, Liberty (Virginia) about McKinney and Walker repaying debt from Harris and the dismissal of a suit on the validity of Even Snead's will. February 6, 1847, Robert Davis of Lynchburg, Virginia to Joseph Wilson, Clerk of Superior Court of Bedford County with a request to make copies of a statement of debt in the case of Samuel E. White and William T. Smith (late merchants trading as White and Smith) vs four other men. February 12, 1858, Julie Clayton in Ivy Hill to her cousin about a party and marriages of acquaintances. November, 1879, Letter to \"Mr. ---(?)\" from \"Your friend only\" where the writer clearly states that having a relationship with him would bring her no joy and his attention would be in vain and \"our correspondence has closed. May your future life be blessed by a companion worthy of your efforts…Amen.\" March 11, 1889 and March 12, 1889, To \"My dear Susie\" (Mrs. William Bese) possibly from her mother in Chester, Virginia about news of family and friends. The empty envelopes are mostly addressed to the Clerk of the County Superior Court. Some names on the envelopes are A. B. Nichols, J.L. Edwards, Joseph Wilson, William M. Burwell, William Cook and others.","Scope and Contents 1869 and early 1900 receipts, one a United States Internal Revenue \"receipt for special tax\" for R.M. Dennis for a business of \"retail dealer ...liquor\" in Roscoe, St. Clair, Missouri for 1870. 1904-1909 letters to Mrs. E.M. Dennis of Bedford County, Virginia from other members of her family and E. Hilton Jackson, a Washington D.C. lawyer about a Claims Court case of (heirs of) Samuel Cline vs the United States where Samuel Cline says he lived in Rockingham County, Virginia but reports show he owned a Cline's Mill in Staunton, Virginia which sold \"large quantities of supplies to the Confederacy....\" The Samuel Cline heirs are claiming their father did not vote for secession and can prove his loyalty to the Union. Other family members include Cyrus Cline and Samuel Cline. Includes a carbon of a February 4, 1908 contract between \"the next of kin and heirs at law of Samuel Cline, deceased, and E. Hilton Jackson\" for Jackson's representation of the family during the claims case.","Scope and Contents A varied group of legal documents. Account sheet for Robert Fauster to Joel Terrell for 1750 with an 1769 note at the bottom by Chas Servis which states Terrell has \"received no satisfaction for the above ballance.\" On reverse, a note by Jacob Early states \"we the jewry find for the plaintiff...\" Payment to \"Sovereign Lord King George the third\" for an ordinary license for William Mead in Bedford County, Virginia with William Mead and Isham Talbot as witnesses. February 27, 1771. Indenture between Richard Muse and his wife and James Jones. Wythe County. May 10, 1796. Note on reverse spells \"Muse\" as \"Mary???\" Bond report by Thos Lumpkin. Some names mentioned: Boyce Eidson, Martin King, ? Chastain, Richard Lockett, Thomas Wood, Samuel Baker, Edward and William Eads, James Foster, George Wilson, Farthing Hix and other illegible names. undated. Flyer by Richard M. Young, Late Commissioner of the General Land Office with letterhead, \"General Agency at Washington City\" about \"Acts of Congress granting Pensions to soldiers and their widows for services rendered during the Revolutionary War\" with amendments to 1853. Addressed to Joseph Wilson, Clerk of Circuit Court, Liberty, Bedford County, Virginia. undated.","Mostly receipts for Edward Merriman for purchases, but includes a letter, a military record and a recipe for \"John M. Merryman's Cement Wash.\" May 24, 1850 letter to Edward Merriman, Liberty, Bedford County, Virginia from Joseph Anderson in Cincinnati, Ohio about the whereabouts and news of other members of the Merriman Family. December 15, 1898 document states that George S. Merriman was a Private in Company G, 2nd Regiment of the Virginia Volunteers who enrolled on June 24, 1898 to serve for two years and was discharged on December 18, 1898.  Notes that George S. Merriman was born in Batford (Bedford?), Virginia, 43 years of age, 5 foot, 9 and a half  inches tall, fair complexion, blue eyes, gray hair and a farmer. Signed by Ballard P. Hatcher, Captain, in Roanoke, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Poetry, prose and recipes written by different unknown people.  One \"editorial\" is about a tribute to the late Governor Kavanaugh of Maine.  Recipes include \"Sponge Pudding\" and \"Chow Chow Pickle.\"  Includes a headache remedy.","Related Collection: Mss. Acc. 2008.321 Berkeley County, Virginia (W.Va.) Tax Records","Letter from Charles J. Faulkner, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to the President of William and Mary, at Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning the name of Berkeley County. September 8, 1873. 1 item.","Bill of sale for $400, 1807, for the sale of a slave, Dick, by Henry Bowyer to John Robinson. Purchase. Charles Hamilton Auction in 1981.","Land Grant, 1803, for Nicholas Casper, in Botetourt County, Va. signed by Governor John Page (1743-1808).","Agreement, 1883 August 18, of George W. Parrish to sell to William Jackson a portion of the tract of land in Brunswick County, Va. called \"the Batt land.\"","Scope and Contents Papers, 1769-1951, relating to Buckingham County, Va. Includes a grant, 1769, of land to Samuel Megginson signed by Lord Botetourt ; indenture (deed) between Chambers and William Norvell, 1836; photograph, 1951, of the Bolling Family of \"Rosney,\"; and accounts and correspondence of the post office at Gravel Hill , Mattie J. West, postmaster (10 items). The materials that comprise this collection were donated to W\u0026M Special Collections Research Center by Willam R. Cocke, Mrs. G. M. Kent, Mr. \u0026 Mrs. John Stone, and John D. Weaver in batches between 1940 and 1983. Finding Aid prepared by Cynthia B. Brown, 1983.","Scope and Contents Typed list, undated, of justices of the peace, 1782-1824, of Campbell County, Va.; and license, 1860, to marry of Edward Scott Payne and Anna Agnes Oliver. Gift of John Lawrence in 1997. Two court records, 1796 and undated, signed by Cha[rles]s and Williston Talbot. (Acc. 1997.31c).","Transcript of minutes, 1811-1814, of courts of enquiry of 26th Virginia regiment of Charlotte County, Va.; extract, 5 June 1833, from court records concerning death of John Randolph of Roanoke; and marriage license, 1823, of Robert Carrington and Joanna T. Bouldin. Typed list of Charlotte County names from about the mid 1700's with notes on Mathis Flournoy and John Prior. Cub Creek Church Memorial program. 1938.","Scope and Contents Papers relating to Chesterfield County, Va. Includes such items as extracts from county records; lawsuits (Vestry of Parish of Manchester v. Overseers of the Poor); commission, 1756, signed by Robert Dinwiddie appointing justices to try slave for burglary; deed; agreement (concerning Gallego Mills); and a broadside, undated, concerning proposed removal of court from Manchester to Chesterfield Court House. Item level inventory available at Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Greenway Court.","Copy of the will of Robert Hudson, 1866, with codicil dated 1872 (1 piece). Copy of a court order to pay Richard I. Tull for his services as sheriff. 1830. (1 piece). Court order to pay Walter (?) for public services. 1830. Typed manuscript \"A Culpeper Census of 1781\" by A.L. Keith. 37 pages. 1941.","Ledger, 1841-1844, of a grist mill in Culpeper County, Virginia. Includes lists of customers and what the bought, typically wheat and flour. People could also bring their own material and have it ground; the material and the price for grinding is listed in the ledger. Also includes entries for a bill for a cabin for slaves and flour for slaves. 1 item. Purchase. Mss. Acc. 2011.563.","Papers, 1830-1910, relating to Cumberland County, Va. Includes such items as copies of court orders, 1830, to pay George H. Matthews for service as prosecutor for Commonwealth and S. H. Panack for services as jailor; receipt, 1910, for taxes; plat, 1842, for land owned by Edward Steger; and a newspaper clipping, 1893 October 1, from the Richmond Dispatch. Gift of John Lawrence. Two court documents, one dated 1797, signed by James Morton. (1997.31e)","Certificate of Appointment, 1828, of William H. Broadnax, William Wynne, and Edward S. Pegram as commissioners to superintend election of electors for U. S. president and vice president in Dinwiddie County, Va.; and copy of court order, 1830, to pay James Scott for his services as jailor. Cotton circular for Martin, Hill and Co. in Petersburg, Virginia. September 22, 1886.","Deed, June 21, 1773, from Israel Morris to Michael Goen for 100 acres of land in Dunmore County (Shenandoah County), Virginia.","Photostats of a petition presented by certain residents of Elizabeth City County to the General Assembly of Virginia, November 30, 1803, in opposition to the proposal to combine the Eaton and Syms charity schools into one school. Photostat of a petition presented by certain residents of Elizabeth City County to the General Assembly of Virginia, December 19, 1803, requesting that the Eaton and Syms charity schools be combined into one school.","Typescript of a history of Hampton and Elizabeth City County, Va., entitled \"The First Plantation,\" by Marion L. Starkey, ca 1930s. Includes an incomplete index in a separate green book.","Typed extracts, 1663-1791, from Old Rappahannock County [now Essex County.] Extract from a vestry book of Albemarle Parish, Sussex County. 1788. A handwritten list (probably a copy) of a list of names for \"Rose and Gabriel Penn, given under our hands...November 3rd, 1788,\" with a note on reverse \"Subscription for St. Marks Church.\" Another note says this page found in a vestry book in Albermarle Parish on November 26, 1926. Transcript of letter from Hugh Rose, at Geddes, to Col. James Higginbotham about sellling land of Brother Moses, deceased. 24 March 1791. Original order to the Sheriff of Essex County to take James Daniel and James McCall for a court appearance in William Roane vs Daniel and McCall. Signed John Lee. May 30, 1755. (Gift of Benjamin A. Grady). August 23, 2000 letter to Mrs. Harold Little, owner of Clydeside, from H. Franklin Minor, about the McCall Family and ownership of Clydeside.","Ground plan of Woodlawn, home of Nellie Custis Lewis, in Fairfax County. In ink on tracing cloth.  19 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches.  1 piece.","Scope and Contents Papers, ca. 1743-1793, relating to Fairfax County, Va. Includes notes, concerning register of Pohick Church; newspaper clipping, concerning court record book of Fairfax County; survey, 1841, of tract of land; and plan, undated, of \"Woodlawn,\" home of Nellie Custis Lewis; court records, 1743-1783; and an account book, 1793, of Joseph Birch, keeper of Turnpike Number 2, which has two entries, 9 October 1792 and 13 April 1793, concerning George Washington. 1963 gift from Mrs. Marion S. Mallory. 17 items. Postcards of Old Court House, published by Ernest L. Robey's Drugstore. 3 items. Undated.","Copy of tax list, 1782-1799, for Fauquier County, Va.. Court order, 1830, to pay James English for his services as jailor and for cleaning and furnishing firewood and candles for the courthouse. Catalogue of Fauquier Institute for Young Ladies. Session 1892-93. Owned by Miss E. Chappelear.","Land grant, 15 May 1780, given to Samuel McDowell for 1,000 acres of land in Fayette County, Va. [W.Va.] signed by Patrick Henry. For those interested in Patrick Henry see the Patrick Henry Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Broadside, 12 July 1941, advertising July 12 as the day for all citizens over thirteen years of age to register as volunteers for the civil defense program in Fluvanna County.","Note on document: \"…record book…is no longer public property, the original book being in private hands…\" Typed carbon copy of \"The History of Rivanna Parish in the County of Fluvanna, Virginia\" by Louis H. Stoneman. 1847- 1912. Pamphlet with the Charter and By-Laws of the State Bank of Columbia. 1900. An advertisement of the Commissioner's sale of Upper Bremo Tract where Mary B. and Lelia B. Cocke lived. 1926. The Midland Virginian, Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia article, \"Old receipts show that Fluvanna farms tithed to aid Confederacy.\" February 13, 1941. Notebook called \"Weather Report\" where the daily weather conditions were recorded. 1886-1887.","Invoices, receipts, accounts, laden lists, letters and other accounting documents from merchants in Columbia, Virginia. 1880-1910. 465 pieces. Merchants include: Jenkins and Foster, William B. Perkins, John F. Shepherd, Stoneman Brothers, Dr. Philip J.Winn, and George T. Zachary.","Scope and Contents Invoices, receipts, accounts, laden lists, letters and other accounting documents from merchants in Columbia, Virginia. 1880-1910. 465 pieces. Merchants include: Jenkins and Foster, William B. Perkins, John F. Shepherd, Stoneman Brothers, Dr. Philip J.Winn, and George T. Zachary. (Related material: 65 Sh5 Shepherd and Patton Papers). Broadside for \"The Celebrated Horse-Tamer Prof. W. Rouzer will give a lecture on ...June 7th...\" Certificates from residents of \"Kent's Store, Fluvanna County, Virginia, Oct. 2nd 1876\" who have taken the lectures are listed. Names listed are from Fluvanna, Pittsylvania and Charlotte Counties.","Article on John Hartwell Cocke. 2010. Acc. 2010.605.","Folders 1 - 5 are papers, 1772-1800, (group of 481 pieces) relating to 178 suits in Franklin County, VA and 16 other papers. Some papers are fragments. 481 pieces. The spelling of names varies greatly and as it was found to be impracticable to give all forms of each name, one spelling only is shown. The materials donated by John Lawrence in 1991, by Fred Alouf in 1959, and obtained from Joseph K. Ruebush in 1938. Folder 6 contains later, unrelated accessions.","Work Projects Administration Writers' Program. \"The White Man Comes to Stay,\" \"War Whoops in the Wilderness,\" and \"Explorers in the Wilderness.\" 1941. Two court documents signed by James Callaway. 1797. Mss. Acc. 1997.31f. 28 copies of certificates saying people attended the September New London District Court, signed by James Steptoe, Clerk of the Franklin County District Court. 1797. Includes 4 fragments. Names include: John Arthur, Moses Greer, Luke Standefer, Richard Goggin, Samuel Patterson, John Cheetwood, Charles Lumsden, Thomas Haile, Shelton Brown, Shelton Taylor, Joel Chitwood, William Cheetwood, Lewis Turnbull, William Boswell, James Prunty, Thomas Towler, Lewis Davis, John Hayle, George Ferguson, Dudley Lumsden, Benjamin Griffith, John Houle and Thomas Fowler. Mss. Acc. 1997.52","Scope and Contents Documents concerning land (deeds and list of lands returned as delinquent); proceedings, 1812, of meeting held at Winchester; and advertisement, undated, offering the Marlbro' Iron Works for sale or rent. 5 items.","Scope and Contents The original 1938 accession were papers relating to Gloucester Count, 1660-1878, and taken from the William Carter Stubbs Papers (I). They were purchased from Charles F. Heartman. They comprise Boxes 8, 9 and 10, folders 1-28. Includes letters, accounts (many concerning estates), legal documents, tax lists, marriage licenses and military records (including orders, 1815 and 1820 appointing patrollers to visit slave quarters). Many items concern the Baytop and Stubbs families. 2134 items. Letters, 1774-1878, filed chronologically. Invoices, receipts, etc. filed alphabetically under name of person or estate. The remaining boxes contain later accessions. Notes and photocopies relating to Gloucester County during the Revolution collected by Joanee Ryan in preparation for M.A. thesis (Mss. Acc. 1988.24). Photostat copy of transcript of \"Gloucester County, Virginia Places and Names\" by Charles E. Hatch, Jr. Yorktown, Virginia. September 15, 1979 (Mss. Acc. 1999.66). Photographs of and brochures of Gloucester County, plus correspondence of different families of Gloucester County about personal and legal matters, 1795-1953, donor unknown. John Buckner Reports, undated (Mss. Acc. 2008.193). Newspaper article on Wilbur Templeman a popular and longtime barber in Gloucester (Mss. Acc. 2010.575). Related material: See also \"A Guide to Gloucester County, Virginia Historical Manuscripts, 1651-1865\" (Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1976). For those interested in the Baytop family see the Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Item inventory in folder.","Item inventory in each folder.","Item inventory in folder.","Acra-Baytop. Item inventory in folder.","Baytop-Bridges. Item inventory in folder.","Baytop Family. Item inventory in folder.","Baytop Family. Item inventory in folder.","Bridges-Corr. Item inventory in folder.","Dame-Gloucester County School Commissioners. Item inventory in folder.","Hall-Kemp. Item inventory in folder.","Lawson-Nuttall. Item inventory in folder.","Oakes-Purcell. Item inventory in folder.","Ransone-Stubbs. Item inventory in folder.","Tabb-Wood. Item inventory in folder.","Papers of persons not included in folders 4-14. Inventory not available.","Two or more persons/families mentioned.  Unidentified pieces and fragments.  Includes an index of a ledger and five memorandum books.","1825 Court docket, records of official examinations of boundary lines (1825-1848, undated), copy of certificate appointing Peter Kemp and James Baytop processioners...sixth precinct (undated) and unofficial memoranda on cases (undated).","Amory-Ash.  Item inventory in folder.","Ball-Byrd. Item inventory in folder.","Campbell - DuVall. Item inventory in folder.","Edwards - Hughes.  Item inventory in folder.","James - Oliver. Item inventory in folder.","Pitt - Sutton. Item inventory in folder.","Item survey in folder.","Item inventory in folder.","Item inventory in folder.","Scope and Contents \"Gloucester County, Virginia Places and Names\"  (Mss. Acc. 1999.66)  First half of book.","Scope and Contents \"Gloucester County, Virginia Places and Names\"  (Mss. Acc. 1999.66)  Second half of book.","\"Story of Elmington\" by Polly Cary Legg. Possibly a Work Projects Administration Writers' Program story.  December 1, 1941.  Photographs of Grace Church and The Glebe. Donation ticket for Ware Church, 1953, and a Christmas Card with picture of Ware Church. Photographs of \"New Bottle\" House, Undated.  Photograph of \"Painting of Gloucester from the Water\", courtesy of Mariner's Museum.  Conservation State Organization rules and regulations, undated.  \"Programme at the Laying of the Cornerstone and the Unveiling of the Monument,\" 1889.  Brochure on \"The Belle Roi Female School\" in Gloucester, Virginia, 1855.  Facts about Gloucester, copy, undated.","1795 and 1796 - Indenture between Thomas Whiting and Mary his wife of Gloucester and John Singar of Norfolk, Virginia on July 1, 1795,  Plat of land of William DuVal for John Singar.  June 15, 1796 1801, 1802 and 1804 -  Document binding John Thruston of Abington Parish, Gloucester County, to Sarah Tabb, who is relinquishing her right of dower, for land of John Stephens, September 2, 1801.  Indenture between Edward Busbie, Senior of Abington Parish, Gloucester County and Benjamin Marnix for land in Gloucester County, January 4, 1802.  Indenture between Henry Whiting and William Singleton for land in Gloucester County, February 1, 1802.  Indenture between Richard Singleton and Nelly Thornton, his wife, of the County of Gloucester, and John Singar for land, April 2, 1804. 1810 -1825 and undated - Account of Estate of John Singar for 1810-1818.  Letter to Dr. William Taliaferro, Gloucester Court House, from Richard H. Johnson of Hanover County, Virginia concerning his claim against the Mr. Carter who was his tenant, May 31, 1822.  Receipt Book, bound with string, with names, amount of money received and reason, 1825.  Letter to Richard M. Segan, late Sheriff of Middlesex County, Virginia regarding taking money from Bogg's benefit in case against James Critten.  Undated. 1829-1857 - Letter to Walker Jones of Gloucester Courthouse from H. Wilkinson of Petersburg, Virginia about Mr. Stubblefield offering $150 for settlement of Wilkinson's business.  Lists 1829 and 1830 Rockingham Season accounts, March 31, 1834.  Letter to Miss H.B. Booth, Gloucester County, about an account, June 5, 1834. Article of Agreement between Alfred Billups, Gloucester County, and Jacob Vreeland of Bergen County, New Jersey for tract of land on York River in Gloucester County, October 6, 1834.  Letter from T.B. Whiting of St. Marks, Florida to M.C. Booth in Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia regarding accusation of debt, R. M. Thornton and A.L. Dabney, February 26, 1837.  Receipt for John W. Puller for items purchased from T.B. Taliaferro, 1856 and 1857. Thomas J. Banks Correspondence and Accounts, 1826-1838 - Two partial account books in the same handwriting as the William and Thomas Banks book.  William Banks is mentioned in one of them, 1826-1830.  Accounts of William and Thomas Banks, Oyster deposit on the River. Partial account book, 1833-1836.  Thomas T. Bailey of Baileysville, Tennessee to Thomas J. Banks about collecting and sending money that he was collected, July 23, 1835.  Letter to Thomas J. Banks of Gloucester, Virginia  from James M. Rasin and Company regarding wheat and repairing a Straw Cutler.    Includes Receipt and statement., September 17, 1835.  Letter to Thomas J. Banks of Gloucester, Virginia from Samuel Crane of Richmond, Virginia about the two negroes that were part of Banks' brother's estate.  John Carlton, deceased, is mentioned,  March 26, 1836.  Letter to Thomas J. Banks of Gloucester Court House regarding rent, December 5, 1836.  Letter from Robert Nicholas of Richmond, Virginia to Jefferson Stubbs of Gloucester County, Virginia regarding the suit in Henrico County, Virginia with T.J. Banks, administrator of John Banks, deceased, regarding two negroes, April 3, 1838. Christopher Jones Correspondence and Documents, 1824-1826 -  Note sent by John Field to the Courthouse for Christopher Jones or Thomas Banks about a receipt, July 31, 1824.  Letter to Christopher Jones of Gloucester County from H. Boggs of Baltimore, Maryland concerning settlement with a John Henry and Mr. Jones who is possibly the brother of Christopher Jones, September 13, 1825.  Indenture between Christopher T. Jones and Mann Page Trustees under a deed of trust between William Wilkins and Mann page and Christopher T. Jones to secure for to Thomas Smith and John Tabbs, September 5, 1825.  Letter to Christopher Jones about will that was proven October 3, 1808, with Henry Curry as the testator and Susanna Curry the Executrix and lists other cases.  The writer, from Richmond, Virginia,  also turns down offer to visit the area while extolling the pleasures of the rural setting, August 28, 1825.  Letter to Christopher Jones of Gloucester County from H. Boggs of Baltimore, Maryland concerning a settlement, December 1825.  Letter to Christopher Jones of Gloucester County from George Haskins concerning bringing to Chancery Court his suit against James Montague, Philip Montague, Thomas G. Cridington and Robert Dobbins, January 22, 1826. Kemp Family, 1825 and undated -  Letter to Christopher Jones of Gloucester County from Robert Tubman concerning suit against Peter Kemp, November 30, 1825.  Letter to William Browne Judge of the Chancery District of Williamsburg about Peter, Francis, William and Sarah Kemp against John Johnston, admr of Robert Kemp, deceased, Undated.","Carbon of typed notes on John Buckner (ca. 1630-1695) of Gloucester County, Virginia.  He brought the first press and printer, William Nuthead, to Virginia about 1680.  Prepared by Mary Goodwin, Research Department, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.  Typescripts of brief biographical sketches of John Buckner and his family from Tyler's Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography and an account of William Nuthead, from first printer in Virginia and Maryland, from J.C.Oswald, Printing in the America's.  13 pages.","Daily Press newspaper article, \"County Barber Still Cutting,\" about Wilbur Templeman and his barbershop. His daughter, Linda Templeman, worked in Swem Library, Government Documents.  August 9, 2009.","Patent for 4753 acres of land in Goochland County, Virginia granted by King George II to Michael Holland. 1744. On vellum. 13 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches. Signed by Lieutenant Governor William Gooch.","Papers, 1744-1832, relating to Goochland County, Va. Includes patent, 1744, to Michael Holland (signed by Gooch and granted by King George II); will, 1815, of Nathaniel Davidson; court order, 1830, to pay William Pope for services as prosecuting attorney; and document, 1831, concerning the lawsuit of the Commonwealth v. John N. Davis; letter, 1832, from Pleasant Turner to Archibald Bryce; and plat, 1839, of land owned by William Ford. Patent filed in Oversize. Court Docket to November 1795, list of all cases. Commonwealth vs. John N. Davis, 1831 Will of Nathaniel Davidson, 1815 Plat tract of land owned by William Ford, 1839 Oversize patent, for land, signed by Gov. Gooch, granted by King George II to Michael Holland, 1744 Court order to pay William Pope for services as prosecuting attorney, 1830 Letter, Pleasant Turner to Capt. Archibald Bryce, 1832 Court Docket to November 1795, list of all cases","They appear to be a general store, ordering food items, clothe, clothing, shoes, horseshoes, nails, tobacco and other items.  Their shipping address is Irwin's Station or Bula in Goochland County.  Over 120 items. 1882-1883. Court Summons.  Names mentioned:  William Southworth, J. Clemens, Jos. Bullock, William Johnson, Julian Martin, Lucy Randolph, Anderson Matthews and S.W. Mason.  5 items.  1853. Archibald D. Perkins Accounts.  One receipt from Lucy Randolph.  39 items. 1836-1893. Typed carbon copy of a biography of Benjamin Waller and letters of Benjamin Wood.  Undated. Related items:  MsV Ame18  B. R. Cowherd Ledger","Copy of survey, 29 September 1804, of land in Greenbrier County Va. [W.Va.] for heirs of William Humes and surveyed by Alexander Welch.","A typed list of voters for 1800. Court order to pay William Faulkner for his services as sheriff.  1829.  copy. Court order to pay Samuel Pointer for his services as sheriff.  1830.  copy.","Deed (mutilated), 1727, from John Guess to Thomas Denton for land in Hanover County, Va.; receipt, 187[?] for taxes to Joseph Henry; and appeal, 1894, for aid in building a church in a needy neighborhood, with a list of names of contributors attached. Title page, with a photograph of the Clay house, from \"Life and Speeches of Henry Clay.\" 1843. Signature on front page: Mattie R. Feild, Millbrook, Virginia, 1886. Photostat copy of town lot layout of Hanover along the Pamunkey River with a tax list of names. March 17, 1738 or 39.","Scope and Contents Ledger, 1917 of a store in Studley, Hanover County, Virginia, recording purchases made by various customers. Customers' names are listed, and occasionally their town or county. A more detailed description is provided by the seller:  \"Ledger is a Eagle Flat Opening Book No. 895 (sold by Reinbach \u0026 Schwartz Stationers, Richmond, Va.). Measures: 8 1/4\" x 12 3/4\" x 1 1/4\",  287 pages.  This Ledger begins in May, 1917 and ends December 7, 1917.  Entries such as: Miss Ellen Timberlake, 2 Loaves of Bread .10;    Babes Bowles, 2 Cultivator Teethe .50, 1 Plow Point .16;  Mrs. Austin, 1/2 Plug Tobacco  .05\" \"On Page 158 it has a stamp on it: Do your bit! BUY A LIBERTY LOAN BOND, Inquire at any Bank or Post Office. Several Pages are Stamped (with a Postage Stamper): Studley, Va. (date).\" \"There are entries for food products, farm supplies, coca cola, tobacco, coffee, oil, medicine, etc.....\" Purchased.","Hardy County is now part of West Virginia.","Deed, 1858, from Westfall Garret to Henry Richmond covering a tract of land in Hardy County, Va. [W.Va.]. Court documents signed by Ed Williams, Clerk, 1797. Donated in 1997 by John Lawrence.","Portion of printed list, 1831, of land returned as delinquent for taxes in Harrison County [W.Va.]","Scope and Contents Papers, 1726-1871 and undated, relating to Henrico County, Va. Includes land patent, deeds, documents concerning lawsuits, estate document, and receipt for fee for apprehending a slave. 14 items.","Order, 1784, to the sheriff of Henry County, Va. to call jurors in the lawsuit of Commonwealth v. Anderson McGwire in the Virginia General Court.","Photocopy of a booklet, \"Fork Boykin\" compiled by Miss Genie Cory. Undated. Photograph of St. Luke's Church. Undated.","Index or register of names in a ledger divided alphabetically with tabs. Names include first and surnames, men and women, and all have a number noted beside them. There is no location or date or purpose noted on the register, but by using census data, the register was created circa 1900 and probably in the Isle of Wight County area of Virginia. Medium Oversize.","An artificial collection of material, 1687-1924, relating to James City County, Virginia. Includes copies of court records, farm censuses, tax receipts, church brochures, and photographs. Box 12 and 13 are mostly a gift from Robert T. Slater.","Blueprints of tracts of land in James City County. Carlton Casey land in Jamestown District, surveyed November 6, 1950; William Washington Estate, surveyed October 26, 1951; Mrs. Bessie Carmine property on Old Jamestown Road, surveyed September 2, 1940; Plat of subdivision of portion of Sarah Jones Tract, surveyed April 9, 1948; Survey of Bush Neck Road, Rye Patches and Wallace's Tract, surveyed June 1939; Frederick J. Keck farm in Stonehouse District, surveyed October 1937; Indigo Dam, estate of William Allen Jones, decd, in Jamestown District, surveyed October 1931; Rollo Subdivision, surveyed on November 26, 1930; Stephen's Tract #2, J.W. Penick the owner, in Stonehouse District, surveyed May, 1926; Timberlake Property, surveyed April 23, 1930 and Walthal Tract, surveyed June 1928.","1687 August 8. Copy of will of John Holder, deceased. Proved at the County Court held at James City, 8 August 1687 by the oaths of John White and Dorothy Peach. Recorded by W. Edwards, Cl[erk of] Co[u]r[t]. 1 page. Photostat of Document Signed.","Scope and Contents Copy of a law enacted by General Assembly, 17 February 1644, prohibiting desertions of plantations that have been seated; persons deserting their plantations are not to burn their houses but will receive as many nails as were expended in building them. Signed by William Robertson (d. 1739) Cl[er]k Gen[era]l Ass[emb]ly [from 1702-1738]. 1 page. Document Signed.","1805 February. Copy of pages from a court record signed by Ro[bert] B. Armistead. \"Found among the ruins of the old Court House at Williamsburg, Va. 1864.\" 2 pages. Copy of Document Signed.","1813 February 12. Copy of advertisement in the Richmond Enquirer for the rent or lease of the Greenspring Estate. 1 page. Typewritten Copy of Newspaper Clipping.","1820 September 1. Census record of James City county for 1820. Signed by Rich[ar]dson Henley, assistant to the Marshal. (Note reads \"From Lib. of Cong.\") 1 page. Photostat of Document.","1827 June 30. Copy of Complaint brought by Archer Hankins, late sheriff of James City and Committee of the esate of James Banks, deceased, against William Gregory, sheriff of King William County, appointed to represent William Gregory, Christopher Johnson, Ann Dudley, G. R. Lambert Meredith, Martha Bingham, Julia Bingham, Jno. Bingham, Geo. Bingham, [?] Lambert (wife of Eugene Sullivan), and Stephen Bingham, the heirs of Stephen Bingham. Concerns a tract of land in James City county called \"Mount Folly.\" 3 pages. Document Signed.","1847 May 6. Memorandum of deed of trust executed on 21 Sep[tember] 1841 is filed as an exhibit in the Chancery Suit in the Supr[eme] Court of James City County and City of Williamsburg by Upshur's executors vs. Pryor and others. Signed by P. P. Mayo. Fragment. Document Signed.","1849 January 19. Copy of advertisement in the Richmond Enquirer of the Hickory Neck Academy, James City County, Virginia. 1 page. Typewritten Copy of Newspaper Clipping.","1882-1893 and undated. Tax receipts, James City County, Virginia of Alexander Preston and Alfred Epps and a few miscellaneous receipts. Printed Document Signed. (13 items).","Scope and Contents 1896 June 1. \"The James City Cavalry, Its Organization and Its Service.\" (Company H, Fifth Regiment, mustered into service 22 May 1861). From \"Our Confederate Column\" in the Richmond Dispatch. Newspaper clipping.","1928 February 12. Bulletin from the Mount Vernon M. E. Church, South, Toano, Virginia. H. Conrad Blackwell, Pastor. 4 pages. Printed Material.","1929 June 30. Church Bulletin of Five Forks Church, Old Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, Virginia. Rev. James M. McKnight, Pastor. 4 pages. Printed Material.","1946 October 6. Invitation to Homecoming Day at James River Baptist Church, J. E. Bowman, Pastor. 1 page. Typewritten Copy.","1948 July 27. Letter. Mrs. William Lawrence Gatewood at New York to Brantley Henderson, Jr. at Williamsburg, [?] house and lot, and a store in Toano, Virginia. 4 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.","No Year. June 27. Program from Our Saviors Lutheran Church, Norge, Virginia in honor of the visit of the Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess of Norway. 1 page. Typewritten Copy.","Undated. Program of The County Council of Women's Clubs presenting \"Days in James City County from 1609 to 1817.\" 1 page. Printed Material. (3 items).","Undated. Bulletin of Hickory Neck Church, Blissland Parish, Toano, James City County, Virginia. 2 pages. Printed Material.","Undated. Brochure of the James City County Chamber of Commerce, Toano, Virginia. 2 pages. Printed Material.","1920. Economic Survey for James City County 1920 Census. 1 page. Typewritten Document.","1923 October 9. S. H. Hobbs, Jr., Rural Social Science, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. to Miss Mabel Massey, County Home Demonstration Agent, Williamsburg, Virginia. Is sending bulletin compiled from information secured in a survey of the townships in Chatham Co. [N. C.] and a bulletin on Johnston Co. [N. C.]; discusses types of surveys used by his department. 2 pages. Typewritten Letter Signed.","1924 February 12-13. Program of the Peninsula Farmers Institute. 1 page. Printed Material.","Scope and Contents Undated. \"A Glimpse of the Progressive School System of James City County\" by H. L. Harris, Supt. of Schools. 7 pages. Typewritten Document.","Undated. \"Health Conditions in James City County.\" 4 pages. Typewritten Document.","Scope and Contents Samples of typed farm census forms from other locations in 1923: Chowan County, North Carolina; Henderson County, North Carolina; Hertford County, North Carolina; Madison County, North Carolina; Nash County, North Carolina and North Carolina 1923 farm census (blank form. 4 pages). Blank survey on \"Farm Home Conditions\" from Pittsylvania Co., Virginia (2 pages). Sample form for farm census (3 pages). Survey of Whitmell Community made by Rural Sociology Class (3 pages).","Undated. Farm survey, James City County. 8 pages. Printed Material. (17 items).","Undated. Farm survey, James City County. 8 pages. Printed Material. (17 items).","1922 June 13. Johnston County: Economic and Social (a Laboratory Study in the Rural Social Science Department of the University of North Carolina) by W. M. Sanders, Jr. and G. Y. Ragsdale.","1922 October. Economic and Social Survey of Albemarle County, University of Virginia Record Extension Series, vol. VII, No. 2.","1922 November 16. How Farm Tenants Live by J. A. Dickey and E. C. Branson. University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 47 pages. Printed Material.","1923 Virginia Agricultural Census, U. S. Department of Agriculture co-operating with the State Department of Agriculture. 32 pages. Printed Material.","Scope and Contents Colonel William Allen House (P1), formerly owned by Miss Fanny Allen and later owned by Mr. Mercer Taylor. Four miles west of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Ashland Farm (P2), formerly owned by Captain William Morecock. Located at Diascond station. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Binn's Place (P3), located west of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Carter's Grove (P4), home of Mrs. Archibald McCrea. South of Williamsburg. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Carter's Grove (P5), home of Mrs. Archibald McCrea. South of Williamsburg. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Carter's Grove (P6). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Carter's Grove (P7). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Carter's Grove (before restoration) (P8). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents \"Cowlesville\" (P9), original home of the Cowles family. Owned by C. C. Cowles. Located on Rt. 603 just north of Rt. 610, six miles west of Toano on the Old Forge Road (much remodeled). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Curtis Home (P10). Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Curtis Home (P11). Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Edwards Place (P12), owned by Mrs. Marcus Cottrell. Located four miles northwest of Toano at the intersection of Rt. 601 and Rt. 603. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Gatewood Place Kitchen (P13), owned by C. Ordway. Located one half mile west of Toano on Forge Road. Now destroyed. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Green Spring (P14), ruins of the second house at Green Spring, built about 1800. The foundations of the Sir William Berkeley house at Green Spring are south of this house about two hundred yards. Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white. Undated.","Scope and Contents Green Spring (P15), aerial view. Photographic print, 7\"x9\". Undated.","Scope and Contents Green Spring (P16), aerial view. Photographic print, 7\"x9\". Undated.","Green Spring (P17), aerial view. Photographic print, 9¼\"x11¼\". Undated.","Scope and Contents Grove Hill (P18), built by John Cowles in the 1830's. Later owned by Mr. C. C. Cowles. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Hankins Family House (P19), owned by the Hankins family. Later owned by Mr. E. K. Pettit. Old house at Six Mile Ordinary, Rt. 60. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Harris House (P20), owned by Harris estate. Located about six miles southwest of Lightfoot and ¾ miles west of Jolly's Mill Pond. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Harris House (P21), six miles southwest of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Harris House (P22), owned by Mr. James Harris. Located about seven miles southwest of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Hickory Neck Episcopal Church (P23), on Rt. 60 above Toano. This is only part remaining of the original church which was built about 1733. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Hockaday Place (P24), owned by B. S. Bowmer. Located about one mile and a half west of Diascund Bridge. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents James' Place (P25), former home of Colonel George James. Later owned by Mr. P. H. Richardson. Located approximately four miles north of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Captain George Lee House (P26), owned by Captain Lee of Newport News.  Located north of Croaker.  Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view.  Undated.","Scope and Contents Lombardy (P27), home of Littleton Waller. Later owned by Mr. Branch Martin. Located west of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents MacDowell's (P28), owned by the Barnes estate. Located about four miles north of Toano on the road leading from the Forge Road to the Williamsburg-Richmond stage road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Martin Home (P29), owned by Miss Williana Wilkinson. Located about half a mile west of Toano on the Forge Road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Martin Home (P30), owned by Miss Williana Wilkinson. Located about half a mile west of Toano on the Forge Road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Martin's Place (P31), two miles northwest of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Olive Branch Christian Church (P32), one and a quarter mile southeast of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Pierce's (P33), located at Toano. This was originally \"Taylor's\" but prior to the Civil War was bought by Mr. Felix Pierce. There were three cemeteries on the place, one belonging to the Taylor family and two so old that no one recollects who was buried in them. After the Pierces died, this place was bought by Mr. Wesley Marston. The chimney and foundations are the only parts of the original house left which bear evidence of early eighteenth century construction, the chimney being laid in Flemish bond on flat side, and English bond on front and back surfaces. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Pinewoods (P34), home of Warburton family. As it appears before it was partially destroyed by fire. Photographic print, 8\"x10\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Pinewoods (P35). Photographic print, 8\"x10\", black and white, showing a rear view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Poplar Grove (P36), Wynne Place. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Powhatan (P37), once owned by Doctor Martin. Later owned by E. M. Slauson. Located a few miles west of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Powhatan (P38), once owned by Doctor Martin. Later owned by E. M. Slauson. Located a few miles west of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Redwood Ordinary (P39), now known as Green Shingle Inn. The present structure was built about 1790 to replace the old burned ordinary. Owned originally by the Redwood family, but subsequently bought by the Slater family. Served almost continuously as a tavern. Located at the intersection of the Forge Road and the Williamsburg-Richmond Stage Road in Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Old Richardson House near Croaker (P40). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents River View (P41), former home of the Norvell family. Later owned by Mr. Herbert Bloomberg. Located on York River about eight miles east of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Slater Place (P42), owned by R. V. Timberlake. Located about five miles northwest of Toano on road from Forge Road to Doncastle's Ordinary on the Williamsburg-Richmond Stage Road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Stuart Place (P43), owned by E. C. Stuart. Located about a mile and a half northwest of Diascund Bridge. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Summer House (P44), owned by Mr. Slater. Located about three miles south of Chickahominy Church on \"Old Brick Mill Road.\" Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Summer House (P45). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a rear view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Vaiden Family House (P46), located at Norge. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Warrenton (P47), known in the past as Rutleigh. Acquired early in the 19th century by the Warren family. Later restored by the Grantham family. Later owned by Mr. Dozier. Located about five miles west of Toano on Forge Road, facing Windsor Castle. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Warrens (P48), owned by the Warren family. Located about four miles west of Toano, just off the Forge Road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Watkins House (P49), owned by J. B. Larson. Later owned by [?] Peterson. Located three and half miles east of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents White Hall Tavern (P50), home of the Geddy family. One and a quarter miles north of Toano. In the interior are a very fine staircase and much early woodwork. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Windsor Castle (P51), home of William Bush. Owned by Mrs. William Walker Ware. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Unidentified House (52). Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Unidentified House (53). Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents One booklet: \"Sheriffs of James Citty Countie\" by Barbra M. Cook, Subsheriff, 1994. Gift of Barbra M. Cook, deputy sheriff of James City County via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association. Postcard of Green Shingle Inn, Toano, with a copy of a newspaper article about the Inn which was destroyed in 1963. Copy of a photograph of the hotel near the Powder Magazine, ca. 1900 and a photocopy of photograph of students at Matthew Whaley School. Individuals are identified.","Photostat copies of James City County petitions, beginning in the 18th century.","Jefferson County is now a part of West, Virginia. See related collections: Mss. MsV I1 Jefferson County, W. Va. Merchant's Index, Mss. Acc. 2008.320 Jefferson County, Virginia (W.Va.)Tax Records","List (printed), 1831, of land returned as delinquent for taxes in Jefferson County, Va. [W.Va.]","Bill of sale, 1796, for a slave sold by Robert Hoskins to John Mundell in King and Queen County, Va.Gift of John Lawrence. Three court documents, 1796 and undated, two signed by Ro[bert] Pollard, clerk. (Mss. Acc. 1997.31b). July 1967 \"Bulletin of the King and Queen County Historical Society.\" Agreement between Nicholas Dillard and Polly Browning for 95 acres in King and Queen County. February 11, 1792. (transferred from Gloucester County).","Typed copy of a rent roll, 1769 and copy of a court order, 1830, to pay Lawrence W. Berry for his services as Commonwealth's Attorney","Fragment of the will, 1705, of [?] Clayborne; typed extracts from a tax book, 1815 (65 typed sheets); copy of petition, 1843, from citizens of county to General Assembly of Virginia concerning the disposal of land in the county and a memorandum, 1863, signed by John Letcher concerning the arrest of a slave charged with attempted murder. 4 items.","Scope and Contents Leaflet written by Ann Harrison Booker Darst, \"Parson Skyring\" The Rev. Henry Skyring, 1729-1795, A tribute on the 200th anniversary of his death in 1995. Gift of Ann H.B. Darst. (Acc. 1998.36). Photographs used for the July 1938 William and Mary Quarterly article, \"Homes in the County.\" Daily Press book review of \"A History of Virginia Pioneer Papermakers\" with emphasis on the paper mill in West Point. Programs for the 250th founding of King William County, April 1952. Brochure on King William County, with notes. ca 1960. (Acc. 2008.193)","Typed transcriptions of pew rental lists: 1721 and 1748, for Christ Church Parish; 1750, for [St. Mary's] White Chapel Parish and a newspaper clipping, 13 February 1936, from the Rappahannock Record on the history of St. Mary's White Chapel by Elizabeth Comps Pierce. 4 items. Photographs from 1937: \"Bewdley,\" Lancaster Courthouse (Lancaster Post Office and former jail), Overseer's house on the Black Stump Quarter of Robert Carter's Corotoman Plantation (Weems Post Office), Sipes House (Lively Post Office) and Armstrong House (Palmer Post Office).","Copy of court order, 1830, to pay Edward Campbell for his services as Commonwealth's Attorney for Lee County, Va.","Typed copy of an advertisement in the Daily National Intelligencer, Washington, September 30, 1814, by James Monroe concerning sale of land; letter, 1863, from George K. Fox of Campbell Court House, Virginia, to L.W.S. Hough at Leesburg about Loudoun County bonds; booklet, July 1, 1861, containing names of purchasers of Loudoun County bonds numbered 1-358 and executed copies of July1, 1861 bonds, numbered 361-370 and 387-400 of Loudoun County. 24 pieces. And photograph of site of home of John Champe.","Tax list (tithes, land and carriages), 1769, for St. Martin's Parish (mutilated); document, 1852, in lawsuit of Spicer and Harris v. J. M. Macon, Jr., agent; papers in suits against J. and W.W. Beadles in 1852 and court orders, 1853-1854, to pay Robert T. Gooch for services as witness. 7 items.","Related material: Mss. MsV Lev10 Lunenburg County, Va. Docket, 1843E, Mss. MsV T3 Lunenburg County, Va. Sheriff's Tax Book, 1843","Copy of the will, 1817, of John T. Ravenscroft and accompanying papers and typescript of a letter, 1781, of D. C. Stokes, College Camp, William and Mary, to [Thomas] Nelson regarding Stokes' discharge.","Cumberland Parish Records Alphabetical order by subject. Church Matters J. H. Morrison to Dr. Perry regarding the Vestry and a Chimney. 1862. Correspondence B.M. Atkinson to his father about his Christmas plans. 1860. Thomas E. Locke to William J. Neblett enclosing papers on Buford's will, M. Forland's deed and other papers. Mentions R.B. Atkinson.1855. Financial – Correspondence, 1852-1868 Financial receipts, invoices, letters about the rector's salary. 38 items. 1852-1874. Financial – Taxes Receipt for taxes paid to the Sheriff of Lunenburg. Most are property taxes on 197 acres of land. 17 items. 1856 to 1869. 17 items. 1856-1865. Financial – Treasurer's Reports. 1847-1874. 16 items. Financial Matters – Bonds, Bills, Invoices, Subscriptions, Receipts and Taxes. St. John's Church and others. 35 items. 1848-1904. Some names mentioned: William H. Perry, Treasurer of the Parish; L.J. James E. Davis, Roger B. Atkinson, J.H. Morrison, Roger B. Atkinson, J.J. Deshazer, George Southall, Rev. Thomas E. Locke, Rev. Henry Wall, Rev. J. L. Sothoron, W.S. Watkins, Anderson Stewart, Harrison J. Elden, W.W. Webber, John. S. Hansbrough, Neblett Family, Colonel Sheets, Charles Smith, Mrs. John T. Merryman, Alice Ingram,W.G. Marshall, treasurer of Parish by 1904 and others. Letter from Dr. Bird, Dinwiddie County, about preaching at St. John's Church at the invitation of Mr. Neblett. 1863. Legal Matters Correspondence between Dr. W.H. Perry and A. M. and Richard Nelson, Carrolton, Mississippi about the case, Kreatts vs. Creath where Richard Nelson is representing Dr. Perry in the suit to get payment on a note. 1856-1860:1877 Deed between Malcom Macfarland and Vestry of Cumberland Parish for 190 acres. 1840. Rectors Resignation letter of Rector Dr. J. H. Morrison. May 1863. Vestry Meeting notes and letters about job openings, position acceptance and declining and resignations. 1857-1863. Rectors – Thomas E. Locke Payment accounts for 1838-1854, plus resignation and salary dispute, 1855. Vestry Minutes 1842, 1856, 1857, 1862 and undated. Originally accessioned as 1939.224 as a gift from WH Perry, Jr.","Patent, 1759, granting 400 acres of land to John LeGrand (signed by Francis Fauquier).","Copy of court order, 1830, to pay Horace Stringfellow for his services as Commonwealth's Attorney; and deed of trust, 1932, given by Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover to William E. Carson, covering tracts of land in Madison County, Va. including Hoover's camp on the Rapidan River. Typed draft of an article, \"The Hebron Church Birth Register\" by Arthur L. Keith. 1934.","Volume 3.","Volume 1.","Volume 2.","News clippings about the records of early Mathews County. Ca. 1940. Letter from Ellen R.T. Lane in Woodstock, Virginia to her cousin about her Mother's boarding school. August 15, 1883.","Papers, 1772-1858, relating to Mecklenburg County, Va. Includes copies of court orders, 1830, to pay William B. Banks as Commonwealth's Attorney; William Townes as jailor, and Richard H. Walker as sheriff; church records (including certificate of baptism and letter of removal); marriage licenses, and notes concerning Revolutionary War soldiers, Native Americans and race horses. 17 items. Flyer from Charles B. Stuart, Randolph Macon College, about arrangements to \"…execute analyses of Soils, Marls, Guano, Minerals, \u0026c., and to impart instruction in Analytical Chemistry.\" Undated. Photocopies of flyers for an auction at Prestwould. May 24-25, 1946.","Patent granting 70 acres of land in Mecklenburg County to William Marrable. 1772. On vellum. 15 1/4 x 13 inches. 1 piece. Medium oversize.","Includes rubbing from binding of a Middlesex County record book; copy of orders, 1676, concerning provisions for soldiers to be sent out against Native Americans; copy of petitions, 1700, presented by the freeholders of Middlesex County to the House of Burgesses (from court record book); and copy of receipt, 1781, for supplies furnished by Philip Ludwell Grymes for public use. 4 items. Copies of blueprints of suggested original arrangement of the interior of the second Christ Church as built in 1714. 2 copies. 1938. Three articles on Middlesex County history by Carroll C. Chowning. 1932, 1934 and 1935. Notecard with a pencil sketch of the Christ Church altar.","Lists, 1832-1833, of land returned as delinquent for taxes.","Broadside, 1856, announcing the opening of the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs. Receipt for G.W. Lyle from Henry M. Conrad, Dr. Transfer, Livery, Feed and Sale Stable in Radford, Virginia.,","A list of lands and lots returned as delinquent, 1831. 4 p. 29 cm. Printed. 1 piece.","History, 1869-1931, of Liberty Spring Christian Church, Nansemond County, Va.; and copy of patent, 1663, granting 1850 acres of land to Richard Bennett. 2 items. Photograph of a map, \"The Lower Parish of Nansemond County, Virginia.\" Time period covered is late 1600's. Map made by J.H. Granbery in 1946.","Related material: Mss. MsV Lev11-12 Nelson County Va. Sheriff's Receipt Book, 1811-1837 Mss. MsV T4 Nelson County, Va. Tax Book, 1835 There is no material for Nelson County in the Virginia Counties Collection.","Scope and Contents Papers, 1865-1866 and undated, relating to New Kent County, Va. Includes license, 13 November 1866, to Dr. L. C. Crump to practice medicine and two tax receipts for Crump; receipts, 1865, for U. S. taxes to W. A. Patterson and W. W. Taliaferro; and photograph of St. Peter's Episcopal Church and the \"Criss Cross House.\" 9 items. Handwritten copy of letter from William Gooch to the Vestry of New Kent County recommending Mr. Thacker. Circa 1729/30. Family tree of Robert Christian and Mary Brown of Cedar Grove, New Kent County. 2 items.","Bond, 1862, of Isaac Bales of loyalty to the United States.","Copies of court orders, 1830, to pay William Barnard for his services as jailer and Mordecai Cooke for his services as sheriff and a bond, 1765, of William Harwood and Samuel Langley to Elizabeth Ashley. 3 items.","Legal papers, receipts, correspondence and financial records generated by Northampton County.","Concerning a contract to carry mail between Eastville and Norfolk.","Concerning the use of a horse.","Road construction","Debt suit","Gift of Dr. \u0026 Mrs. H. Norton Mason, 1965.","Copy (printed) of the inventory, 1674, of the estate of Ambrose Feilding of Wickocomoco Hall, Northumberland County, Va. 1 item.","Extracts, 1783-1786, from Ohio County, W. Va. records. 1 piece.","Papers, 1841-1920, relating to Orange County, Va. Includes documents, 1841, concerning lawsuit of Jeremiah Morton v. William C. Willis; and petition, 1920, of citizens of Orange County, Va. concerning the unveiling of a tablet to World War I dead. 4 items. Calling card advertisement for \"Stratford Fund\" tea at St. Thomas House.","Letter, 4 October 1817, from William S. Marye to inhabitants of valley lying between the Blue Ridge and the Massanutten and Fort Mountains concerning the formation of a new county [Page County.] 1 item.","Ledger, Page County, Virginia, 1889-1892, 730 pp., recording the sale of general merchandise to more than 100 individual customers and businesses. One of the customers was the Luray Caverns and Hotel Company. Alphabetical index in front of volume. Sampling of names mentioned in the ledger was provided by the seller: Luray Caverns and Hotel Company, George Lee, William Jenkins, Tannery, Captain W. H. Smith, YMCA Masonic Lodge, Reverend N. W. Hackley, Arlington Hotel Company, Joseph Zirkle, John W. Strickler, Reverend H. M. Wharton, William Rosser, George Carter, Washington Carter, Lee Washington, Marshal Baylis, John A. Jackson, Albert Johnson, William Mundy. 1 volume. Purchase.","Advertisement for sale of \"Fairystones.\"","Two newspaper articles written by Mary Lee Keister Talbot about early residents of South Fork and South Branch Valleys of the Potomac and a new interpretation of Fort Seybert, 2 April and 7 May 1937. 2 items.","A 1771 deed of trust from Tully Choice to James Smith and Company for a piece of land. A marriage license, November 16, 1859, between Reuben H. Carter and Mary M. Robertson and a marriage license, December 20, 1858, between James A. Witcher and Phebe C. Haley. 2 items.","Scope and Contents Inventory and appraisal of the estate of Josiah Marshall including the following: one negroe man, James, oats and corn, farm implements and tools, and blacksmith equipment, signed by Wm Moseley (?), Arthur Moseley (?), and Francis Lewis as appraisers, and signed as ordered and recorded by by Ab[new] Crump. October 20, 1791. 2 pp. A manuscript, \"The Genesis of Powhatan County in Virginia\" by Floyd B. Taylor. 2 items.1936. The materials in this collection were donated by Floyd B. Taylor in 1936 and purchased by W\u0026M Special Collections Research Center in 1981.","Copy of a typed transcription, with index, of vestry minutes of St. Patrick Parish, 1755-1774. Bond given by Joseph Bohan to Philemon Holcombe, March 28, 1788. Printed report \"Second Report of the Prince Edward Landmark Committee,\" 1928. Copy of a print of the Union Theological Seminary. Undated. Notes by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton from the Prince Edward County Courthouse on the prisons in the county. Appeared in the October 1937 William and Mary Quarterly. Notes copied by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton from the Prince Edward County Courthouse about Mr. Burks's buildings as part of a lawsuit between Woodson and Burks in 1767. Typed carbon copy of Declarations of James Pugh, James Moss, James Wooldridge, Peter Grigg and James Taylor about their participation in the Revolutionary War. Other notes concerning Revolutionary War claims. Correspondence between Dr. Earl Gregg Swem and W.S. Morton. 1936. Notes about Prince Edward County by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton. Mentions Richard Darfson, Peter Legrand, Dr. John Fisher, James Thackson, John Meadley, James Roberts, John Moore, Jr., Abraham Venable, Benjamin Augell, John Le Neve, John Bonds, Charles Anderson, Matthias Flournoy, John Pryor Smith, Charles Smith, Zachariah Leigh, Thomas Yuille and Michael McDearman. Dates covered are from mid to late 1700's. Notes taken in 1936.","Papers, 1866-1868, relating to lawsuits in Prince George County, Va. against Matthew W. Raney for debt. 3 items.","Papers, 1728-1752, relating to Prince William County, Va. Mostly documents concerning the settlement of estates but also includes copy of [quit] rent roll, 1738; document, 1752, concerning debt; and guardian's bond, 1743, for Thomas Young. Two items in this collection were donated by Mrs. Marion S. Mallory in 1963.","Papers, 1753-1865, concerning Princess Anne County, Va. Includes writ, 1753, to adjourn the county court of Princess Anne signed by Robert Dinwiddie (gift of Benjamin B. Burroughs) and license, 1865, of Richard H. Baylor, a Baptist minister, to perform marriage ceremonies. 2 items. Photographs of Communion silver of Old Donation Church, communion silver of the Eastern Shore Chapel, the Anthony Fentress house, the Eastern Shore Chapel and the Old Donation Church. 5 photographs.","Indenture between Augustine and Silvester Blidenbrough and Thomas Moss for land in Rappahannock County. January 23, 1661. Incomplete. Includes typescript. Medium Oversize.","Negative photostatic copy of a list, 1724, of African Americans instructed and baptized by John Garzia, minister of the parish of North Farnham. 1 item. Newspaper article on the frozen Rappahannock isolating the Northern Neck in Farnham, Virginia and about an old church in Farnham, Virginia. Newspaper article on the frozen Rappahannock isolating the Northern Neck in Farnham, Virginia and about an old church in Farnham, Virginia. Minutes of September 22, 1774 meeting of the Association of Richmond County \"for the choosing of a committee agreeable to the Seventh Resolve made and entered into by the delegates from the different countys in the Coloney of Dominion of Virginia on Williamsburg the first day of August last.\" (after 1st Virginia Conventon, Revolutionary War) Copy by LeRoy Peachy, Clk. Back of document, \"The meeting of the Association September 22, 1774 for choosing a committee for the County to watch...in defence of American freedom.\" Lists the people chosen for each area of the county.","Related Material: Mss. MsV V1 Poll book, 1782-1810, for election of delegates to the General Assembly from Rockbridge County, [Va.], Mss. MsV Lev14 Rockbridge County, Va. Justice of the Peace Judgement and Execution Book, 1838-1849, Mss. MsV Lev15 Rockbridge County, Va. Court Receipt Book, 1833-1855","Printed list of land and lots returned as delinquent for taxes, dated 1831. Includes lands and lots sold. 10 p. 30 cm. 4 copies. Printed copy of the will of Alexander Telford. 1790. 2 items. Eight licenses, 1800-1805, for 'ordinaries' in Rockbridge County, Va. for Alexander Shield, Christopher Clyee, Nicholas Spring, Win Bailey, Benjamin Darst, Daniel Windell, John Conkey and William Niblack. Deed between Sarah C. Bourland and James Walker, January 2, 1863. Legal documents signed by John Ruff and others in regard to a payment of debts. December 16, 1840 to September 3, 1849. 5 items. Sworn statements certifying commissioners to oversee voting sites in Rockbridge County for presidential election of 1860. 27 items.","Papers, 1770-1871, relating to Rockingham County, Va. Includes two deeds, 1828 and 1871; partial inventory and sale of personal property of James Dever; account book, 1860-1867, of John W. Minnich, a teacher; accounts of the board of school commissioners (including student names); and documents, 1770-1843, concerning lawsuits (including criminal cases and criminal cases involving slaves). 521 items. The lawsuit material begins with Box 19, folder 3 and is divided into two alphabetical groups which are organized by the main person in the lawsuit. The second group is in Box 20. These lawsuits contain various spellings of the participants' names, often two or three spellings in the same page.","Local Election Ballot. May 28, 1891. 2 items. Advertisement cards for Strayer and Lupton in Harrisonburg, Virginia, O'Ferrall and Patterson in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and W.J. Downs, \"Hides wanted.\" Undated. 3 items.","Copy of court order, 1830, to pay Edward Campbell for his services as Commonwealth's attorney for Russell County, Va. 1 item.","Copy of court order, 1830, to pay Jacob Lynch for his service as clerk of the court of Scott County, Va. Advertisement in Morgantown, Virginia for Dr. C.M. Lane's Improved Medical Remedies and Dr. Scott's White Circassian Liniment. 1855.","Broadside order sheet for vegetable seeds by Jonathan Wood of New Lebanon. 1833. Advertisement for a sewing machine by Hottel and Keller in Toms Brook, Virginia. Grocery list on the back. Undated. Advertisement by Strayer and Coffman for their \"Cheap Store\" in New Market, Virginia. March 31, 1810.","Documents, 1779-1819, concerning land transactions in Southampton County, Va. Purchased from Charles Hamilton.","Related material: Mss. Acc. 2008.319 Fredericksburg, Virginia District Court Ledgers, 1787-1840","Documents, 1798-1841, concerning Spotsylvania County, Va. Includes tax bill; legal receipt, 1799, for execution in the lawsuit of Charles Thompson v. Joseph Newton \u0026 John Day; and extracts, 1798, from the will of James Somerville. Campaign speech, handwritten and transcribed, by unknown. August 1788.","Copy of quit rent roll, 1724, for Stafford County, Va. Photocopy of May 8, 1974 Richmond Times-Dispatch article on old papers returned to Stafford County. Newspaper article on the price of negroes in Stafford County in 1722. 1881. Handwritten document (copy of an original) of \"An Act to Exempt Certain German Protestants in the County of Stafford from the Paiment of Parish Levies.\" 1730. Photographs of the Clerk's Office, Courthouse and the County Jail. Undated. Typed history of the Old Courthouse buildings. Undated. Copy of a map, \"Colonial Tidewater, Virginia. Undated.","Scope and Contents Papers, 1927-1939, relating to Surry County, Va. Includes list, 1927, of places in Surry County compiled by A. W. Bohannon; and printed tour guide, 1939, to places in Surry County conducted by Thomas Rolfe Branch, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Card advertising Wigwam Brand Virginia Hams. Undated. Transcribed records which relate to the expulsion of mercenary attorneys. Undated. March 1929 edition of \"Representative\" a newspaper of the Surry County Schools. Patent for Humphrey Baylis for 440 acres in Surry County adjacent to \"College Lines.\" Signed by William Gooch. December 1, 1740. Patent is a gift of Ethel D. Roberts, 1936.","Papers, 1776 and 1932, relating to Sussex County, Va. Includes copy of will, 177[8?], [mutilated] of John Clanton; and newspaper clipping, 1932, concerning court held in Sussex County, 18 July 1776, and considered the first court held under authority of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 2 items.","Collection relating to Warwick County, much of it concerning the Colonial era. Contains legal disputes, estate papers, court findings, petitions, correspondence, etc. Also contains correspondence relative to the Civil War and papers concerning the American Revolution and slavery. This collection has been microfilmed and is restricted to MICROFILM USE ONLY. NOTE: transcriptions of the colonial portion of the records are available in Richard Dunn: Warwick County, Virginia, colonial court records in transcription (F232 .W27 W3 2000 (Swem stacks and Swem Rare Books) and F232 .W27 W3 2008 (Swem Rare Books).","Undated items and photographs.","Scope and Contents 7 May 1659.  Will of Henry Jacksonn [sic] of Mulberry Island; divides his estate amongst son Henry, daughters Sarah and Dorothy, his wife's sons John and Emanuell [sic] Wills, also Emanuell's [sic] wife Elizabeth, his grandchildren Mary and Ann, and his wife Elizabeth Jackson; appoints Robert Pyland and Miles Cary overseers of his estate; witnessed by Robert Pyland, William Gwinett, and William Thomas.  1 p. 11 [Decem]b[e]r 1679.  Orders passed by the court of Warwick County; require a penalty of 400 pounds of tobacco to be assessed on the Owners of \"stone\" horses under fourteen hands allowed to run free in order to prevent the spoiling of the \"Breed of the Countrey\"; whereas \"we find...[the] Continuall destroying [of] our Stocks by Wolves\" a reward of 200 pounds of tobacco is offered for presenting a wolf's head before the magistrate; whereas \"we find...that there are diverse and ill minded people that carry gunns [sic] shooting and ranging upon any man's Land\" it is ordered that anyone carrying a gun on another man's property without the owner's permission shall pay a penalty of 200 pounds of tobacco and forfeit their gun; recorded by William Bolton.  1 p. These documents have not been microfilmed.","Deposition, 1794, taken in Washington County, Va., in the suit of Alexander Quarrier v. Robert Watkins in the Superior Court of Richmond County, Ga. and court order, 1830, to pay Edward Campbell for his services as Commonwealth's attorney for Washington County. Barter Theatre pamplet. 1949. Barter Theatre program for \"Margin for Error.\" 1940-41. Advertisement mailing for flour by Anderson and Shaffer of Hamilton, Ohio to J.B. Mongle and Son of Holston, Virginia. 1891.","Photostat copy of the Memorial of the committee of the County of West Augusta to the convention of the Colony of Virginia. [1774] and transcript. 1 piece.","Scope and Contents Papers, 1830-1878 and undated, relating to Westmoreland County, Va. Includes court orders, 1830, to pay clerk, jailor and sheriff; document, 1845, in lawsuit of William Teffey et al. v. Elizabeth M. Sutton; newspaper clippings; and a printed circular. Newspaper article on Yeocomico Church. Undated.","Printed list, 1831, of lands returned as delinquent for taxes in Wythe County, Va. Accessor's listing of property of Samuel Williams. Includes list of slaves and their ages, acreage, and dwelling house and outbuildings. April 1, 1815. (Mss. Acc. 2001.44)","Related publications:Charles Parish Register available published as Landon C. Bell, Charles Parish, York County, Va. Richmond: Virginia State Library Board, 1932.  There are slight discrepancies in words between the printed versions of the Charles Parish register and the manuscript copy at Swem Library and Bell re-arranged the entries. The original Charles Parish register is at the Virginia State Library. See ledgers, journals and family papers from York County, Virginia.","Plat of A.W. Hitchen's Farm, portion south of U.S. Parkway in Bruton District. Surveyed April 1938.","Scope and Contents Extracts, 1782-1788, from county records; copy of account, 1668, for funeral expenses of Thomas Foote; photocopy of will, 1775, of William Nelson; copy of newspaper advertisement, 1812, for sale of Bell-Field; and print, 1862, from a printed book of Wynn's Mill. December 10, 1942 letter to the Citizens of the Magruder Area from Carl W. Porter, Commander, of the Public Works Department, Naval Operating Base about building a camp for the Seabees and citizens needing to vacate their homes. York County Court House Agreement and Origin. Undated, but after 1941. Indenture between Henry Graves and William Allen for York County land. Original. July 13, 1790. (Gift of John Jennings who noted a relationship between \"Six Mile Ordinary,\" \"Allen's Ordinary\" and Lightfoot, Virginia. Typed transcript of letter from Samuel Terrell from a camp near Yorktown to Major Garrett Minor in Louisa County. September 30, 1781.","Notebook containing a manuscript copy of the Charles and New Pocosin [sic] Parish Register. Volume 1, part 1. Births and Baptisms. 1648-1800. Index.","Notebook containing a manuscript copy of the Charles and New Pocosin [sic] Parish Register. Volume 1, part 2. Births and Baptisms. 1648-1800. Index.","Notebook containing a manuscript copy of the Charles and New Pocosin [sic] Parish Register. Volume 2. Deaths. 1665-1787. Index.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Virginia. 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Kent in 1948.","Includes deeds, wills, legal documents, and church records (Christians Creek School House, Glebe Burying Ground, Old Stone Church, and Tinkling Spring Church.) 58 items. Purchased 1939 from C. J. Carrier of Bridgewater, VA.","3 pieces","1 piece.","[11p.] 23 1/2 cm. Printed. 2 copies.","By Rev. John Craig, first pastor of Old Stone Church in Augusta County, Virginia. 24, 14 p. 11x 8 3/3 inches. Mimeographed. 1 piece.","14 p. 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Mimeographed. 1 piece.","10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. 1 piece.","Content regarding payment for land purchased from George Ruebush. 1 piece.","1 piece.","Possibly drawn by Henry Hearman. Includes handrawn map of Virginia.","Price list card for A.M. Bruce, Wholesale Provision Merchant. Staunton, Virginia. Undated. Photostat of an order issued April 22, 1772 for land forfeiture.","Scope and Contents Papers, 1767-1870, relating to Bedford County, Va. Includes accounts; bonds; bill of sale, 1783. for slave; copy of appointment, 1772, of James Steptoe as clerk of Bedford Court; and copy of land grant, 1792. Also includes letter, 1876, of A. Granville Bradley describing the Shenandoah Valley and list, undated, of soldiers who served in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution with notes on the formation of Campbell County, Va. Land Grant of 300 acres in Bedford County, Virginia to Job Martin for payment of L1.10 sterling to the Treasury of the Commonwealth. Signed by Henry Lee, Governor. The materials that comprise this collection were donated by W. Mac Jones and Mrs. William C. Segar and obtained or purchased by W\u0026M Special Collections Research Center in batches between the period of 1927 and 1981.","Receipts and invoices to and from various individuals.  Some names include:  Mr. Beaver, John Berk, Mr. Pendleton, Thomas Pugh, Jack Steward, John F. Woods, Charles Dudley, Jeremiah, Moses Eubank, Jacob Wolf, Leroy James and others.","Scope and Contents Sally Phelps, aunt, Lynchburg, Virginia to Henry Bigger about purchasing a cow. Includes a registry receipt. August 6, 1884. Photocopy of a letter to \"Willie Dear\" (Mrs. L.B. Bigger of Bellevue, Bedford County) from unknown. July 29, 1886. D.W. Bigger to \"My Dear Brother\" (James H. Bigger) about receiving a photograph of him and about Christmas. December 3, 1894.","Correspondence includes a mix of people with no obvious connection to one another, though some letters deal with legal matters. December 24, 1841, Tazewell Headen, Floyd C.H. to ( ) Goggin, Atty at Law, Liberty. Concerns summoning witnesses. December 12, 1843, William Daniel, Jr. of Lynchburg, Virginia to Joseph Wilson, Clerk, Bedford, Liberty (Virginia) about McKinney and Walker repaying debt from Harris and the dismissal of a suit on the validity of Even Snead's will. February 6, 1847, Robert Davis of Lynchburg, Virginia to Joseph Wilson, Clerk of Superior Court of Bedford County with a request to make copies of a statement of debt in the case of Samuel E. White and William T. Smith (late merchants trading as White and Smith) vs four other men. February 12, 1858, Julie Clayton in Ivy Hill to her cousin about a party and marriages of acquaintances. November, 1879, Letter to \"Mr. ---(?)\" from \"Your friend only\" where the writer clearly states that having a relationship with him would bring her no joy and his attention would be in vain and \"our correspondence has closed. May your future life be blessed by a companion worthy of your efforts…Amen.\" March 11, 1889 and March 12, 1889, To \"My dear Susie\" (Mrs. William Bese) possibly from her mother in Chester, Virginia about news of family and friends. The empty envelopes are mostly addressed to the Clerk of the County Superior Court. Some names on the envelopes are A. B. Nichols, J.L. Edwards, Joseph Wilson, William M. Burwell, William Cook and others.","Scope and Contents 1869 and early 1900 receipts, one a United States Internal Revenue \"receipt for special tax\" for R.M. Dennis for a business of \"retail dealer ...liquor\" in Roscoe, St. Clair, Missouri for 1870. 1904-1909 letters to Mrs. E.M. Dennis of Bedford County, Virginia from other members of her family and E. Hilton Jackson, a Washington D.C. lawyer about a Claims Court case of (heirs of) Samuel Cline vs the United States where Samuel Cline says he lived in Rockingham County, Virginia but reports show he owned a Cline's Mill in Staunton, Virginia which sold \"large quantities of supplies to the Confederacy....\" The Samuel Cline heirs are claiming their father did not vote for secession and can prove his loyalty to the Union. Other family members include Cyrus Cline and Samuel Cline. Includes a carbon of a February 4, 1908 contract between \"the next of kin and heirs at law of Samuel Cline, deceased, and E. Hilton Jackson\" for Jackson's representation of the family during the claims case.","Scope and Contents A varied group of legal documents. Account sheet for Robert Fauster to Joel Terrell for 1750 with an 1769 note at the bottom by Chas Servis which states Terrell has \"received no satisfaction for the above ballance.\" On reverse, a note by Jacob Early states \"we the jewry find for the plaintiff...\" Payment to \"Sovereign Lord King George the third\" for an ordinary license for William Mead in Bedford County, Virginia with William Mead and Isham Talbot as witnesses. February 27, 1771. Indenture between Richard Muse and his wife and James Jones. Wythe County. May 10, 1796. Note on reverse spells \"Muse\" as \"Mary???\" Bond report by Thos Lumpkin. Some names mentioned: Boyce Eidson, Martin King, ? Chastain, Richard Lockett, Thomas Wood, Samuel Baker, Edward and William Eads, James Foster, George Wilson, Farthing Hix and other illegible names. undated. Flyer by Richard M. Young, Late Commissioner of the General Land Office with letterhead, \"General Agency at Washington City\" about \"Acts of Congress granting Pensions to soldiers and their widows for services rendered during the Revolutionary War\" with amendments to 1853. Addressed to Joseph Wilson, Clerk of Circuit Court, Liberty, Bedford County, Virginia. undated.","Mostly receipts for Edward Merriman for purchases, but includes a letter, a military record and a recipe for \"John M. Merryman's Cement Wash.\" May 24, 1850 letter to Edward Merriman, Liberty, Bedford County, Virginia from Joseph Anderson in Cincinnati, Ohio about the whereabouts and news of other members of the Merriman Family. December 15, 1898 document states that George S. Merriman was a Private in Company G, 2nd Regiment of the Virginia Volunteers who enrolled on June 24, 1898 to serve for two years and was discharged on December 18, 1898.  Notes that George S. Merriman was born in Batford (Bedford?), Virginia, 43 years of age, 5 foot, 9 and a half  inches tall, fair complexion, blue eyes, gray hair and a farmer. Signed by Ballard P. Hatcher, Captain, in Roanoke, Virginia.","Scope and Contents Poetry, prose and recipes written by different unknown people.  One \"editorial\" is about a tribute to the late Governor Kavanaugh of Maine.  Recipes include \"Sponge Pudding\" and \"Chow Chow Pickle.\"  Includes a headache remedy.","Related Collection: Mss. Acc. 2008.321 Berkeley County, Virginia (W.Va.) Tax Records","Letter from Charles J. Faulkner, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to the President of William and Mary, at Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning the name of Berkeley County. September 8, 1873. 1 item.","Bill of sale for $400, 1807, for the sale of a slave, Dick, by Henry Bowyer to John Robinson. Purchase. Charles Hamilton Auction in 1981.","Land Grant, 1803, for Nicholas Casper, in Botetourt County, Va. signed by Governor John Page (1743-1808).","Agreement, 1883 August 18, of George W. Parrish to sell to William Jackson a portion of the tract of land in Brunswick County, Va. called \"the Batt land.\"","Scope and Contents Papers, 1769-1951, relating to Buckingham County, Va. Includes a grant, 1769, of land to Samuel Megginson signed by Lord Botetourt ; indenture (deed) between Chambers and William Norvell, 1836; photograph, 1951, of the Bolling Family of \"Rosney,\"; and accounts and correspondence of the post office at Gravel Hill , Mattie J. West, postmaster (10 items). The materials that comprise this collection were donated to W\u0026M Special Collections Research Center by Willam R. Cocke, Mrs. G. M. Kent, Mr. \u0026 Mrs. John Stone, and John D. Weaver in batches between 1940 and 1983. Finding Aid prepared by Cynthia B. Brown, 1983.","Scope and Contents Typed list, undated, of justices of the peace, 1782-1824, of Campbell County, Va.; and license, 1860, to marry of Edward Scott Payne and Anna Agnes Oliver. Gift of John Lawrence in 1997. Two court records, 1796 and undated, signed by Cha[rles]s and Williston Talbot. (Acc. 1997.31c).","Transcript of minutes, 1811-1814, of courts of enquiry of 26th Virginia regiment of Charlotte County, Va.; extract, 5 June 1833, from court records concerning death of John Randolph of Roanoke; and marriage license, 1823, of Robert Carrington and Joanna T. Bouldin. Typed list of Charlotte County names from about the mid 1700's with notes on Mathis Flournoy and John Prior. Cub Creek Church Memorial program. 1938.","Scope and Contents Papers relating to Chesterfield County, Va. Includes such items as extracts from county records; lawsuits (Vestry of Parish of Manchester v. Overseers of the Poor); commission, 1756, signed by Robert Dinwiddie appointing justices to try slave for burglary; deed; agreement (concerning Gallego Mills); and a broadside, undated, concerning proposed removal of court from Manchester to Chesterfield Court House. Item level inventory available at Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Greenway Court.","Copy of the will of Robert Hudson, 1866, with codicil dated 1872 (1 piece). Copy of a court order to pay Richard I. Tull for his services as sheriff. 1830. (1 piece). Court order to pay Walter (?) for public services. 1830. Typed manuscript \"A Culpeper Census of 1781\" by A.L. Keith. 37 pages. 1941.","Ledger, 1841-1844, of a grist mill in Culpeper County, Virginia. Includes lists of customers and what the bought, typically wheat and flour. People could also bring their own material and have it ground; the material and the price for grinding is listed in the ledger. Also includes entries for a bill for a cabin for slaves and flour for slaves. 1 item. Purchase. Mss. Acc. 2011.563.","Papers, 1830-1910, relating to Cumberland County, Va. Includes such items as copies of court orders, 1830, to pay George H. Matthews for service as prosecutor for Commonwealth and S. H. Panack for services as jailor; receipt, 1910, for taxes; plat, 1842, for land owned by Edward Steger; and a newspaper clipping, 1893 October 1, from the Richmond Dispatch. Gift of John Lawrence. Two court documents, one dated 1797, signed by James Morton. (1997.31e)","Certificate of Appointment, 1828, of William H. Broadnax, William Wynne, and Edward S. Pegram as commissioners to superintend election of electors for U. S. president and vice president in Dinwiddie County, Va.; and copy of court order, 1830, to pay James Scott for his services as jailor. Cotton circular for Martin, Hill and Co. in Petersburg, Virginia. September 22, 1886.","Deed, June 21, 1773, from Israel Morris to Michael Goen for 100 acres of land in Dunmore County (Shenandoah County), Virginia.","Photostats of a petition presented by certain residents of Elizabeth City County to the General Assembly of Virginia, November 30, 1803, in opposition to the proposal to combine the Eaton and Syms charity schools into one school. Photostat of a petition presented by certain residents of Elizabeth City County to the General Assembly of Virginia, December 19, 1803, requesting that the Eaton and Syms charity schools be combined into one school.","Typescript of a history of Hampton and Elizabeth City County, Va., entitled \"The First Plantation,\" by Marion L. Starkey, ca 1930s. Includes an incomplete index in a separate green book.","Typed extracts, 1663-1791, from Old Rappahannock County [now Essex County.] Extract from a vestry book of Albemarle Parish, Sussex County. 1788. A handwritten list (probably a copy) of a list of names for \"Rose and Gabriel Penn, given under our hands...November 3rd, 1788,\" with a note on reverse \"Subscription for St. Marks Church.\" Another note says this page found in a vestry book in Albermarle Parish on November 26, 1926. Transcript of letter from Hugh Rose, at Geddes, to Col. James Higginbotham about sellling land of Brother Moses, deceased. 24 March 1791. Original order to the Sheriff of Essex County to take James Daniel and James McCall for a court appearance in William Roane vs Daniel and McCall. Signed John Lee. May 30, 1755. (Gift of Benjamin A. Grady). August 23, 2000 letter to Mrs. Harold Little, owner of Clydeside, from H. Franklin Minor, about the McCall Family and ownership of Clydeside.","Ground plan of Woodlawn, home of Nellie Custis Lewis, in Fairfax County. In ink on tracing cloth.  19 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches.  1 piece.","Scope and Contents Papers, ca. 1743-1793, relating to Fairfax County, Va. Includes notes, concerning register of Pohick Church; newspaper clipping, concerning court record book of Fairfax County; survey, 1841, of tract of land; and plan, undated, of \"Woodlawn,\" home of Nellie Custis Lewis; court records, 1743-1783; and an account book, 1793, of Joseph Birch, keeper of Turnpike Number 2, which has two entries, 9 October 1792 and 13 April 1793, concerning George Washington. 1963 gift from Mrs. Marion S. Mallory. 17 items. Postcards of Old Court House, published by Ernest L. Robey's Drugstore. 3 items. Undated.","Copy of tax list, 1782-1799, for Fauquier County, Va.. Court order, 1830, to pay James English for his services as jailor and for cleaning and furnishing firewood and candles for the courthouse. Catalogue of Fauquier Institute for Young Ladies. Session 1892-93. Owned by Miss E. Chappelear.","Land grant, 15 May 1780, given to Samuel McDowell for 1,000 acres of land in Fayette County, Va. [W.Va.] signed by Patrick Henry. For those interested in Patrick Henry see the Patrick Henry Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Broadside, 12 July 1941, advertising July 12 as the day for all citizens over thirteen years of age to register as volunteers for the civil defense program in Fluvanna County.","Note on document: \"…record book…is no longer public property, the original book being in private hands…\" Typed carbon copy of \"The History of Rivanna Parish in the County of Fluvanna, Virginia\" by Louis H. Stoneman. 1847- 1912. Pamphlet with the Charter and By-Laws of the State Bank of Columbia. 1900. An advertisement of the Commissioner's sale of Upper Bremo Tract where Mary B. and Lelia B. Cocke lived. 1926. The Midland Virginian, Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia article, \"Old receipts show that Fluvanna farms tithed to aid Confederacy.\" February 13, 1941. Notebook called \"Weather Report\" where the daily weather conditions were recorded. 1886-1887.","Invoices, receipts, accounts, laden lists, letters and other accounting documents from merchants in Columbia, Virginia. 1880-1910. 465 pieces. Merchants include: Jenkins and Foster, William B. Perkins, John F. Shepherd, Stoneman Brothers, Dr. Philip J.Winn, and George T. Zachary.","Scope and Contents Invoices, receipts, accounts, laden lists, letters and other accounting documents from merchants in Columbia, Virginia. 1880-1910. 465 pieces. Merchants include: Jenkins and Foster, William B. Perkins, John F. Shepherd, Stoneman Brothers, Dr. Philip J.Winn, and George T. Zachary. (Related material: 65 Sh5 Shepherd and Patton Papers). Broadside for \"The Celebrated Horse-Tamer Prof. W. Rouzer will give a lecture on ...June 7th...\" Certificates from residents of \"Kent's Store, Fluvanna County, Virginia, Oct. 2nd 1876\" who have taken the lectures are listed. Names listed are from Fluvanna, Pittsylvania and Charlotte Counties.","Article on John Hartwell Cocke. 2010. Acc. 2010.605.","Folders 1 - 5 are papers, 1772-1800, (group of 481 pieces) relating to 178 suits in Franklin County, VA and 16 other papers. Some papers are fragments. 481 pieces. The spelling of names varies greatly and as it was found to be impracticable to give all forms of each name, one spelling only is shown. The materials donated by John Lawrence in 1991, by Fred Alouf in 1959, and obtained from Joseph K. Ruebush in 1938. Folder 6 contains later, unrelated accessions.","Work Projects Administration Writers' Program. \"The White Man Comes to Stay,\" \"War Whoops in the Wilderness,\" and \"Explorers in the Wilderness.\" 1941. Two court documents signed by James Callaway. 1797. Mss. Acc. 1997.31f. 28 copies of certificates saying people attended the September New London District Court, signed by James Steptoe, Clerk of the Franklin County District Court. 1797. Includes 4 fragments. Names include: John Arthur, Moses Greer, Luke Standefer, Richard Goggin, Samuel Patterson, John Cheetwood, Charles Lumsden, Thomas Haile, Shelton Brown, Shelton Taylor, Joel Chitwood, William Cheetwood, Lewis Turnbull, William Boswell, James Prunty, Thomas Towler, Lewis Davis, John Hayle, George Ferguson, Dudley Lumsden, Benjamin Griffith, John Houle and Thomas Fowler. Mss. Acc. 1997.52","Scope and Contents Documents concerning land (deeds and list of lands returned as delinquent); proceedings, 1812, of meeting held at Winchester; and advertisement, undated, offering the Marlbro' Iron Works for sale or rent. 5 items.","Scope and Contents The original 1938 accession were papers relating to Gloucester Count, 1660-1878, and taken from the William Carter Stubbs Papers (I). They were purchased from Charles F. Heartman. They comprise Boxes 8, 9 and 10, folders 1-28. Includes letters, accounts (many concerning estates), legal documents, tax lists, marriage licenses and military records (including orders, 1815 and 1820 appointing patrollers to visit slave quarters). Many items concern the Baytop and Stubbs families. 2134 items. Letters, 1774-1878, filed chronologically. Invoices, receipts, etc. filed alphabetically under name of person or estate. The remaining boxes contain later accessions. Notes and photocopies relating to Gloucester County during the Revolution collected by Joanee Ryan in preparation for M.A. thesis (Mss. Acc. 1988.24). Photostat copy of transcript of \"Gloucester County, Virginia Places and Names\" by Charles E. Hatch, Jr. Yorktown, Virginia. September 15, 1979 (Mss. Acc. 1999.66). Photographs of and brochures of Gloucester County, plus correspondence of different families of Gloucester County about personal and legal matters, 1795-1953, donor unknown. John Buckner Reports, undated (Mss. Acc. 2008.193). Newspaper article on Wilbur Templeman a popular and longtime barber in Gloucester (Mss. Acc. 2010.575). Related material: See also \"A Guide to Gloucester County, Virginia Historical Manuscripts, 1651-1865\" (Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1976). For those interested in the Baytop family see the Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Item inventory in folder.","Item inventory in each folder.","Item inventory in folder.","Acra-Baytop. Item inventory in folder.","Baytop-Bridges. Item inventory in folder.","Baytop Family. Item inventory in folder.","Baytop Family. Item inventory in folder.","Bridges-Corr. Item inventory in folder.","Dame-Gloucester County School Commissioners. Item inventory in folder.","Hall-Kemp. Item inventory in folder.","Lawson-Nuttall. Item inventory in folder.","Oakes-Purcell. Item inventory in folder.","Ransone-Stubbs. Item inventory in folder.","Tabb-Wood. Item inventory in folder.","Papers of persons not included in folders 4-14. Inventory not available.","Two or more persons/families mentioned.  Unidentified pieces and fragments.  Includes an index of a ledger and five memorandum books.","1825 Court docket, records of official examinations of boundary lines (1825-1848, undated), copy of certificate appointing Peter Kemp and James Baytop processioners...sixth precinct (undated) and unofficial memoranda on cases (undated).","Amory-Ash.  Item inventory in folder.","Ball-Byrd. Item inventory in folder.","Campbell - DuVall. Item inventory in folder.","Edwards - Hughes.  Item inventory in folder.","James - Oliver. Item inventory in folder.","Pitt - Sutton. Item inventory in folder.","Item survey in folder.","Item inventory in folder.","Item inventory in folder.","Scope and Contents \"Gloucester County, Virginia Places and Names\"  (Mss. Acc. 1999.66)  First half of book.","Scope and Contents \"Gloucester County, Virginia Places and Names\"  (Mss. Acc. 1999.66)  Second half of book.","\"Story of Elmington\" by Polly Cary Legg. Possibly a Work Projects Administration Writers' Program story.  December 1, 1941.  Photographs of Grace Church and The Glebe. Donation ticket for Ware Church, 1953, and a Christmas Card with picture of Ware Church. Photographs of \"New Bottle\" House, Undated.  Photograph of \"Painting of Gloucester from the Water\", courtesy of Mariner's Museum.  Conservation State Organization rules and regulations, undated.  \"Programme at the Laying of the Cornerstone and the Unveiling of the Monument,\" 1889.  Brochure on \"The Belle Roi Female School\" in Gloucester, Virginia, 1855.  Facts about Gloucester, copy, undated.","1795 and 1796 - Indenture between Thomas Whiting and Mary his wife of Gloucester and John Singar of Norfolk, Virginia on July 1, 1795,  Plat of land of William DuVal for John Singar.  June 15, 1796 1801, 1802 and 1804 -  Document binding John Thruston of Abington Parish, Gloucester County, to Sarah Tabb, who is relinquishing her right of dower, for land of John Stephens, September 2, 1801.  Indenture between Edward Busbie, Senior of Abington Parish, Gloucester County and Benjamin Marnix for land in Gloucester County, January 4, 1802.  Indenture between Henry Whiting and William Singleton for land in Gloucester County, February 1, 1802.  Indenture between Richard Singleton and Nelly Thornton, his wife, of the County of Gloucester, and John Singar for land, April 2, 1804. 1810 -1825 and undated - Account of Estate of John Singar for 1810-1818.  Letter to Dr. William Taliaferro, Gloucester Court House, from Richard H. Johnson of Hanover County, Virginia concerning his claim against the Mr. Carter who was his tenant, May 31, 1822.  Receipt Book, bound with string, with names, amount of money received and reason, 1825.  Letter to Richard M. Segan, late Sheriff of Middlesex County, Virginia regarding taking money from Bogg's benefit in case against James Critten.  Undated. 1829-1857 - Letter to Walker Jones of Gloucester Courthouse from H. Wilkinson of Petersburg, Virginia about Mr. Stubblefield offering $150 for settlement of Wilkinson's business.  Lists 1829 and 1830 Rockingham Season accounts, March 31, 1834.  Letter to Miss H.B. Booth, Gloucester County, about an account, June 5, 1834. Article of Agreement between Alfred Billups, Gloucester County, and Jacob Vreeland of Bergen County, New Jersey for tract of land on York River in Gloucester County, October 6, 1834.  Letter from T.B. Whiting of St. Marks, Florida to M.C. Booth in Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia regarding accusation of debt, R. M. Thornton and A.L. Dabney, February 26, 1837.  Receipt for John W. Puller for items purchased from T.B. Taliaferro, 1856 and 1857. Thomas J. Banks Correspondence and Accounts, 1826-1838 - Two partial account books in the same handwriting as the William and Thomas Banks book.  William Banks is mentioned in one of them, 1826-1830.  Accounts of William and Thomas Banks, Oyster deposit on the River. Partial account book, 1833-1836.  Thomas T. Bailey of Baileysville, Tennessee to Thomas J. Banks about collecting and sending money that he was collected, July 23, 1835.  Letter to Thomas J. Banks of Gloucester, Virginia  from James M. Rasin and Company regarding wheat and repairing a Straw Cutler.    Includes Receipt and statement., September 17, 1835.  Letter to Thomas J. Banks of Gloucester, Virginia from Samuel Crane of Richmond, Virginia about the two negroes that were part of Banks' brother's estate.  John Carlton, deceased, is mentioned,  March 26, 1836.  Letter to Thomas J. Banks of Gloucester Court House regarding rent, December 5, 1836.  Letter from Robert Nicholas of Richmond, Virginia to Jefferson Stubbs of Gloucester County, Virginia regarding the suit in Henrico County, Virginia with T.J. Banks, administrator of John Banks, deceased, regarding two negroes, April 3, 1838. Christopher Jones Correspondence and Documents, 1824-1826 -  Note sent by John Field to the Courthouse for Christopher Jones or Thomas Banks about a receipt, July 31, 1824.  Letter to Christopher Jones of Gloucester County from H. Boggs of Baltimore, Maryland concerning settlement with a John Henry and Mr. Jones who is possibly the brother of Christopher Jones, September 13, 1825.  Indenture between Christopher T. Jones and Mann Page Trustees under a deed of trust between William Wilkins and Mann page and Christopher T. Jones to secure for to Thomas Smith and John Tabbs, September 5, 1825.  Letter to Christopher Jones about will that was proven October 3, 1808, with Henry Curry as the testator and Susanna Curry the Executrix and lists other cases.  The writer, from Richmond, Virginia,  also turns down offer to visit the area while extolling the pleasures of the rural setting, August 28, 1825.  Letter to Christopher Jones of Gloucester County from H. Boggs of Baltimore, Maryland concerning a settlement, December 1825.  Letter to Christopher Jones of Gloucester County from George Haskins concerning bringing to Chancery Court his suit against James Montague, Philip Montague, Thomas G. Cridington and Robert Dobbins, January 22, 1826. Kemp Family, 1825 and undated -  Letter to Christopher Jones of Gloucester County from Robert Tubman concerning suit against Peter Kemp, November 30, 1825.  Letter to William Browne Judge of the Chancery District of Williamsburg about Peter, Francis, William and Sarah Kemp against John Johnston, admr of Robert Kemp, deceased, Undated.","Carbon of typed notes on John Buckner (ca. 1630-1695) of Gloucester County, Virginia.  He brought the first press and printer, William Nuthead, to Virginia about 1680.  Prepared by Mary Goodwin, Research Department, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.  Typescripts of brief biographical sketches of John Buckner and his family from Tyler's Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography and an account of William Nuthead, from first printer in Virginia and Maryland, from J.C.Oswald, Printing in the America's.  13 pages.","Daily Press newspaper article, \"County Barber Still Cutting,\" about Wilbur Templeman and his barbershop. His daughter, Linda Templeman, worked in Swem Library, Government Documents.  August 9, 2009.","Patent for 4753 acres of land in Goochland County, Virginia granted by King George II to Michael Holland. 1744. On vellum. 13 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches. Signed by Lieutenant Governor William Gooch.","Papers, 1744-1832, relating to Goochland County, Va. Includes patent, 1744, to Michael Holland (signed by Gooch and granted by King George II); will, 1815, of Nathaniel Davidson; court order, 1830, to pay William Pope for services as prosecuting attorney; and document, 1831, concerning the lawsuit of the Commonwealth v. John N. Davis; letter, 1832, from Pleasant Turner to Archibald Bryce; and plat, 1839, of land owned by William Ford. Patent filed in Oversize. Court Docket to November 1795, list of all cases. Commonwealth vs. John N. Davis, 1831 Will of Nathaniel Davidson, 1815 Plat tract of land owned by William Ford, 1839 Oversize patent, for land, signed by Gov. Gooch, granted by King George II to Michael Holland, 1744 Court order to pay William Pope for services as prosecuting attorney, 1830 Letter, Pleasant Turner to Capt. Archibald Bryce, 1832 Court Docket to November 1795, list of all cases","They appear to be a general store, ordering food items, clothe, clothing, shoes, horseshoes, nails, tobacco and other items.  Their shipping address is Irwin's Station or Bula in Goochland County.  Over 120 items. 1882-1883. Court Summons.  Names mentioned:  William Southworth, J. Clemens, Jos. Bullock, William Johnson, Julian Martin, Lucy Randolph, Anderson Matthews and S.W. Mason.  5 items.  1853. Archibald D. Perkins Accounts.  One receipt from Lucy Randolph.  39 items. 1836-1893. Typed carbon copy of a biography of Benjamin Waller and letters of Benjamin Wood.  Undated. Related items:  MsV Ame18  B. R. Cowherd Ledger","Copy of survey, 29 September 1804, of land in Greenbrier County Va. [W.Va.] for heirs of William Humes and surveyed by Alexander Welch.","A typed list of voters for 1800. Court order to pay William Faulkner for his services as sheriff.  1829.  copy. Court order to pay Samuel Pointer for his services as sheriff.  1830.  copy.","Deed (mutilated), 1727, from John Guess to Thomas Denton for land in Hanover County, Va.; receipt, 187[?] for taxes to Joseph Henry; and appeal, 1894, for aid in building a church in a needy neighborhood, with a list of names of contributors attached. Title page, with a photograph of the Clay house, from \"Life and Speeches of Henry Clay.\" 1843. Signature on front page: Mattie R. Feild, Millbrook, Virginia, 1886. Photostat copy of town lot layout of Hanover along the Pamunkey River with a tax list of names. March 17, 1738 or 39.","Scope and Contents Ledger, 1917 of a store in Studley, Hanover County, Virginia, recording purchases made by various customers. Customers' names are listed, and occasionally their town or county. A more detailed description is provided by the seller:  \"Ledger is a Eagle Flat Opening Book No. 895 (sold by Reinbach \u0026 Schwartz Stationers, Richmond, Va.). Measures: 8 1/4\" x 12 3/4\" x 1 1/4\",  287 pages.  This Ledger begins in May, 1917 and ends December 7, 1917.  Entries such as: Miss Ellen Timberlake, 2 Loaves of Bread .10;    Babes Bowles, 2 Cultivator Teethe .50, 1 Plow Point .16;  Mrs. Austin, 1/2 Plug Tobacco  .05\" \"On Page 158 it has a stamp on it: Do your bit! BUY A LIBERTY LOAN BOND, Inquire at any Bank or Post Office. Several Pages are Stamped (with a Postage Stamper): Studley, Va. (date).\" \"There are entries for food products, farm supplies, coca cola, tobacco, coffee, oil, medicine, etc.....\" Purchased.","Hardy County is now part of West Virginia.","Deed, 1858, from Westfall Garret to Henry Richmond covering a tract of land in Hardy County, Va. [W.Va.]. Court documents signed by Ed Williams, Clerk, 1797. Donated in 1997 by John Lawrence.","Portion of printed list, 1831, of land returned as delinquent for taxes in Harrison County [W.Va.]","Scope and Contents Papers, 1726-1871 and undated, relating to Henrico County, Va. Includes land patent, deeds, documents concerning lawsuits, estate document, and receipt for fee for apprehending a slave. 14 items.","Order, 1784, to the sheriff of Henry County, Va. to call jurors in the lawsuit of Commonwealth v. Anderson McGwire in the Virginia General Court.","Photocopy of a booklet, \"Fork Boykin\" compiled by Miss Genie Cory. Undated. Photograph of St. Luke's Church. Undated.","Index or register of names in a ledger divided alphabetically with tabs. Names include first and surnames, men and women, and all have a number noted beside them. There is no location or date or purpose noted on the register, but by using census data, the register was created circa 1900 and probably in the Isle of Wight County area of Virginia. Medium Oversize.","An artificial collection of material, 1687-1924, relating to James City County, Virginia. Includes copies of court records, farm censuses, tax receipts, church brochures, and photographs. Box 12 and 13 are mostly a gift from Robert T. Slater.","Blueprints of tracts of land in James City County. Carlton Casey land in Jamestown District, surveyed November 6, 1950; William Washington Estate, surveyed October 26, 1951; Mrs. Bessie Carmine property on Old Jamestown Road, surveyed September 2, 1940; Plat of subdivision of portion of Sarah Jones Tract, surveyed April 9, 1948; Survey of Bush Neck Road, Rye Patches and Wallace's Tract, surveyed June 1939; Frederick J. Keck farm in Stonehouse District, surveyed October 1937; Indigo Dam, estate of William Allen Jones, decd, in Jamestown District, surveyed October 1931; Rollo Subdivision, surveyed on November 26, 1930; Stephen's Tract #2, J.W. Penick the owner, in Stonehouse District, surveyed May, 1926; Timberlake Property, surveyed April 23, 1930 and Walthal Tract, surveyed June 1928.","1687 August 8. Copy of will of John Holder, deceased. Proved at the County Court held at James City, 8 August 1687 by the oaths of John White and Dorothy Peach. Recorded by W. Edwards, Cl[erk of] Co[u]r[t]. 1 page. Photostat of Document Signed.","Scope and Contents Copy of a law enacted by General Assembly, 17 February 1644, prohibiting desertions of plantations that have been seated; persons deserting their plantations are not to burn their houses but will receive as many nails as were expended in building them. Signed by William Robertson (d. 1739) Cl[er]k Gen[era]l Ass[emb]ly [from 1702-1738]. 1 page. Document Signed.","1805 February. Copy of pages from a court record signed by Ro[bert] B. Armistead. \"Found among the ruins of the old Court House at Williamsburg, Va. 1864.\" 2 pages. Copy of Document Signed.","1813 February 12. Copy of advertisement in the Richmond Enquirer for the rent or lease of the Greenspring Estate. 1 page. Typewritten Copy of Newspaper Clipping.","1820 September 1. Census record of James City county for 1820. Signed by Rich[ar]dson Henley, assistant to the Marshal. (Note reads \"From Lib. of Cong.\") 1 page. Photostat of Document.","1827 June 30. Copy of Complaint brought by Archer Hankins, late sheriff of James City and Committee of the esate of James Banks, deceased, against William Gregory, sheriff of King William County, appointed to represent William Gregory, Christopher Johnson, Ann Dudley, G. R. Lambert Meredith, Martha Bingham, Julia Bingham, Jno. Bingham, Geo. Bingham, [?] Lambert (wife of Eugene Sullivan), and Stephen Bingham, the heirs of Stephen Bingham. Concerns a tract of land in James City county called \"Mount Folly.\" 3 pages. Document Signed.","1847 May 6. Memorandum of deed of trust executed on 21 Sep[tember] 1841 is filed as an exhibit in the Chancery Suit in the Supr[eme] Court of James City County and City of Williamsburg by Upshur's executors vs. Pryor and others. Signed by P. P. Mayo. Fragment. Document Signed.","1849 January 19. Copy of advertisement in the Richmond Enquirer of the Hickory Neck Academy, James City County, Virginia. 1 page. Typewritten Copy of Newspaper Clipping.","1882-1893 and undated. Tax receipts, James City County, Virginia of Alexander Preston and Alfred Epps and a few miscellaneous receipts. Printed Document Signed. (13 items).","Scope and Contents 1896 June 1. \"The James City Cavalry, Its Organization and Its Service.\" (Company H, Fifth Regiment, mustered into service 22 May 1861). From \"Our Confederate Column\" in the Richmond Dispatch. Newspaper clipping.","1928 February 12. Bulletin from the Mount Vernon M. E. Church, South, Toano, Virginia. H. Conrad Blackwell, Pastor. 4 pages. Printed Material.","1929 June 30. Church Bulletin of Five Forks Church, Old Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, Virginia. Rev. James M. McKnight, Pastor. 4 pages. Printed Material.","1946 October 6. Invitation to Homecoming Day at James River Baptist Church, J. E. Bowman, Pastor. 1 page. Typewritten Copy.","1948 July 27. Letter. Mrs. William Lawrence Gatewood at New York to Brantley Henderson, Jr. at Williamsburg, [?] house and lot, and a store in Toano, Virginia. 4 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.","No Year. June 27. Program from Our Saviors Lutheran Church, Norge, Virginia in honor of the visit of the Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess of Norway. 1 page. Typewritten Copy.","Undated. Program of The County Council of Women's Clubs presenting \"Days in James City County from 1609 to 1817.\" 1 page. Printed Material. (3 items).","Undated. Bulletin of Hickory Neck Church, Blissland Parish, Toano, James City County, Virginia. 2 pages. Printed Material.","Undated. Brochure of the James City County Chamber of Commerce, Toano, Virginia. 2 pages. Printed Material.","1920. Economic Survey for James City County 1920 Census. 1 page. Typewritten Document.","1923 October 9. S. H. Hobbs, Jr., Rural Social Science, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. to Miss Mabel Massey, County Home Demonstration Agent, Williamsburg, Virginia. Is sending bulletin compiled from information secured in a survey of the townships in Chatham Co. [N. C.] and a bulletin on Johnston Co. [N. C.]; discusses types of surveys used by his department. 2 pages. Typewritten Letter Signed.","1924 February 12-13. Program of the Peninsula Farmers Institute. 1 page. Printed Material.","Scope and Contents Undated. \"A Glimpse of the Progressive School System of James City County\" by H. L. Harris, Supt. of Schools. 7 pages. Typewritten Document.","Undated. \"Health Conditions in James City County.\" 4 pages. Typewritten Document.","Scope and Contents Samples of typed farm census forms from other locations in 1923: Chowan County, North Carolina; Henderson County, North Carolina; Hertford County, North Carolina; Madison County, North Carolina; Nash County, North Carolina and North Carolina 1923 farm census (blank form. 4 pages). Blank survey on \"Farm Home Conditions\" from Pittsylvania Co., Virginia (2 pages). Sample form for farm census (3 pages). Survey of Whitmell Community made by Rural Sociology Class (3 pages).","Undated. Farm survey, James City County. 8 pages. Printed Material. (17 items).","Undated. Farm survey, James City County. 8 pages. Printed Material. (17 items).","1922 June 13. Johnston County: Economic and Social (a Laboratory Study in the Rural Social Science Department of the University of North Carolina) by W. M. Sanders, Jr. and G. Y. Ragsdale.","1922 October. Economic and Social Survey of Albemarle County, University of Virginia Record Extension Series, vol. VII, No. 2.","1922 November 16. How Farm Tenants Live by J. A. Dickey and E. C. Branson. University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 47 pages. Printed Material.","1923 Virginia Agricultural Census, U. S. Department of Agriculture co-operating with the State Department of Agriculture. 32 pages. Printed Material.","Scope and Contents Colonel William Allen House (P1), formerly owned by Miss Fanny Allen and later owned by Mr. Mercer Taylor. Four miles west of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Ashland Farm (P2), formerly owned by Captain William Morecock. Located at Diascond station. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Binn's Place (P3), located west of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Carter's Grove (P4), home of Mrs. Archibald McCrea. South of Williamsburg. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Carter's Grove (P5), home of Mrs. Archibald McCrea. South of Williamsburg. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Carter's Grove (P6). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Carter's Grove (P7). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Carter's Grove (before restoration) (P8). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents \"Cowlesville\" (P9), original home of the Cowles family. Owned by C. C. Cowles. Located on Rt. 603 just north of Rt. 610, six miles west of Toano on the Old Forge Road (much remodeled). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Curtis Home (P10). Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Curtis Home (P11). Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Edwards Place (P12), owned by Mrs. Marcus Cottrell. Located four miles northwest of Toano at the intersection of Rt. 601 and Rt. 603. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Gatewood Place Kitchen (P13), owned by C. Ordway. Located one half mile west of Toano on Forge Road. Now destroyed. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Green Spring (P14), ruins of the second house at Green Spring, built about 1800. The foundations of the Sir William Berkeley house at Green Spring are south of this house about two hundred yards. Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white. Undated.","Scope and Contents Green Spring (P15), aerial view. Photographic print, 7\"x9\". Undated.","Scope and Contents Green Spring (P16), aerial view. Photographic print, 7\"x9\". Undated.","Green Spring (P17), aerial view. Photographic print, 9¼\"x11¼\". Undated.","Scope and Contents Grove Hill (P18), built by John Cowles in the 1830's. Later owned by Mr. C. C. Cowles. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Hankins Family House (P19), owned by the Hankins family. Later owned by Mr. E. K. Pettit. Old house at Six Mile Ordinary, Rt. 60. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Harris House (P20), owned by Harris estate. Located about six miles southwest of Lightfoot and ¾ miles west of Jolly's Mill Pond. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Harris House (P21), six miles southwest of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Harris House (P22), owned by Mr. James Harris. Located about seven miles southwest of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Hickory Neck Episcopal Church (P23), on Rt. 60 above Toano. This is only part remaining of the original church which was built about 1733. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Hockaday Place (P24), owned by B. S. Bowmer. Located about one mile and a half west of Diascund Bridge. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents James' Place (P25), former home of Colonel George James. Later owned by Mr. P. H. Richardson. Located approximately four miles north of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Captain George Lee House (P26), owned by Captain Lee of Newport News.  Located north of Croaker.  Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view.  Undated.","Scope and Contents Lombardy (P27), home of Littleton Waller. Later owned by Mr. Branch Martin. Located west of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents MacDowell's (P28), owned by the Barnes estate. Located about four miles north of Toano on the road leading from the Forge Road to the Williamsburg-Richmond stage road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Martin Home (P29), owned by Miss Williana Wilkinson. Located about half a mile west of Toano on the Forge Road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Martin Home (P30), owned by Miss Williana Wilkinson. Located about half a mile west of Toano on the Forge Road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Martin's Place (P31), two miles northwest of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Olive Branch Christian Church (P32), one and a quarter mile southeast of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Pierce's (P33), located at Toano. This was originally \"Taylor's\" but prior to the Civil War was bought by Mr. Felix Pierce. There were three cemeteries on the place, one belonging to the Taylor family and two so old that no one recollects who was buried in them. After the Pierces died, this place was bought by Mr. Wesley Marston. The chimney and foundations are the only parts of the original house left which bear evidence of early eighteenth century construction, the chimney being laid in Flemish bond on flat side, and English bond on front and back surfaces. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Pinewoods (P34), home of Warburton family. As it appears before it was partially destroyed by fire. Photographic print, 8\"x10\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Pinewoods (P35). Photographic print, 8\"x10\", black and white, showing a rear view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Poplar Grove (P36), Wynne Place. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Powhatan (P37), once owned by Doctor Martin. Later owned by E. M. Slauson. Located a few miles west of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Powhatan (P38), once owned by Doctor Martin. Later owned by E. M. Slauson. Located a few miles west of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Redwood Ordinary (P39), now known as Green Shingle Inn. The present structure was built about 1790 to replace the old burned ordinary. Owned originally by the Redwood family, but subsequently bought by the Slater family. Served almost continuously as a tavern. Located at the intersection of the Forge Road and the Williamsburg-Richmond Stage Road in Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Old Richardson House near Croaker (P40). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents River View (P41), former home of the Norvell family. Later owned by Mr. Herbert Bloomberg. Located on York River about eight miles east of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Slater Place (P42), owned by R. V. Timberlake. Located about five miles northwest of Toano on road from Forge Road to Doncastle's Ordinary on the Williamsburg-Richmond Stage Road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Stuart Place (P43), owned by E. C. Stuart. Located about a mile and a half northwest of Diascund Bridge. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Summer House (P44), owned by Mr. Slater. Located about three miles south of Chickahominy Church on \"Old Brick Mill Road.\" Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Summer House (P45). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a rear view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Vaiden Family House (P46), located at Norge. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Warrenton (P47), known in the past as Rutleigh. Acquired early in the 19th century by the Warren family. Later restored by the Grantham family. Later owned by Mr. Dozier. Located about five miles west of Toano on Forge Road, facing Windsor Castle. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Warrens (P48), owned by the Warren family. Located about four miles west of Toano, just off the Forge Road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Watkins House (P49), owned by J. B. Larson. Later owned by [?] Peterson. Located three and half miles east of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Scope and Contents White Hall Tavern (P50), home of the Geddy family. One and a quarter miles north of Toano. In the interior are a very fine staircase and much early woodwork. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents Windsor Castle (P51), home of William Bush. Owned by Mrs. William Walker Ware. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Unidentified House (52). Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.","Unidentified House (53). Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.","Scope and Contents One booklet: \"Sheriffs of James Citty Countie\" by Barbra M. Cook, Subsheriff, 1994. Gift of Barbra M. Cook, deputy sheriff of James City County via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association. Postcard of Green Shingle Inn, Toano, with a copy of a newspaper article about the Inn which was destroyed in 1963. Copy of a photograph of the hotel near the Powder Magazine, ca. 1900 and a photocopy of photograph of students at Matthew Whaley School. Individuals are identified.","Photostat copies of James City County petitions, beginning in the 18th century.","Jefferson County is now a part of West, Virginia. See related collections: Mss. MsV I1 Jefferson County, W. Va. Merchant's Index, Mss. Acc. 2008.320 Jefferson County, Virginia (W.Va.)Tax Records","List (printed), 1831, of land returned as delinquent for taxes in Jefferson County, Va. [W.Va.]","Bill of sale, 1796, for a slave sold by Robert Hoskins to John Mundell in King and Queen County, Va.Gift of John Lawrence. Three court documents, 1796 and undated, two signed by Ro[bert] Pollard, clerk. (Mss. Acc. 1997.31b). July 1967 \"Bulletin of the King and Queen County Historical Society.\" Agreement between Nicholas Dillard and Polly Browning for 95 acres in King and Queen County. February 11, 1792. (transferred from Gloucester County).","Typed copy of a rent roll, 1769 and copy of a court order, 1830, to pay Lawrence W. Berry for his services as Commonwealth's Attorney","Fragment of the will, 1705, of [?] Clayborne; typed extracts from a tax book, 1815 (65 typed sheets); copy of petition, 1843, from citizens of county to General Assembly of Virginia concerning the disposal of land in the county and a memorandum, 1863, signed by John Letcher concerning the arrest of a slave charged with attempted murder. 4 items.","Scope and Contents Leaflet written by Ann Harrison Booker Darst, \"Parson Skyring\" The Rev. Henry Skyring, 1729-1795, A tribute on the 200th anniversary of his death in 1995. Gift of Ann H.B. Darst. (Acc. 1998.36). Photographs used for the July 1938 William and Mary Quarterly article, \"Homes in the County.\" Daily Press book review of \"A History of Virginia Pioneer Papermakers\" with emphasis on the paper mill in West Point. Programs for the 250th founding of King William County, April 1952. Brochure on King William County, with notes. ca 1960. (Acc. 2008.193)","Typed transcriptions of pew rental lists: 1721 and 1748, for Christ Church Parish; 1750, for [St. Mary's] White Chapel Parish and a newspaper clipping, 13 February 1936, from the Rappahannock Record on the history of St. Mary's White Chapel by Elizabeth Comps Pierce. 4 items. Photographs from 1937: \"Bewdley,\" Lancaster Courthouse (Lancaster Post Office and former jail), Overseer's house on the Black Stump Quarter of Robert Carter's Corotoman Plantation (Weems Post Office), Sipes House (Lively Post Office) and Armstrong House (Palmer Post Office).","Copy of court order, 1830, to pay Edward Campbell for his services as Commonwealth's Attorney for Lee County, Va.","Typed copy of an advertisement in the Daily National Intelligencer, Washington, September 30, 1814, by James Monroe concerning sale of land; letter, 1863, from George K. Fox of Campbell Court House, Virginia, to L.W.S. Hough at Leesburg about Loudoun County bonds; booklet, July 1, 1861, containing names of purchasers of Loudoun County bonds numbered 1-358 and executed copies of July1, 1861 bonds, numbered 361-370 and 387-400 of Loudoun County. 24 pieces. And photograph of site of home of John Champe.","Tax list (tithes, land and carriages), 1769, for St. Martin's Parish (mutilated); document, 1852, in lawsuit of Spicer and Harris v. J. M. Macon, Jr., agent; papers in suits against J. and W.W. Beadles in 1852 and court orders, 1853-1854, to pay Robert T. Gooch for services as witness. 7 items.","Related material: Mss. MsV Lev10 Lunenburg County, Va. Docket, 1843E, Mss. MsV T3 Lunenburg County, Va. Sheriff's Tax Book, 1843","Copy of the will, 1817, of John T. Ravenscroft and accompanying papers and typescript of a letter, 1781, of D. C. Stokes, College Camp, William and Mary, to [Thomas] Nelson regarding Stokes' discharge.","Cumberland Parish Records Alphabetical order by subject. Church Matters J. H. Morrison to Dr. Perry regarding the Vestry and a Chimney. 1862. Correspondence B.M. Atkinson to his father about his Christmas plans. 1860. Thomas E. Locke to William J. Neblett enclosing papers on Buford's will, M. Forland's deed and other papers. Mentions R.B. Atkinson.1855. Financial – Correspondence, 1852-1868 Financial receipts, invoices, letters about the rector's salary. 38 items. 1852-1874. Financial – Taxes Receipt for taxes paid to the Sheriff of Lunenburg. Most are property taxes on 197 acres of land. 17 items. 1856 to 1869. 17 items. 1856-1865. Financial – Treasurer's Reports. 1847-1874. 16 items. Financial Matters – Bonds, Bills, Invoices, Subscriptions, Receipts and Taxes. St. John's Church and others. 35 items. 1848-1904. Some names mentioned: William H. Perry, Treasurer of the Parish; L.J. James E. Davis, Roger B. Atkinson, J.H. Morrison, Roger B. Atkinson, J.J. Deshazer, George Southall, Rev. Thomas E. Locke, Rev. Henry Wall, Rev. J. L. Sothoron, W.S. Watkins, Anderson Stewart, Harrison J. Elden, W.W. Webber, John. S. Hansbrough, Neblett Family, Colonel Sheets, Charles Smith, Mrs. John T. Merryman, Alice Ingram,W.G. Marshall, treasurer of Parish by 1904 and others. Letter from Dr. Bird, Dinwiddie County, about preaching at St. John's Church at the invitation of Mr. Neblett. 1863. Legal Matters Correspondence between Dr. W.H. Perry and A. M. and Richard Nelson, Carrolton, Mississippi about the case, Kreatts vs. Creath where Richard Nelson is representing Dr. Perry in the suit to get payment on a note. 1856-1860:1877 Deed between Malcom Macfarland and Vestry of Cumberland Parish for 190 acres. 1840. Rectors Resignation letter of Rector Dr. J. H. Morrison. May 1863. Vestry Meeting notes and letters about job openings, position acceptance and declining and resignations. 1857-1863. Rectors – Thomas E. Locke Payment accounts for 1838-1854, plus resignation and salary dispute, 1855. Vestry Minutes 1842, 1856, 1857, 1862 and undated. Originally accessioned as 1939.224 as a gift from WH Perry, Jr.","Patent, 1759, granting 400 acres of land to John LeGrand (signed by Francis Fauquier).","Copy of court order, 1830, to pay Horace Stringfellow for his services as Commonwealth's Attorney; and deed of trust, 1932, given by Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover to William E. Carson, covering tracts of land in Madison County, Va. including Hoover's camp on the Rapidan River. Typed draft of an article, \"The Hebron Church Birth Register\" by Arthur L. Keith. 1934.","Volume 3.","Volume 1.","Volume 2.","News clippings about the records of early Mathews County. Ca. 1940. Letter from Ellen R.T. Lane in Woodstock, Virginia to her cousin about her Mother's boarding school. August 15, 1883.","Papers, 1772-1858, relating to Mecklenburg County, Va. Includes copies of court orders, 1830, to pay William B. Banks as Commonwealth's Attorney; William Townes as jailor, and Richard H. Walker as sheriff; church records (including certificate of baptism and letter of removal); marriage licenses, and notes concerning Revolutionary War soldiers, Native Americans and race horses. 17 items. Flyer from Charles B. Stuart, Randolph Macon College, about arrangements to \"…execute analyses of Soils, Marls, Guano, Minerals, \u0026c., and to impart instruction in Analytical Chemistry.\" Undated. Photocopies of flyers for an auction at Prestwould. May 24-25, 1946.","Patent granting 70 acres of land in Mecklenburg County to William Marrable. 1772. On vellum. 15 1/4 x 13 inches. 1 piece. Medium oversize.","Includes rubbing from binding of a Middlesex County record book; copy of orders, 1676, concerning provisions for soldiers to be sent out against Native Americans; copy of petitions, 1700, presented by the freeholders of Middlesex County to the House of Burgesses (from court record book); and copy of receipt, 1781, for supplies furnished by Philip Ludwell Grymes for public use. 4 items. Copies of blueprints of suggested original arrangement of the interior of the second Christ Church as built in 1714. 2 copies. 1938. Three articles on Middlesex County history by Carroll C. Chowning. 1932, 1934 and 1935. Notecard with a pencil sketch of the Christ Church altar.","Lists, 1832-1833, of land returned as delinquent for taxes.","Broadside, 1856, announcing the opening of the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs. Receipt for G.W. Lyle from Henry M. Conrad, Dr. Transfer, Livery, Feed and Sale Stable in Radford, Virginia.,","A list of lands and lots returned as delinquent, 1831. 4 p. 29 cm. Printed. 1 piece.","History, 1869-1931, of Liberty Spring Christian Church, Nansemond County, Va.; and copy of patent, 1663, granting 1850 acres of land to Richard Bennett. 2 items. Photograph of a map, \"The Lower Parish of Nansemond County, Virginia.\" Time period covered is late 1600's. Map made by J.H. Granbery in 1946.","Related material: Mss. MsV Lev11-12 Nelson County Va. Sheriff's Receipt Book, 1811-1837 Mss. MsV T4 Nelson County, Va. Tax Book, 1835 There is no material for Nelson County in the Virginia Counties Collection.","Scope and Contents Papers, 1865-1866 and undated, relating to New Kent County, Va. Includes license, 13 November 1866, to Dr. L. C. Crump to practice medicine and two tax receipts for Crump; receipts, 1865, for U. S. taxes to W. A. Patterson and W. W. Taliaferro; and photograph of St. Peter's Episcopal Church and the \"Criss Cross House.\" 9 items. Handwritten copy of letter from William Gooch to the Vestry of New Kent County recommending Mr. Thacker. Circa 1729/30. Family tree of Robert Christian and Mary Brown of Cedar Grove, New Kent County. 2 items.","Bond, 1862, of Isaac Bales of loyalty to the United States.","Copies of court orders, 1830, to pay William Barnard for his services as jailer and Mordecai Cooke for his services as sheriff and a bond, 1765, of William Harwood and Samuel Langley to Elizabeth Ashley. 3 items.","Legal papers, receipts, correspondence and financial records generated by Northampton County.","Concerning a contract to carry mail between Eastville and Norfolk.","Concerning the use of a horse.","Road construction","Debt suit","Gift of Dr. \u0026 Mrs. H. Norton Mason, 1965.","Copy (printed) of the inventory, 1674, of the estate of Ambrose Feilding of Wickocomoco Hall, Northumberland County, Va. 1 item.","Extracts, 1783-1786, from Ohio County, W. Va. records. 1 piece.","Papers, 1841-1920, relating to Orange County, Va. Includes documents, 1841, concerning lawsuit of Jeremiah Morton v. William C. Willis; and petition, 1920, of citizens of Orange County, Va. concerning the unveiling of a tablet to World War I dead. 4 items. Calling card advertisement for \"Stratford Fund\" tea at St. Thomas House.","Letter, 4 October 1817, from William S. Marye to inhabitants of valley lying between the Blue Ridge and the Massanutten and Fort Mountains concerning the formation of a new county [Page County.] 1 item.","Ledger, Page County, Virginia, 1889-1892, 730 pp., recording the sale of general merchandise to more than 100 individual customers and businesses. One of the customers was the Luray Caverns and Hotel Company. Alphabetical index in front of volume. Sampling of names mentioned in the ledger was provided by the seller: Luray Caverns and Hotel Company, George Lee, William Jenkins, Tannery, Captain W. H. Smith, YMCA Masonic Lodge, Reverend N. W. Hackley, Arlington Hotel Company, Joseph Zirkle, John W. Strickler, Reverend H. M. Wharton, William Rosser, George Carter, Washington Carter, Lee Washington, Marshal Baylis, John A. Jackson, Albert Johnson, William Mundy. 1 volume. Purchase.","Advertisement for sale of \"Fairystones.\"","Two newspaper articles written by Mary Lee Keister Talbot about early residents of South Fork and South Branch Valleys of the Potomac and a new interpretation of Fort Seybert, 2 April and 7 May 1937. 2 items.","A 1771 deed of trust from Tully Choice to James Smith and Company for a piece of land. A marriage license, November 16, 1859, between Reuben H. Carter and Mary M. Robertson and a marriage license, December 20, 1858, between James A. Witcher and Phebe C. Haley. 2 items.","Scope and Contents Inventory and appraisal of the estate of Josiah Marshall including the following: one negroe man, James, oats and corn, farm implements and tools, and blacksmith equipment, signed by Wm Moseley (?), Arthur Moseley (?), and Francis Lewis as appraisers, and signed as ordered and recorded by by Ab[new] Crump. October 20, 1791. 2 pp. A manuscript, \"The Genesis of Powhatan County in Virginia\" by Floyd B. Taylor. 2 items.1936. The materials in this collection were donated by Floyd B. Taylor in 1936 and purchased by W\u0026M Special Collections Research Center in 1981.","Copy of a typed transcription, with index, of vestry minutes of St. Patrick Parish, 1755-1774. Bond given by Joseph Bohan to Philemon Holcombe, March 28, 1788. Printed report \"Second Report of the Prince Edward Landmark Committee,\" 1928. Copy of a print of the Union Theological Seminary. Undated. Notes by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton from the Prince Edward County Courthouse on the prisons in the county. Appeared in the October 1937 William and Mary Quarterly. Notes copied by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton from the Prince Edward County Courthouse about Mr. Burks's buildings as part of a lawsuit between Woodson and Burks in 1767. Typed carbon copy of Declarations of James Pugh, James Moss, James Wooldridge, Peter Grigg and James Taylor about their participation in the Revolutionary War. Other notes concerning Revolutionary War claims. Correspondence between Dr. Earl Gregg Swem and W.S. Morton. 1936. Notes about Prince Edward County by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton. Mentions Richard Darfson, Peter Legrand, Dr. John Fisher, James Thackson, John Meadley, James Roberts, John Moore, Jr., Abraham Venable, Benjamin Augell, John Le Neve, John Bonds, Charles Anderson, Matthias Flournoy, John Pryor Smith, Charles Smith, Zachariah Leigh, Thomas Yuille and Michael McDearman. Dates covered are from mid to late 1700's. Notes taken in 1936.","Papers, 1866-1868, relating to lawsuits in Prince George County, Va. against Matthew W. Raney for debt. 3 items.","Papers, 1728-1752, relating to Prince William County, Va. Mostly documents concerning the settlement of estates but also includes copy of [quit] rent roll, 1738; document, 1752, concerning debt; and guardian's bond, 1743, for Thomas Young. Two items in this collection were donated by Mrs. Marion S. Mallory in 1963.","Papers, 1753-1865, concerning Princess Anne County, Va. Includes writ, 1753, to adjourn the county court of Princess Anne signed by Robert Dinwiddie (gift of Benjamin B. Burroughs) and license, 1865, of Richard H. Baylor, a Baptist minister, to perform marriage ceremonies. 2 items. Photographs of Communion silver of Old Donation Church, communion silver of the Eastern Shore Chapel, the Anthony Fentress house, the Eastern Shore Chapel and the Old Donation Church. 5 photographs.","Indenture between Augustine and Silvester Blidenbrough and Thomas Moss for land in Rappahannock County. January 23, 1661. Incomplete. Includes typescript. Medium Oversize.","Negative photostatic copy of a list, 1724, of African Americans instructed and baptized by John Garzia, minister of the parish of North Farnham. 1 item. Newspaper article on the frozen Rappahannock isolating the Northern Neck in Farnham, Virginia and about an old church in Farnham, Virginia. Newspaper article on the frozen Rappahannock isolating the Northern Neck in Farnham, Virginia and about an old church in Farnham, Virginia. Minutes of September 22, 1774 meeting of the Association of Richmond County \"for the choosing of a committee agreeable to the Seventh Resolve made and entered into by the delegates from the different countys in the Coloney of Dominion of Virginia on Williamsburg the first day of August last.\" (after 1st Virginia Conventon, Revolutionary War) Copy by LeRoy Peachy, Clk. Back of document, \"The meeting of the Association September 22, 1774 for choosing a committee for the County to watch...in defence of American freedom.\" Lists the people chosen for each area of the county.","Related Material: Mss. MsV V1 Poll book, 1782-1810, for election of delegates to the General Assembly from Rockbridge County, [Va.], Mss. MsV Lev14 Rockbridge County, Va. Justice of the Peace Judgement and Execution Book, 1838-1849, Mss. MsV Lev15 Rockbridge County, Va. Court Receipt Book, 1833-1855","Printed list of land and lots returned as delinquent for taxes, dated 1831. Includes lands and lots sold. 10 p. 30 cm. 4 copies. Printed copy of the will of Alexander Telford. 1790. 2 items. Eight licenses, 1800-1805, for 'ordinaries' in Rockbridge County, Va. for Alexander Shield, Christopher Clyee, Nicholas Spring, Win Bailey, Benjamin Darst, Daniel Windell, John Conkey and William Niblack. Deed between Sarah C. Bourland and James Walker, January 2, 1863. Legal documents signed by John Ruff and others in regard to a payment of debts. December 16, 1840 to September 3, 1849. 5 items. Sworn statements certifying commissioners to oversee voting sites in Rockbridge County for presidential election of 1860. 27 items.","Papers, 1770-1871, relating to Rockingham County, Va. Includes two deeds, 1828 and 1871; partial inventory and sale of personal property of James Dever; account book, 1860-1867, of John W. Minnich, a teacher; accounts of the board of school commissioners (including student names); and documents, 1770-1843, concerning lawsuits (including criminal cases and criminal cases involving slaves). 521 items. The lawsuit material begins with Box 19, folder 3 and is divided into two alphabetical groups which are organized by the main person in the lawsuit. The second group is in Box 20. These lawsuits contain various spellings of the participants' names, often two or three spellings in the same page.","Local Election Ballot. May 28, 1891. 2 items. Advertisement cards for Strayer and Lupton in Harrisonburg, Virginia, O'Ferrall and Patterson in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and W.J. Downs, \"Hides wanted.\" Undated. 3 items.","Copy of court order, 1830, to pay Edward Campbell for his services as Commonwealth's attorney for Russell County, Va. 1 item.","Copy of court order, 1830, to pay Jacob Lynch for his service as clerk of the court of Scott County, Va. Advertisement in Morgantown, Virginia for Dr. C.M. Lane's Improved Medical Remedies and Dr. Scott's White Circassian Liniment. 1855.","Broadside order sheet for vegetable seeds by Jonathan Wood of New Lebanon. 1833. Advertisement for a sewing machine by Hottel and Keller in Toms Brook, Virginia. Grocery list on the back. Undated. Advertisement by Strayer and Coffman for their \"Cheap Store\" in New Market, Virginia. March 31, 1810.","Documents, 1779-1819, concerning land transactions in Southampton County, Va. Purchased from Charles Hamilton.","Related material: Mss. Acc. 2008.319 Fredericksburg, Virginia District Court Ledgers, 1787-1840","Documents, 1798-1841, concerning Spotsylvania County, Va. Includes tax bill; legal receipt, 1799, for execution in the lawsuit of Charles Thompson v. Joseph Newton \u0026 John Day; and extracts, 1798, from the will of James Somerville. Campaign speech, handwritten and transcribed, by unknown. August 1788.","Copy of quit rent roll, 1724, for Stafford County, Va. Photocopy of May 8, 1974 Richmond Times-Dispatch article on old papers returned to Stafford County. Newspaper article on the price of negroes in Stafford County in 1722. 1881. Handwritten document (copy of an original) of \"An Act to Exempt Certain German Protestants in the County of Stafford from the Paiment of Parish Levies.\" 1730. Photographs of the Clerk's Office, Courthouse and the County Jail. Undated. Typed history of the Old Courthouse buildings. Undated. Copy of a map, \"Colonial Tidewater, Virginia. Undated.","Scope and Contents Papers, 1927-1939, relating to Surry County, Va. Includes list, 1927, of places in Surry County compiled by A. W. Bohannon; and printed tour guide, 1939, to places in Surry County conducted by Thomas Rolfe Branch, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Card advertising Wigwam Brand Virginia Hams. Undated. Transcribed records which relate to the expulsion of mercenary attorneys. Undated. March 1929 edition of \"Representative\" a newspaper of the Surry County Schools. Patent for Humphrey Baylis for 440 acres in Surry County adjacent to \"College Lines.\" Signed by William Gooch. December 1, 1740. Patent is a gift of Ethel D. Roberts, 1936.","Papers, 1776 and 1932, relating to Sussex County, Va. Includes copy of will, 177[8?], [mutilated] of John Clanton; and newspaper clipping, 1932, concerning court held in Sussex County, 18 July 1776, and considered the first court held under authority of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 2 items.","Collection relating to Warwick County, much of it concerning the Colonial era. Contains legal disputes, estate papers, court findings, petitions, correspondence, etc. Also contains correspondence relative to the Civil War and papers concerning the American Revolution and slavery. This collection has been microfilmed and is restricted to MICROFILM USE ONLY. NOTE: transcriptions of the colonial portion of the records are available in Richard Dunn: Warwick County, Virginia, colonial court records in transcription (F232 .W27 W3 2000 (Swem stacks and Swem Rare Books) and F232 .W27 W3 2008 (Swem Rare Books).","Undated items and photographs.","Scope and Contents 7 May 1659.  Will of Henry Jacksonn [sic] of Mulberry Island; divides his estate amongst son Henry, daughters Sarah and Dorothy, his wife's sons John and Emanuell [sic] Wills, also Emanuell's [sic] wife Elizabeth, his grandchildren Mary and Ann, and his wife Elizabeth Jackson; appoints Robert Pyland and Miles Cary overseers of his estate; witnessed by Robert Pyland, William Gwinett, and William Thomas.  1 p. 11 [Decem]b[e]r 1679.  Orders passed by the court of Warwick County; require a penalty of 400 pounds of tobacco to be assessed on the Owners of \"stone\" horses under fourteen hands allowed to run free in order to prevent the spoiling of the \"Breed of the Countrey\"; whereas \"we find...[the] Continuall destroying [of] our Stocks by Wolves\" a reward of 200 pounds of tobacco is offered for presenting a wolf's head before the magistrate; whereas \"we find...that there are diverse and ill minded people that carry gunns [sic] shooting and ranging upon any man's Land\" it is ordered that anyone carrying a gun on another man's property without the owner's permission shall pay a penalty of 200 pounds of tobacco and forfeit their gun; recorded by William Bolton.  1 p. These documents have not been microfilmed.","Deposition, 1794, taken in Washington County, Va., in the suit of Alexander Quarrier v. Robert Watkins in the Superior Court of Richmond County, Ga. and court order, 1830, to pay Edward Campbell for his services as Commonwealth's attorney for Washington County. Barter Theatre pamplet. 1949. Barter Theatre program for \"Margin for Error.\" 1940-41. Advertisement mailing for flour by Anderson and Shaffer of Hamilton, Ohio to J.B. Mongle and Son of Holston, Virginia. 1891.","Photostat copy of the Memorial of the committee of the County of West Augusta to the convention of the Colony of Virginia. [1774] and transcript. 1 piece.","Scope and Contents Papers, 1830-1878 and undated, relating to Westmoreland County, Va. Includes court orders, 1830, to pay clerk, jailor and sheriff; document, 1845, in lawsuit of William Teffey et al. v. Elizabeth M. Sutton; newspaper clippings; and a printed circular. Newspaper article on Yeocomico Church. Undated.","Printed list, 1831, of lands returned as delinquent for taxes in Wythe County, Va. Accessor's listing of property of Samuel Williams. Includes list of slaves and their ages, acreage, and dwelling house and outbuildings. April 1, 1815. (Mss. Acc. 2001.44)","Related publications:Charles Parish Register available published as Landon C. Bell, Charles Parish, York County, Va. Richmond: Virginia State Library Board, 1932.  There are slight discrepancies in words between the printed versions of the Charles Parish register and the manuscript copy at Swem Library and Bell re-arranged the entries. The original Charles Parish register is at the Virginia State Library. See ledgers, journals and family papers from York County, Virginia.","Plat of A.W. Hitchen's Farm, portion south of U.S. Parkway in Bruton District. Surveyed April 1938.","Scope and Contents Extracts, 1782-1788, from county records; copy of account, 1668, for funeral expenses of Thomas Foote; photocopy of will, 1775, of William Nelson; copy of newspaper advertisement, 1812, for sale of Bell-Field; and print, 1862, from a printed book of Wynn's Mill. December 10, 1942 letter to the Citizens of the Magruder Area from Carl W. Porter, Commander, of the Public Works Department, Naval Operating Base about building a camp for the Seabees and citizens needing to vacate their homes. York County Court House Agreement and Origin. Undated, but after 1941. Indenture between Henry Graves and William Allen for York County land. Original. July 13, 1790. (Gift of John Jennings who noted a relationship between \"Six Mile Ordinary,\" \"Allen's Ordinary\" and Lightfoot, Virginia. Typed transcript of letter from Samuel Terrell from a camp near Yorktown to Major Garrett Minor in Louisa County. September 30, 1781.","Notebook containing a manuscript copy of the Charles and New Pocosin [sic] Parish Register. Volume 1, part 1. Births and Baptisms. 1648-1800. Index.","Notebook containing a manuscript copy of the Charles and New Pocosin [sic] Parish Register. Volume 1, part 2. Births and Baptisms. 1648-1800. Index.","Notebook containing a manuscript copy of the Charles and New Pocosin [sic] Parish Register. Volume 2. Deaths. 1665-1787. Index."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_coll_ssim":["Virginia. General Court"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Virginia. General Court"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Virginia. General Court"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":488,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T00:51:30.800Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArtificial collection of papers relating to various counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Includes current West Virginia Counties of Berkeley, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan, Nicholas and Pendleton because the material was generated when these counties were part of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript copy of resolutions, 1812, passed at a meeting of the freeholders and citizens of Accomack to consider and express their sentiments on public affairs and certain late occurrences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBible records from Accomack and Northhampton Counties. Bible records of Accomack and Northampton Counties compiled by Jean M. Mihalyka in 1993. Volume 9. (Mss. Acc. 1991.46)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBible records of Accomack and Northampton Counties compiled by Jean M. Mihalyka in 1993. Volumes 12 and 13.  Mss. Acc. 1994.74a\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of an original pen and ink sketch of St. George's Church by Rev. James Willis Eastburn. Mss. Acc. 2008.193\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Receipts for quitrents (1750), payments and judgments (1752), tax receipts for 1822 and 1824 and typescript of petitions on juries (1798), concerning selection of juries, addresses, 1918 and 1936, concerning Grace Church, Cismont, Va. Typed manuscript concerning Albemarle Agricultural Society and typescript of minute book, 1817-1828, of Albemarle Agricultural Society as well as material concerning \"Fancy Hill,\" Albemarle County, Va. The materials that comprise this collection were donated by Lucy W. Sneed and John Lawrence and purchased from C. H. Stoneman by W\u0026amp;M Special Collections Research Center in batches between 1940 and 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for payment of £310.12.5 on quitrents in Albemarle County, Virginia. 1p. DS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for payment of £100.1.8 in current money, which was sent by John Smith, Sheriff of Albemarle County, Virginia in part of a judgment due the King of Great Britain from Joseph Thompson [deceased?], Sheriff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetition on selection of juries. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaxes paid on 130 acres of land, horses, and slaves by Thomas Rea, to the Sheriff of Albemarle Co. Va. 1 item. PDS\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor the District of Virginia in a chancery suit of The Bank of Howardsville, et als vs. the president, directors and company of said bank. 28 pp. PD\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 pp. PM.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 pp. PM\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 pp. PM.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e89 pp. PM.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten copy of a bond for Drury M. Burnley who is elected as sheriff of Albemarle County for the term of two years beginning January 1, 1857.  Bond includes names of family members.  Mss. Acc. 1997.31b. Certificate from Free Union Baptist Church for Sister Sally Wood to recommend her for membership. September 1883. Two letters to Bro' (Brother) Dudley from L.W. (Allen) which mentions Licking Hole Church. November 23, 1853 and undated.  Mss. Acc. 2008.193.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Dr. Earl Gregg Swem from W.S. Morton about material for the William and Mary Quarterly. Typed copy of Marriage Bonds of Amelia County, A-Z by husband, ca. 1735-1854. Prepared by J.D. Eggleston. Undated. Photographs of Amelia Sulpher Spring with notes on the reverse side. Undated. Letter to Susie from a correspondent in Mattoax, Virginia. Undated. Mss. Acc. 2008.193.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1769-1803, relating to Amherst County, Va. Includes appointment, 1769, of 18 Justices of the Peace , signed by Lieut. Gov. Botetourt (Lord Botetourt). A bond, 29 January, 1803, due from J. Daniel Day and Solomon Day to Jane Rickets, widow of Thomas Rickets. Attested to by John Reynolds and Noah Guttry. 1 p. cy of ADS. Gift of Mrs. G.M. Kent in 1948.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes deeds, wills, legal documents, and church records (Christians Creek School House, Glebe Burying Ground, Old Stone Church, and Tinkling Spring Church.) 58 items. Purchased 1939 from C. J. Carrier of Bridgewater, VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 piece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[11p.] 23 1/2 cm. Printed. 2 copies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy Rev. John Craig, first pastor of Old Stone Church in Augusta County, Virginia. 24, 14 p. 11x 8 3/3 inches. Mimeographed. 1 piece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 p. 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Mimeographed. 1 piece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. 1 piece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContent regarding payment for land purchased from George Ruebush. 1 piece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 piece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePossibly drawn by Henry Hearman. Includes handrawn map of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrice list card for A.M. Bruce, Wholesale Provision Merchant. Staunton, Virginia. Undated. Photostat of an order issued April 22, 1772 for land forfeiture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Papers, 1767-1870, relating to Bedford County, Va. Includes accounts; bonds; bill of sale, 1783. for slave; copy of appointment, 1772, of James Steptoe as clerk of Bedford Court; and copy of land grant, 1792. Also includes letter, 1876, of A. Granville Bradley describing the Shenandoah Valley and list, undated, of soldiers who served in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution with notes on the formation of Campbell County, Va. Land Grant of 300 acres in Bedford County, Virginia to Job Martin for payment of L1.10 sterling to the Treasury of the Commonwealth. Signed by Henry Lee, Governor. The materials that comprise this collection were donated by W. Mac Jones and Mrs. William C. Segar and obtained or purchased by W\u0026amp;M Special Collections Research Center in batches between the period of 1927 and 1981.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts and invoices to and from various individuals.  Some names include:  Mr. Beaver, John Berk, Mr. Pendleton, Thomas Pugh, Jack Steward, John F. Woods, Charles Dudley, Jeremiah, Moses Eubank, Jacob Wolf, Leroy James and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sally Phelps, aunt, Lynchburg, Virginia to Henry Bigger about purchasing a cow. Includes a registry receipt. August 6, 1884. Photocopy of a letter to \"Willie Dear\" (Mrs. L.B. Bigger of Bellevue, Bedford County) from unknown. July 29, 1886. D.W. Bigger to \"My Dear Brother\" (James H. Bigger) about receiving a photograph of him and about Christmas. December 3, 1894.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence includes a mix of people with no obvious connection to one another, though some letters deal with legal matters. December 24, 1841, Tazewell Headen, Floyd C.H. to ( ) Goggin, Atty at Law, Liberty. Concerns summoning witnesses. December 12, 1843, William Daniel, Jr. of Lynchburg, Virginia to Joseph Wilson, Clerk, Bedford, Liberty (Virginia) about McKinney and Walker repaying debt from Harris and the dismissal of a suit on the validity of Even Snead's will. February 6, 1847, Robert Davis of Lynchburg, Virginia to Joseph Wilson, Clerk of Superior Court of Bedford County with a request to make copies of a statement of debt in the case of Samuel E. White and William T. Smith (late merchants trading as White and Smith) vs four other men. February 12, 1858, Julie Clayton in Ivy Hill to her cousin about a party and marriages of acquaintances. November, 1879, Letter to \"Mr. ---(?)\" from \"Your friend only\" where the writer clearly states that having a relationship with him would bring her no joy and his attention would be in vain and \"our correspondence has closed. May your future life be blessed by a companion worthy of your efforts…Amen.\" March 11, 1889 and March 12, 1889, To \"My dear Susie\" (Mrs. William Bese) possibly from her mother in Chester, Virginia about news of family and friends. The empty envelopes are mostly addressed to the Clerk of the County Superior Court. Some names on the envelopes are A. B. Nichols, J.L. Edwards, Joseph Wilson, William M. Burwell, William Cook and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1869 and early 1900 receipts, one a United States Internal Revenue \"receipt for special tax\" for R.M. Dennis for a business of \"retail dealer ...liquor\" in Roscoe, St. Clair, Missouri for 1870. 1904-1909 letters to Mrs. E.M. Dennis of Bedford County, Virginia from other members of her family and E. Hilton Jackson, a Washington D.C. lawyer about a Claims Court case of (heirs of) Samuel Cline vs the United States where Samuel Cline says he lived in Rockingham County, Virginia but reports show he owned a Cline's Mill in Staunton, Virginia which sold \"large quantities of supplies to the Confederacy....\" The Samuel Cline heirs are claiming their father did not vote for secession and can prove his loyalty to the Union. Other family members include Cyrus Cline and Samuel Cline. Includes a carbon of a February 4, 1908 contract between \"the next of kin and heirs at law of Samuel Cline, deceased, and E. Hilton Jackson\" for Jackson's representation of the family during the claims case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A varied group of legal documents. Account sheet for Robert Fauster to Joel Terrell for 1750 with an 1769 note at the bottom by Chas Servis which states Terrell has \"received no satisfaction for the above ballance.\" On reverse, a note by Jacob Early states \"we the jewry find for the plaintiff...\" Payment to \"Sovereign Lord King George the third\" for an ordinary license for William Mead in Bedford County, Virginia with William Mead and Isham Talbot as witnesses. February 27, 1771. Indenture between Richard Muse and his wife and James Jones. Wythe County. May 10, 1796. Note on reverse spells \"Muse\" as \"Mary???\" Bond report by Thos Lumpkin. Some names mentioned: Boyce Eidson, Martin King, ? Chastain, Richard Lockett, Thomas Wood, Samuel Baker, Edward and William Eads, James Foster, George Wilson, Farthing Hix and other illegible names. undated. Flyer by Richard M. Young, Late Commissioner of the General Land Office with letterhead, \"General Agency at Washington City\" about \"Acts of Congress granting Pensions to soldiers and their widows for services rendered during the Revolutionary War\" with amendments to 1853. Addressed to Joseph Wilson, Clerk of Circuit Court, Liberty, Bedford County, Virginia. undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMostly receipts for Edward Merriman for purchases, but includes a letter, a military record and a recipe for \"John M. Merryman's Cement Wash.\" May 24, 1850 letter to Edward Merriman, Liberty, Bedford County, Virginia from Joseph Anderson in Cincinnati, Ohio about the whereabouts and news of other members of the Merriman Family. December 15, 1898 document states that George S. Merriman was a Private in Company G, 2nd Regiment of the Virginia Volunteers who enrolled on June 24, 1898 to serve for two years and was discharged on December 18, 1898.  Notes that George S. Merriman was born in Batford (Bedford?), Virginia, 43 years of age, 5 foot, 9 and a half  inches tall, fair complexion, blue eyes, gray hair and a farmer. Signed by Ballard P. Hatcher, Captain, in Roanoke, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Poetry, prose and recipes written by different unknown people.  One \"editorial\" is about a tribute to the late Governor Kavanaugh of Maine.  Recipes include \"Sponge Pudding\" and \"Chow Chow Pickle.\"  Includes a headache remedy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelated Collection: Mss. Acc. 2008.321 Berkeley County, Virginia (W.Va.) Tax Records\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Charles J. Faulkner, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to the President of William and Mary, at Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning the name of Berkeley County. September 8, 1873. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of sale for $400, 1807, for the sale of a slave, Dick, by Henry Bowyer to John Robinson. Purchase. Charles Hamilton Auction in 1981.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand Grant, 1803, for Nicholas Casper, in Botetourt County, Va. signed by Governor John Page (1743-1808).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement, 1883 August 18, of George W. Parrish to sell to William Jackson a portion of the tract of land in Brunswick County, Va. called \"the Batt land.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Papers, 1769-1951, relating to Buckingham County, Va. Includes a grant, 1769, of land to Samuel Megginson signed by Lord Botetourt ; indenture (deed) between Chambers and William Norvell, 1836; photograph, 1951, of the Bolling Family of \"Rosney,\"; and accounts and correspondence of the post office at Gravel Hill , Mattie J. West, postmaster (10 items). The materials that comprise this collection were donated to W\u0026amp;M Special Collections Research Center by Willam R. Cocke, Mrs. G. M. Kent, Mr. \u0026amp; Mrs. John Stone, and John D. Weaver in batches between 1940 and 1983. Finding Aid prepared by Cynthia B. Brown, 1983.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Typed list, undated, of justices of the peace, 1782-1824, of Campbell County, Va.; and license, 1860, to marry of Edward Scott Payne and Anna Agnes Oliver. Gift of John Lawrence in 1997. Two court records, 1796 and undated, signed by Cha[rles]s and Williston Talbot. (Acc. 1997.31c).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of minutes, 1811-1814, of courts of enquiry of 26th Virginia regiment of Charlotte County, Va.; extract, 5 June 1833, from court records concerning death of John Randolph of Roanoke; and marriage license, 1823, of Robert Carrington and Joanna T. Bouldin. Typed list of Charlotte County names from about the mid 1700's with notes on Mathis Flournoy and John Prior. Cub Creek Church Memorial program. 1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Papers relating to Chesterfield County, Va. Includes such items as extracts from county records; lawsuits (Vestry of Parish of Manchester v. Overseers of the Poor); commission, 1756, signed by Robert Dinwiddie appointing justices to try slave for burglary; deed; agreement (concerning Gallego Mills); and a broadside, undated, concerning proposed removal of court from Manchester to Chesterfield Court House. Item level inventory available at Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGreenway Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of the will of Robert Hudson, 1866, with codicil dated 1872 (1 piece). Copy of a court order to pay Richard I. Tull for his services as sheriff. 1830. (1 piece). Court order to pay Walter (?) for public services. 1830. Typed manuscript \"A Culpeper Census of 1781\" by A.L. Keith. 37 pages. 1941.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger, 1841-1844, of a grist mill in Culpeper County, Virginia. Includes lists of customers and what the bought, typically wheat and flour. People could also bring their own material and have it ground; the material and the price for grinding is listed in the ledger. Also includes entries for a bill for a cabin for slaves and flour for slaves. 1 item. Purchase. Mss. Acc. 2011.563.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1830-1910, relating to Cumberland County, Va. Includes such items as copies of court orders, 1830, to pay George H. Matthews for service as prosecutor for Commonwealth and S. H. Panack for services as jailor; receipt, 1910, for taxes; plat, 1842, for land owned by Edward Steger; and a newspaper clipping, 1893 October 1, from the Richmond Dispatch. Gift of John Lawrence. Two court documents, one dated 1797, signed by James Morton. (1997.31e)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of Appointment, 1828, of William H. Broadnax, William Wynne, and Edward S. Pegram as commissioners to superintend election of electors for U. S. president and vice president in Dinwiddie County, Va.; and copy of court order, 1830, to pay James Scott for his services as jailor. Cotton circular for Martin, Hill and Co. in Petersburg, Virginia. September 22, 1886.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed, June 21, 1773, from Israel Morris to Michael Goen for 100 acres of land in Dunmore County (Shenandoah County), Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotostats of a petition presented by certain residents of Elizabeth City County to the General Assembly of Virginia, November 30, 1803, in opposition to the proposal to combine the Eaton and Syms charity schools into one school. Photostat of a petition presented by certain residents of Elizabeth City County to the General Assembly of Virginia, December 19, 1803, requesting that the Eaton and Syms charity schools be combined into one school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of a history of Hampton and Elizabeth City County, Va., entitled \"The First Plantation,\" by Marion L. Starkey, ca 1930s. Includes an incomplete index in a separate green book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped extracts, 1663-1791, from Old Rappahannock County [now Essex County.] Extract from a vestry book of Albemarle Parish, Sussex County. 1788. A handwritten list (probably a copy) of a list of names for \"Rose and Gabriel Penn, given under our hands...November 3rd, 1788,\" with a note on reverse \"Subscription for St. Marks Church.\" Another note says this page found in a vestry book in Albermarle Parish on November 26, 1926. Transcript of letter from Hugh Rose, at Geddes, to Col. James Higginbotham about sellling land of Brother Moses, deceased. 24 March 1791. Original order to the Sheriff of Essex County to take James Daniel and James McCall for a court appearance in William Roane vs Daniel and McCall. Signed John Lee. May 30, 1755. (Gift of Benjamin A. Grady). August 23, 2000 letter to Mrs. Harold Little, owner of Clydeside, from H. Franklin Minor, about the McCall Family and ownership of Clydeside.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGround plan of Woodlawn, home of Nellie Custis Lewis, in Fairfax County. In ink on tracing cloth.  19 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches.  1 piece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Papers, ca. 1743-1793, relating to Fairfax County, Va. Includes notes, concerning register of Pohick Church; newspaper clipping, concerning court record book of Fairfax County; survey, 1841, of tract of land; and plan, undated, of \"Woodlawn,\" home of Nellie Custis Lewis; court records, 1743-1783; and an account book, 1793, of Joseph Birch, keeper of Turnpike Number 2, which has two entries, 9 October 1792 and 13 April 1793, concerning George Washington. 1963 gift from Mrs. Marion S. Mallory. 17 items. Postcards of Old Court House, published by Ernest L. Robey's Drugstore. 3 items. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of tax list, 1782-1799, for Fauquier County, Va.. Court order, 1830, to pay James English for his services as jailor and for cleaning and furnishing firewood and candles for the courthouse. Catalogue of Fauquier Institute for Young Ladies. Session 1892-93. Owned by Miss E. Chappelear.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand grant, 15 May 1780, given to Samuel McDowell for 1,000 acres of land in Fayette County, Va. [W.Va.] signed by Patrick Henry. For those interested in Patrick Henry see the Patrick Henry Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBroadside, 12 July 1941, advertising July 12 as the day for all citizens over thirteen years of age to register as volunteers for the civil defense program in Fluvanna County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote on document: \"…record book…is no longer public property, the original book being in private hands…\" Typed carbon copy of \"The History of Rivanna Parish in the County of Fluvanna, Virginia\" by Louis H. Stoneman. 1847- 1912. Pamphlet with the Charter and By-Laws of the State Bank of Columbia. 1900. An advertisement of the Commissioner's sale of Upper Bremo Tract where Mary B. and Lelia B. Cocke lived. 1926. The Midland Virginian, Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia article, \"Old receipts show that Fluvanna farms tithed to aid Confederacy.\" February 13, 1941. Notebook called \"Weather Report\" where the daily weather conditions were recorded. 1886-1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoices, receipts, accounts, laden lists, letters and other accounting documents from merchants in Columbia, Virginia. 1880-1910. 465 pieces. Merchants include: Jenkins and Foster, William B. Perkins, John F. Shepherd, Stoneman Brothers, Dr. Philip J.Winn, and George T. Zachary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Invoices, receipts, accounts, laden lists, letters and other accounting documents from merchants in Columbia, Virginia. 1880-1910. 465 pieces. Merchants include: Jenkins and Foster, William B. Perkins, John F. Shepherd, Stoneman Brothers, Dr. Philip J.Winn, and George T. Zachary. (Related material: 65 Sh5 Shepherd and Patton Papers). Broadside for \"The Celebrated Horse-Tamer Prof. W. Rouzer will give a lecture on ...June 7th...\" Certificates from residents of \"Kent's Store, Fluvanna County, Virginia, Oct. 2nd 1876\" who have taken the lectures are listed. Names listed are from Fluvanna, Pittsylvania and Charlotte Counties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle on John Hartwell Cocke. 2010. Acc. 2010.605.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolders 1 - 5 are papers, 1772-1800, (group of 481 pieces) relating to 178 suits in Franklin County, VA and 16 other papers. Some papers are fragments. 481 pieces. The spelling of names varies greatly and as it was found to be impracticable to give all forms of each name, one spelling only is shown. The materials donated by John Lawrence in 1991, by Fred Alouf in 1959, and obtained from Joseph K. Ruebush in 1938. Folder 6 contains later, unrelated accessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWork Projects Administration Writers' Program. \"The White Man Comes to Stay,\" \"War Whoops in the Wilderness,\" and \"Explorers in the Wilderness.\" 1941. Two court documents signed by James Callaway. 1797. Mss. Acc. 1997.31f. 28 copies of certificates saying people attended the September New London District Court, signed by James Steptoe, Clerk of the Franklin County District Court. 1797. Includes 4 fragments. Names include: John Arthur, Moses Greer, Luke Standefer, Richard Goggin, Samuel Patterson, John Cheetwood, Charles Lumsden, Thomas Haile, Shelton Brown, Shelton Taylor, Joel Chitwood, William Cheetwood, Lewis Turnbull, William Boswell, James Prunty, Thomas Towler, Lewis Davis, John Hayle, George Ferguson, Dudley Lumsden, Benjamin Griffith, John Houle and Thomas Fowler. Mss. Acc. 1997.52\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Documents concerning land (deeds and list of lands returned as delinquent); proceedings, 1812, of meeting held at Winchester; and advertisement, undated, offering the Marlbro' Iron Works for sale or rent. 5 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The original 1938 accession were papers relating to Gloucester Count, 1660-1878, and taken from the William Carter Stubbs Papers (I). They were purchased from Charles F. Heartman. They comprise Boxes 8, 9 and 10, folders 1-28. Includes letters, accounts (many concerning estates), legal documents, tax lists, marriage licenses and military records (including orders, 1815 and 1820 appointing patrollers to visit slave quarters). Many items concern the Baytop and Stubbs families. 2134 items. Letters, 1774-1878, filed chronologically. Invoices, receipts, etc. filed alphabetically under name of person or estate. The remaining boxes contain later accessions. Notes and photocopies relating to Gloucester County during the Revolution collected by Joanee Ryan in preparation for M.A. thesis (Mss. Acc. 1988.24). Photostat copy of transcript of \"Gloucester County, Virginia Places and Names\" by Charles E. Hatch, Jr. Yorktown, Virginia. September 15, 1979 (Mss. Acc. 1999.66). Photographs of and brochures of Gloucester County, plus correspondence of different families of Gloucester County about personal and legal matters, 1795-1953, donor unknown. John Buckner Reports, undated (Mss. Acc. 2008.193). Newspaper article on Wilbur Templeman a popular and longtime barber in Gloucester (Mss. Acc. 2010.575). Related material: See also \"A Guide to Gloucester County, Virginia Historical Manuscripts, 1651-1865\" (Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1976). For those interested in the Baytop family see the Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem inventory in each folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcra-Baytop. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBaytop-Bridges. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBaytop Family. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBaytop Family. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBridges-Corr. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDame-Gloucester County School Commissioners. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHall-Kemp. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawson-Nuttall. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOakes-Purcell. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRansone-Stubbs. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTabb-Wood. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers of persons not included in folders 4-14. Inventory not available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo or more persons/families mentioned.  Unidentified pieces and fragments.  Includes an index of a ledger and five memorandum books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1825 Court docket, records of official examinations of boundary lines (1825-1848, undated), copy of certificate appointing Peter Kemp and James Baytop processioners...sixth precinct (undated) and unofficial memoranda on cases (undated).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmory-Ash.  Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBall-Byrd. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCampbell - DuVall. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwards - Hughes.  Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames - Oliver. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePitt - Sutton. Item inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem survey in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItem inventory in folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"Gloucester County, Virginia Places and Names\"  (Mss. Acc. 1999.66)  First half of book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"Gloucester County, Virginia Places and Names\"  (Mss. Acc. 1999.66)  Second half of book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Story of Elmington\" by Polly Cary Legg. Possibly a Work Projects Administration Writers' Program story.  December 1, 1941.  Photographs of Grace Church and The Glebe. Donation ticket for Ware Church, 1953, and a Christmas Card with picture of Ware Church. Photographs of \"New Bottle\" House, Undated.  Photograph of \"Painting of Gloucester from the Water\", courtesy of Mariner's Museum.  Conservation State Organization rules and regulations, undated.  \"Programme at the Laying of the Cornerstone and the Unveiling of the Monument,\" 1889.  Brochure on \"The Belle Roi Female School\" in Gloucester, Virginia, 1855.  Facts about Gloucester, copy, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1795 and 1796 - Indenture between Thomas Whiting and Mary his wife of Gloucester and John Singar of Norfolk, Virginia on July 1, 1795,  Plat of land of William DuVal for John Singar.  June 15, 1796 1801, 1802 and 1804 -  Document binding John Thruston of Abington Parish, Gloucester County, to Sarah Tabb, who is relinquishing her right of dower, for land of John Stephens, September 2, 1801.  Indenture between Edward Busbie, Senior of Abington Parish, Gloucester County and Benjamin Marnix for land in Gloucester County, January 4, 1802.  Indenture between Henry Whiting and William Singleton for land in Gloucester County, February 1, 1802.  Indenture between Richard Singleton and Nelly Thornton, his wife, of the County of Gloucester, and John Singar for land, April 2, 1804. 1810 -1825 and undated - Account of Estate of John Singar for 1810-1818.  Letter to Dr. William Taliaferro, Gloucester Court House, from Richard H. Johnson of Hanover County, Virginia concerning his claim against the Mr. Carter who was his tenant, May 31, 1822.  Receipt Book, bound with string, with names, amount of money received and reason, 1825.  Letter to Richard M. Segan, late Sheriff of Middlesex County, Virginia regarding taking money from Bogg's benefit in case against James Critten.  Undated. 1829-1857 - Letter to Walker Jones of Gloucester Courthouse from H. Wilkinson of Petersburg, Virginia about Mr. Stubblefield offering $150 for settlement of Wilkinson's business.  Lists 1829 and 1830 Rockingham Season accounts, March 31, 1834.  Letter to Miss H.B. Booth, Gloucester County, about an account, June 5, 1834. Article of Agreement between Alfred Billups, Gloucester County, and Jacob Vreeland of Bergen County, New Jersey for tract of land on York River in Gloucester County, October 6, 1834.  Letter from T.B. Whiting of St. Marks, Florida to M.C. Booth in Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia regarding accusation of debt, R. M. Thornton and A.L. Dabney, February 26, 1837.  Receipt for John W. Puller for items purchased from T.B. Taliaferro, 1856 and 1857. Thomas J. Banks Correspondence and Accounts, 1826-1838 - Two partial account books in the same handwriting as the William and Thomas Banks book.  William Banks is mentioned in one of them, 1826-1830.  Accounts of William and Thomas Banks, Oyster deposit on the River. Partial account book, 1833-1836.  Thomas T. Bailey of Baileysville, Tennessee to Thomas J. Banks about collecting and sending money that he was collected, July 23, 1835.  Letter to Thomas J. Banks of Gloucester, Virginia  from James M. Rasin and Company regarding wheat and repairing a Straw Cutler.    Includes Receipt and statement., September 17, 1835.  Letter to Thomas J. Banks of Gloucester, Virginia from Samuel Crane of Richmond, Virginia about the two negroes that were part of Banks' brother's estate.  John Carlton, deceased, is mentioned,  March 26, 1836.  Letter to Thomas J. Banks of Gloucester Court House regarding rent, December 5, 1836.  Letter from Robert Nicholas of Richmond, Virginia to Jefferson Stubbs of Gloucester County, Virginia regarding the suit in Henrico County, Virginia with T.J. Banks, administrator of John Banks, deceased, regarding two negroes, April 3, 1838. Christopher Jones Correspondence and Documents, 1824-1826 -  Note sent by John Field to the Courthouse for Christopher Jones or Thomas Banks about a receipt, July 31, 1824.  Letter to Christopher Jones of Gloucester County from H. Boggs of Baltimore, Maryland concerning settlement with a John Henry and Mr. Jones who is possibly the brother of Christopher Jones, September 13, 1825.  Indenture between Christopher T. Jones and Mann Page Trustees under a deed of trust between William Wilkins and Mann page and Christopher T. Jones to secure for to Thomas Smith and John Tabbs, September 5, 1825.  Letter to Christopher Jones about will that was proven October 3, 1808, with Henry Curry as the testator and Susanna Curry the Executrix and lists other cases.  The writer, from Richmond, Virginia,  also turns down offer to visit the area while extolling the pleasures of the rural setting, August 28, 1825.  Letter to Christopher Jones of Gloucester County from H. Boggs of Baltimore, Maryland concerning a settlement, December 1825.  Letter to Christopher Jones of Gloucester County from George Haskins concerning bringing to Chancery Court his suit against James Montague, Philip Montague, Thomas G. Cridington and Robert Dobbins, January 22, 1826. Kemp Family, 1825 and undated -  Letter to Christopher Jones of Gloucester County from Robert Tubman concerning suit against Peter Kemp, November 30, 1825.  Letter to William Browne Judge of the Chancery District of Williamsburg about Peter, Francis, William and Sarah Kemp against John Johnston, admr of Robert Kemp, deceased, Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarbon of typed notes on John Buckner (ca. 1630-1695) of Gloucester County, Virginia.  He brought the first press and printer, William Nuthead, to Virginia about 1680.  Prepared by Mary Goodwin, Research Department, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.  Typescripts of brief biographical sketches of John Buckner and his family from Tyler's Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography and an account of William Nuthead, from first printer in Virginia and Maryland, from J.C.Oswald, Printing in the America's.  13 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaily Press newspaper article, \"County Barber Still Cutting,\" about Wilbur Templeman and his barbershop. His daughter, Linda Templeman, worked in Swem Library, Government Documents.  August 9, 2009.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatent for 4753 acres of land in Goochland County, Virginia granted by King George II to Michael Holland. 1744. On vellum. 13 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches. Signed by Lieutenant Governor William Gooch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1744-1832, relating to Goochland County, Va. Includes patent, 1744, to Michael Holland (signed by Gooch and granted by King George II); will, 1815, of Nathaniel Davidson; court order, 1830, to pay William Pope for services as prosecuting attorney; and document, 1831, concerning the lawsuit of the Commonwealth v. John N. Davis; letter, 1832, from Pleasant Turner to Archibald Bryce; and plat, 1839, of land owned by William Ford. Patent filed in Oversize. Court Docket to November 1795, list of all cases. Commonwealth vs. John N. Davis, 1831 Will of Nathaniel Davidson, 1815 Plat tract of land owned by William Ford, 1839 Oversize patent, for land, signed by Gov. Gooch, granted by King George II to Michael Holland, 1744 Court order to pay William Pope for services as prosecuting attorney, 1830 Letter, Pleasant Turner to Capt. Archibald Bryce, 1832 Court Docket to November 1795, list of all cases\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThey appear to be a general store, ordering food items, clothe, clothing, shoes, horseshoes, nails, tobacco and other items.  Their shipping address is Irwin's Station or Bula in Goochland County.  Over 120 items. 1882-1883. Court Summons.  Names mentioned:  William Southworth, J. Clemens, Jos. Bullock, William Johnson, Julian Martin, Lucy Randolph, Anderson Matthews and S.W. Mason.  5 items.  1853. Archibald D. Perkins Accounts.  One receipt from Lucy Randolph.  39 items. 1836-1893. Typed carbon copy of a biography of Benjamin Waller and letters of Benjamin Wood.  Undated. Related items:  MsV Ame18  B. R. Cowherd Ledger\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of survey, 29 September 1804, of land in Greenbrier County Va. [W.Va.] for heirs of William Humes and surveyed by Alexander Welch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA typed list of voters for 1800. Court order to pay William Faulkner for his services as sheriff.  1829.  copy. Court order to pay Samuel Pointer for his services as sheriff.  1830.  copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed (mutilated), 1727, from John Guess to Thomas Denton for land in Hanover County, Va.; receipt, 187[?] for taxes to Joseph Henry; and appeal, 1894, for aid in building a church in a needy neighborhood, with a list of names of contributors attached. Title page, with a photograph of the Clay house, from \"Life and Speeches of Henry Clay.\" 1843. Signature on front page: Mattie R. Feild, Millbrook, Virginia, 1886. Photostat copy of town lot layout of Hanover along the Pamunkey River with a tax list of names. March 17, 1738 or 39.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Ledger, 1917 of a store in Studley, Hanover County, Virginia, recording purchases made by various customers. Customers' names are listed, and occasionally their town or county. A more detailed description is provided by the seller:  \"Ledger is a Eagle Flat Opening Book No. 895 (sold by Reinbach \u0026amp; Schwartz Stationers, Richmond, Va.). Measures: 8 1/4\" x 12 3/4\" x 1 1/4\",  287 pages.  This Ledger begins in May, 1917 and ends December 7, 1917.  Entries such as: Miss Ellen Timberlake, 2 Loaves of Bread .10;    Babes Bowles, 2 Cultivator Teethe .50, 1 Plow Point .16;  Mrs. Austin, 1/2 Plug Tobacco  .05\" \"On Page 158 it has a stamp on it: Do your bit! BUY A LIBERTY LOAN BOND, Inquire at any Bank or Post Office. Several Pages are Stamped (with a Postage Stamper): Studley, Va. (date).\" \"There are entries for food products, farm supplies, coca cola, tobacco, coffee, oil, medicine, etc.....\" Purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHardy County is now part of West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed, 1858, from Westfall Garret to Henry Richmond covering a tract of land in Hardy County, Va. [W.Va.]. Court documents signed by Ed Williams, Clerk, 1797. Donated in 1997 by John Lawrence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePortion of printed list, 1831, of land returned as delinquent for taxes in Harrison County [W.Va.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Papers, 1726-1871 and undated, relating to Henrico County, Va. Includes land patent, deeds, documents concerning lawsuits, estate document, and receipt for fee for apprehending a slave. 14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder, 1784, to the sheriff of Henry County, Va. to call jurors in the lawsuit of Commonwealth v. Anderson McGwire in the Virginia General Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy of a booklet, \"Fork Boykin\" compiled by Miss Genie Cory. Undated. Photograph of St. Luke's Church. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndex or register of names in a ledger divided alphabetically with tabs. Names include first and surnames, men and women, and all have a number noted beside them. There is no location or date or purpose noted on the register, but by using census data, the register was created circa 1900 and probably in the Isle of Wight County area of Virginia. Medium Oversize.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn artificial collection of material, 1687-1924, relating to James City County, Virginia. Includes copies of court records, farm censuses, tax receipts, church brochures, and photographs. Box 12 and 13 are mostly a gift from Robert T. Slater.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlueprints of tracts of land in James City County. Carlton Casey land in Jamestown District, surveyed November 6, 1950; William Washington Estate, surveyed October 26, 1951; Mrs. Bessie Carmine property on Old Jamestown Road, surveyed September 2, 1940; Plat of subdivision of portion of Sarah Jones Tract, surveyed April 9, 1948; Survey of Bush Neck Road, Rye Patches and Wallace's Tract, surveyed June 1939; Frederick J. Keck farm in Stonehouse District, surveyed October 1937; Indigo Dam, estate of William Allen Jones, decd, in Jamestown District, surveyed October 1931; Rollo Subdivision, surveyed on November 26, 1930; Stephen's Tract #2, J.W. Penick the owner, in Stonehouse District, surveyed May, 1926; Timberlake Property, surveyed April 23, 1930 and Walthal Tract, surveyed June 1928.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1687 August 8. Copy of will of John Holder, deceased. Proved at the County Court held at James City, 8 August 1687 by the oaths of John White and Dorothy Peach. Recorded by W. Edwards, Cl[erk of] Co[u]r[t]. 1 page. Photostat of Document Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Copy of a law enacted by General Assembly, 17 February 1644, prohibiting desertions of plantations that have been seated; persons deserting their plantations are not to burn their houses but will receive as many nails as were expended in building them. Signed by William Robertson (d. 1739) Cl[er]k Gen[era]l Ass[emb]ly [from 1702-1738]. 1 page. Document Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1805 February. Copy of pages from a court record signed by Ro[bert] B. Armistead. \"Found among the ruins of the old Court House at Williamsburg, Va. 1864.\" 2 pages. Copy of Document Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1813 February 12. Copy of advertisement in the Richmond Enquirer for the rent or lease of the Greenspring Estate. 1 page. Typewritten Copy of Newspaper Clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1820 September 1. Census record of James City county for 1820. Signed by Rich[ar]dson Henley, assistant to the Marshal. (Note reads \"From Lib. of Cong.\") 1 page. Photostat of Document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1827 June 30. Copy of Complaint brought by Archer Hankins, late sheriff of James City and Committee of the esate of James Banks, deceased, against William Gregory, sheriff of King William County, appointed to represent William Gregory, Christopher Johnson, Ann Dudley, G. R. Lambert Meredith, Martha Bingham, Julia Bingham, Jno. Bingham, Geo. Bingham, [?] Lambert (wife of Eugene Sullivan), and Stephen Bingham, the heirs of Stephen Bingham. Concerns a tract of land in James City county called \"Mount Folly.\" 3 pages. Document Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1847 May 6. Memorandum of deed of trust executed on 21 Sep[tember] 1841 is filed as an exhibit in the Chancery Suit in the Supr[eme] Court of James City County and City of Williamsburg by Upshur's executors vs. Pryor and others. Signed by P. P. Mayo. Fragment. Document Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1849 January 19. Copy of advertisement in the Richmond Enquirer of the Hickory Neck Academy, James City County, Virginia. 1 page. Typewritten Copy of Newspaper Clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1882-1893 and undated. Tax receipts, James City County, Virginia of Alexander Preston and Alfred Epps and a few miscellaneous receipts. Printed Document Signed. (13 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1896 June 1. \"The James City Cavalry, Its Organization and Its Service.\" (Company H, Fifth Regiment, mustered into service 22 May 1861). From \"Our Confederate Column\" in the Richmond Dispatch. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1928 February 12. Bulletin from the Mount Vernon M. E. Church, South, Toano, Virginia. H. Conrad Blackwell, Pastor. 4 pages. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1929 June 30. Church Bulletin of Five Forks Church, Old Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, Virginia. Rev. James M. McKnight, Pastor. 4 pages. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1946 October 6. Invitation to Homecoming Day at James River Baptist Church, J. E. Bowman, Pastor. 1 page. Typewritten Copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1948 July 27. Letter. Mrs. William Lawrence Gatewood at New York to Brantley Henderson, Jr. at Williamsburg, [?] house and lot, and a store in Toano, Virginia. 4 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo Year. June 27. Program from Our Saviors Lutheran Church, Norge, Virginia in honor of the visit of the Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess of Norway. 1 page. Typewritten Copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated. Program of The County Council of Women's Clubs presenting \"Days in James City County from 1609 to 1817.\" 1 page. Printed Material. (3 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated. Bulletin of Hickory Neck Church, Blissland Parish, Toano, James City County, Virginia. 2 pages. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated. Brochure of the James City County Chamber of Commerce, Toano, Virginia. 2 pages. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1920. Economic Survey for James City County 1920 Census. 1 page. Typewritten Document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1923 October 9. S. H. Hobbs, Jr., Rural Social Science, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. to Miss Mabel Massey, County Home Demonstration Agent, Williamsburg, Virginia. Is sending bulletin compiled from information secured in a survey of the townships in Chatham Co. [N. C.] and a bulletin on Johnston Co. [N. C.]; discusses types of surveys used by his department. 2 pages. Typewritten Letter Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1924 February 12-13. Program of the Peninsula Farmers Institute. 1 page. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Undated. \"A Glimpse of the Progressive School System of James City County\" by H. L. Harris, Supt. of Schools. 7 pages. Typewritten Document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated. \"Health Conditions in James City County.\" 4 pages. Typewritten Document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Samples of typed farm census forms from other locations in 1923: Chowan County, North Carolina; Henderson County, North Carolina; Hertford County, North Carolina; Madison County, North Carolina; Nash County, North Carolina and North Carolina 1923 farm census (blank form. 4 pages). Blank survey on \"Farm Home Conditions\" from Pittsylvania Co., Virginia (2 pages). Sample form for farm census (3 pages). Survey of Whitmell Community made by Rural Sociology Class (3 pages).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated. Farm survey, James City County. 8 pages. Printed Material. (17 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated. Farm survey, James City County. 8 pages. Printed Material. (17 items).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1922 June 13. Johnston County: Economic and Social (a Laboratory Study in the Rural Social Science Department of the University of North Carolina) by W. M. Sanders, Jr. and G. Y. Ragsdale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1922 October. Economic and Social Survey of Albemarle County, University of Virginia Record Extension Series, vol. VII, No. 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1922 November 16. How Farm Tenants Live by J. A. Dickey and E. C. Branson. University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 47 pages. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1923 Virginia Agricultural Census, U. S. Department of Agriculture co-operating with the State Department of Agriculture. 32 pages. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Colonel William Allen House (P1), formerly owned by Miss Fanny Allen and later owned by Mr. Mercer Taylor. Four miles west of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Ashland Farm (P2), formerly owned by Captain William Morecock. Located at Diascond station. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Binn's Place (P3), located west of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Carter's Grove (P4), home of Mrs. Archibald McCrea. South of Williamsburg. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Carter's Grove (P5), home of Mrs. Archibald McCrea. South of Williamsburg. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Carter's Grove (P6). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Carter's Grove (P7). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Carter's Grove (before restoration) (P8). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"Cowlesville\" (P9), original home of the Cowles family. Owned by C. C. Cowles. Located on Rt. 603 just north of Rt. 610, six miles west of Toano on the Old Forge Road (much remodeled). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurtis Home (P10). Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurtis Home (P11). Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Edwards Place (P12), owned by Mrs. Marcus Cottrell. Located four miles northwest of Toano at the intersection of Rt. 601 and Rt. 603. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gatewood Place Kitchen (P13), owned by C. Ordway. Located one half mile west of Toano on Forge Road. Now destroyed. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGreen Spring (P14), ruins of the second house at Green Spring, built about 1800. The foundations of the Sir William Berkeley house at Green Spring are south of this house about two hundred yards. Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Green Spring (P15), aerial view. Photographic print, 7\"x9\". Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Green Spring (P16), aerial view. Photographic print, 7\"x9\". Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGreen Spring (P17), aerial view. Photographic print, 9¼\"x11¼\". Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Grove Hill (P18), built by John Cowles in the 1830's. Later owned by Mr. C. C. Cowles. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hankins Family House (P19), owned by the Hankins family. Later owned by Mr. E. K. Pettit. Old house at Six Mile Ordinary, Rt. 60. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Harris House (P20), owned by Harris estate. Located about six miles southwest of Lightfoot and ¾ miles west of Jolly's Mill Pond. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Harris House (P21), six miles southwest of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Harris House (P22), owned by Mr. James Harris. Located about seven miles southwest of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hickory Neck Episcopal Church (P23), on Rt. 60 above Toano. This is only part remaining of the original church which was built about 1733. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Hockaday Place (P24), owned by B. S. Bowmer. Located about one mile and a half west of Diascund Bridge. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents James' Place (P25), former home of Colonel George James. Later owned by Mr. P. H. Richardson. Located approximately four miles north of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Captain George Lee House (P26), owned by Captain Lee of Newport News.  Located north of Croaker.  Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view.  Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Lombardy (P27), home of Littleton Waller. Later owned by Mr. Branch Martin. Located west of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents MacDowell's (P28), owned by the Barnes estate. Located about four miles north of Toano on the road leading from the Forge Road to the Williamsburg-Richmond stage road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Martin Home (P29), owned by Miss Williana Wilkinson. Located about half a mile west of Toano on the Forge Road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Martin Home (P30), owned by Miss Williana Wilkinson. Located about half a mile west of Toano on the Forge Road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Martin's Place (P31), two miles northwest of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Olive Branch Christian Church (P32), one and a quarter mile southeast of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Pierce's (P33), located at Toano. This was originally \"Taylor's\" but prior to the Civil War was bought by Mr. Felix Pierce. There were three cemeteries on the place, one belonging to the Taylor family and two so old that no one recollects who was buried in them. After the Pierces died, this place was bought by Mr. Wesley Marston. The chimney and foundations are the only parts of the original house left which bear evidence of early eighteenth century construction, the chimney being laid in Flemish bond on flat side, and English bond on front and back surfaces. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Pinewoods (P34), home of Warburton family. As it appears before it was partially destroyed by fire. Photographic print, 8\"x10\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Pinewoods (P35). Photographic print, 8\"x10\", black and white, showing a rear view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Poplar Grove (P36), Wynne Place. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Powhatan (P37), once owned by Doctor Martin. Later owned by E. M. Slauson. Located a few miles west of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Powhatan (P38), once owned by Doctor Martin. Later owned by E. M. Slauson. Located a few miles west of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Redwood Ordinary (P39), now known as Green Shingle Inn. The present structure was built about 1790 to replace the old burned ordinary. Owned originally by the Redwood family, but subsequently bought by the Slater family. Served almost continuously as a tavern. Located at the intersection of the Forge Road and the Williamsburg-Richmond Stage Road in Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Old Richardson House near Croaker (P40). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents River View (P41), former home of the Norvell family. Later owned by Mr. Herbert Bloomberg. Located on York River about eight miles east of Toano. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Slater Place (P42), owned by R. V. Timberlake. Located about five miles northwest of Toano on road from Forge Road to Doncastle's Ordinary on the Williamsburg-Richmond Stage Road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Stuart Place (P43), owned by E. C. Stuart. Located about a mile and a half northwest of Diascund Bridge. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Summer House (P44), owned by Mr. Slater. Located about three miles south of Chickahominy Church on \"Old Brick Mill Road.\" Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Summer House (P45). Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a rear view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Vaiden Family House (P46), located at Norge. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Warrenton (P47), known in the past as Rutleigh. Acquired early in the 19th century by the Warren family. Later restored by the Grantham family. Later owned by Mr. Dozier. Located about five miles west of Toano on Forge Road, facing Windsor Castle. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Warrens (P48), owned by the Warren family. Located about four miles west of Toano, just off the Forge Road. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Watkins House (P49), owned by J. B. Larson. Later owned by [?] Peterson. Located three and half miles east of Lightfoot. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents White Hall Tavern (P50), home of the Geddy family. One and a quarter miles north of Toano. In the interior are a very fine staircase and much early woodwork. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Windsor Castle (P51), home of William Bush. Owned by Mrs. William Walker Ware. Photographic print, 5\"x7\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified House (52). Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white, showing a front view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified House (53). Photographic print, 3½\"x5¾\", black and white, showing a side view. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents One booklet: \"Sheriffs of James Citty Countie\" by Barbra M. Cook, Subsheriff, 1994. Gift of Barbra M. Cook, deputy sheriff of James City County via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association. Postcard of Green Shingle Inn, Toano, with a copy of a newspaper article about the Inn which was destroyed in 1963. Copy of a photograph of the hotel near the Powder Magazine, ca. 1900 and a photocopy of photograph of students at Matthew Whaley School. Individuals are identified.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotostat copies of James City County petitions, beginning in the 18th century.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJefferson County is now a part of West, Virginia. See related collections: Mss. MsV I1 Jefferson County, W. Va. Merchant's Index, Mss. Acc. 2008.320 Jefferson County, Virginia (W.Va.)Tax Records\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList (printed), 1831, of land returned as delinquent for taxes in Jefferson County, Va. [W.Va.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of sale, 1796, for a slave sold by Robert Hoskins to John Mundell in King and Queen County, Va.Gift of John Lawrence. Three court documents, 1796 and undated, two signed by Ro[bert] Pollard, clerk. (Mss. Acc. 1997.31b). July 1967 \"Bulletin of the King and Queen County Historical Society.\" Agreement between Nicholas Dillard and Polly Browning for 95 acres in King and Queen County. February 11, 1792. (transferred from Gloucester County).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped copy of a rent roll, 1769 and copy of a court order, 1830, to pay Lawrence W. Berry for his services as Commonwealth's Attorney\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragment of the will, 1705, of [?] Clayborne; typed extracts from a tax book, 1815 (65 typed sheets); copy of petition, 1843, from citizens of county to General Assembly of Virginia concerning the disposal of land in the county and a memorandum, 1863, signed by John Letcher concerning the arrest of a slave charged with attempted murder. 4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Leaflet written by Ann Harrison Booker Darst, \"Parson Skyring\" The Rev. Henry Skyring, 1729-1795, A tribute on the 200th anniversary of his death in 1995. Gift of Ann H.B. Darst. (Acc. 1998.36). Photographs used for the July 1938 William and Mary Quarterly article, \"Homes in the County.\" Daily Press book review of \"A History of Virginia Pioneer Papermakers\" with emphasis on the paper mill in West Point. Programs for the 250th founding of King William County, April 1952. Brochure on King William County, with notes. ca 1960. (Acc. 2008.193)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped transcriptions of pew rental lists: 1721 and 1748, for Christ Church Parish; 1750, for [St. Mary's] White Chapel Parish and a newspaper clipping, 13 February 1936, from the Rappahannock Record on the history of St. Mary's White Chapel by Elizabeth Comps Pierce. 4 items. Photographs from 1937: \"Bewdley,\" Lancaster Courthouse (Lancaster Post Office and former jail), Overseer's house on the Black Stump Quarter of Robert Carter's Corotoman Plantation (Weems Post Office), Sipes House (Lively Post Office) and Armstrong House (Palmer Post Office).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of court order, 1830, to pay Edward Campbell for his services as Commonwealth's Attorney for Lee County, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped copy of an advertisement in the Daily National Intelligencer, Washington, September 30, 1814, by James Monroe concerning sale of land; letter, 1863, from George K. Fox of Campbell Court House, Virginia, to L.W.S. Hough at Leesburg about Loudoun County bonds; booklet, July 1, 1861, containing names of purchasers of Loudoun County bonds numbered 1-358 and executed copies of July1, 1861 bonds, numbered 361-370 and 387-400 of Loudoun County. 24 pieces. And photograph of site of home of John Champe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTax list (tithes, land and carriages), 1769, for St. Martin's Parish (mutilated); document, 1852, in lawsuit of Spicer and Harris v. J. M. Macon, Jr., agent; papers in suits against J. and W.W. Beadles in 1852 and court orders, 1853-1854, to pay Robert T. Gooch for services as witness. 7 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelated material: Mss. MsV Lev10 Lunenburg County, Va. Docket, 1843E, Mss. MsV T3 Lunenburg County, Va. Sheriff's Tax Book, 1843\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of the will, 1817, of John T. Ravenscroft and accompanying papers and typescript of a letter, 1781, of D. C. Stokes, College Camp, William and Mary, to [Thomas] Nelson regarding Stokes' discharge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCumberland Parish Records Alphabetical order by subject. Church Matters J. H. Morrison to Dr. Perry regarding the Vestry and a Chimney. 1862. Correspondence B.M. Atkinson to his father about his Christmas plans. 1860. Thomas E. Locke to William J. Neblett enclosing papers on Buford's will, M. Forland's deed and other papers. Mentions R.B. Atkinson.1855. Financial – Correspondence, 1852-1868 Financial receipts, invoices, letters about the rector's salary. 38 items. 1852-1874. Financial – Taxes Receipt for taxes paid to the Sheriff of Lunenburg. Most are property taxes on 197 acres of land. 17 items. 1856 to 1869. 17 items. 1856-1865. Financial – Treasurer's Reports. 1847-1874. 16 items. Financial Matters – Bonds, Bills, Invoices, Subscriptions, Receipts and Taxes. St. John's Church and others. 35 items. 1848-1904. Some names mentioned: William H. Perry, Treasurer of the Parish; L.J. James E. Davis, Roger B. Atkinson, J.H. Morrison, Roger B. Atkinson, J.J. Deshazer, George Southall, Rev. Thomas E. Locke, Rev. Henry Wall, Rev. J. L. Sothoron, W.S. Watkins, Anderson Stewart, Harrison J. Elden, W.W. Webber, John. S. Hansbrough, Neblett Family, Colonel Sheets, Charles Smith, Mrs. John T. Merryman, Alice Ingram,W.G. Marshall, treasurer of Parish by 1904 and others. Letter from Dr. Bird, Dinwiddie County, about preaching at St. John's Church at the invitation of Mr. Neblett. 1863. Legal Matters Correspondence between Dr. W.H. Perry and A. M. and Richard Nelson, Carrolton, Mississippi about the case, Kreatts vs. Creath where Richard Nelson is representing Dr. Perry in the suit to get payment on a note. 1856-1860:1877 Deed between Malcom Macfarland and Vestry of Cumberland Parish for 190 acres. 1840. Rectors Resignation letter of Rector Dr. J. H. Morrison. May 1863. Vestry Meeting notes and letters about job openings, position acceptance and declining and resignations. 1857-1863. Rectors – Thomas E. Locke Payment accounts for 1838-1854, plus resignation and salary dispute, 1855. Vestry Minutes 1842, 1856, 1857, 1862 and undated. Originally accessioned as 1939.224 as a gift from WH Perry, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatent, 1759, granting 400 acres of land to John LeGrand (signed by Francis Fauquier).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of court order, 1830, to pay Horace Stringfellow for his services as Commonwealth's Attorney; and deed of trust, 1932, given by Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover to William E. Carson, covering tracts of land in Madison County, Va. including Hoover's camp on the Rapidan River. Typed draft of an article, \"The Hebron Church Birth Register\" by Arthur L. Keith. 1934.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 3.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVolume 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews clippings about the records of early Mathews County. Ca. 1940. Letter from Ellen R.T. Lane in Woodstock, Virginia to her cousin about her Mother's boarding school. August 15, 1883.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1772-1858, relating to Mecklenburg County, Va. Includes copies of court orders, 1830, to pay William B. Banks as Commonwealth's Attorney; William Townes as jailor, and Richard H. Walker as sheriff; church records (including certificate of baptism and letter of removal); marriage licenses, and notes concerning Revolutionary War soldiers, Native Americans and race horses. 17 items. Flyer from Charles B. Stuart, Randolph Macon College, about arrangements to \"…execute analyses of Soils, Marls, Guano, Minerals, \u0026amp;c., and to impart instruction in Analytical Chemistry.\" Undated. Photocopies of flyers for an auction at Prestwould. May 24-25, 1946.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatent granting 70 acres of land in Mecklenburg County to William Marrable. 1772. On vellum. 15 1/4 x 13 inches. 1 piece. Medium oversize.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes rubbing from binding of a Middlesex County record book; copy of orders, 1676, concerning provisions for soldiers to be sent out against Native Americans; copy of petitions, 1700, presented by the freeholders of Middlesex County to the House of Burgesses (from court record book); and copy of receipt, 1781, for supplies furnished by Philip Ludwell Grymes for public use. 4 items. Copies of blueprints of suggested original arrangement of the interior of the second Christ Church as built in 1714. 2 copies. 1938. Three articles on Middlesex County history by Carroll C. Chowning. 1932, 1934 and 1935. Notecard with a pencil sketch of the Christ Church altar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists, 1832-1833, of land returned as delinquent for taxes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBroadside, 1856, announcing the opening of the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs. Receipt for G.W. Lyle from Henry M. Conrad, Dr. Transfer, Livery, Feed and Sale Stable in Radford, Virginia.,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of lands and lots returned as delinquent, 1831. 4 p. 29 cm. Printed. 1 piece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHistory, 1869-1931, of Liberty Spring Christian Church, Nansemond County, Va.; and copy of patent, 1663, granting 1850 acres of land to Richard Bennett. 2 items. Photograph of a map, \"The Lower Parish of Nansemond County, Virginia.\" Time period covered is late 1600's. Map made by J.H. Granbery in 1946.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelated material: Mss. MsV Lev11-12 Nelson County Va. Sheriff's Receipt Book, 1811-1837 Mss. MsV T4 Nelson County, Va. Tax Book, 1835 There is no material for Nelson County in the Virginia Counties Collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Papers, 1865-1866 and undated, relating to New Kent County, Va. Includes license, 13 November 1866, to Dr. L. C. Crump to practice medicine and two tax receipts for Crump; receipts, 1865, for U. S. taxes to W. A. Patterson and W. W. Taliaferro; and photograph of St. Peter's Episcopal Church and the \"Criss Cross House.\" 9 items. Handwritten copy of letter from William Gooch to the Vestry of New Kent County recommending Mr. Thacker. Circa 1729/30. Family tree of Robert Christian and Mary Brown of Cedar Grove, New Kent County. 2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond, 1862, of Isaac Bales of loyalty to the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of court orders, 1830, to pay William Barnard for his services as jailer and Mordecai Cooke for his services as sheriff and a bond, 1765, of William Harwood and Samuel Langley to Elizabeth Ashley. 3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal papers, receipts, correspondence and financial records generated by Northampton County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a contract to carry mail between Eastville and Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the use of a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoad construction\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDebt suit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGift of Dr. \u0026amp; Mrs. H. Norton Mason, 1965.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy (printed) of the inventory, 1674, of the estate of Ambrose Feilding of Wickocomoco Hall, Northumberland County, Va. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExtracts, 1783-1786, from Ohio County, W. Va. records. 1 piece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1841-1920, relating to Orange County, Va. Includes documents, 1841, concerning lawsuit of Jeremiah Morton v. William C. Willis; and petition, 1920, of citizens of Orange County, Va. concerning the unveiling of a tablet to World War I dead. 4 items. Calling card advertisement for \"Stratford Fund\" tea at St. Thomas House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter, 4 October 1817, from William S. Marye to inhabitants of valley lying between the Blue Ridge and the Massanutten and Fort Mountains concerning the formation of a new county [Page County.] 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger, Page County, Virginia, 1889-1892, 730 pp., recording the sale of general merchandise to more than 100 individual customers and businesses. One of the customers was the Luray Caverns and Hotel Company. Alphabetical index in front of volume. Sampling of names mentioned in the ledger was provided by the seller: Luray Caverns and Hotel Company, George Lee, William Jenkins, Tannery, Captain W. H. Smith, YMCA Masonic Lodge, Reverend N. W. Hackley, Arlington Hotel Company, Joseph Zirkle, John W. Strickler, Reverend H. M. Wharton, William Rosser, George Carter, Washington Carter, Lee Washington, Marshal Baylis, John A. Jackson, Albert Johnson, William Mundy. 1 volume. Purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvertisement for sale of \"Fairystones.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo newspaper articles written by Mary Lee Keister Talbot about early residents of South Fork and South Branch Valleys of the Potomac and a new interpretation of Fort Seybert, 2 April and 7 May 1937. 2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA 1771 deed of trust from Tully Choice to James Smith and Company for a piece of land. A marriage license, November 16, 1859, between Reuben H. Carter and Mary M. Robertson and a marriage license, December 20, 1858, between James A. Witcher and Phebe C. Haley. 2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Inventory and appraisal of the estate of Josiah Marshall including the following: one negroe man, James, oats and corn, farm implements and tools, and blacksmith equipment, signed by Wm Moseley (?), Arthur Moseley (?), and Francis Lewis as appraisers, and signed as ordered and recorded by by Ab[new] Crump. October 20, 1791. 2 pp. A manuscript, \"The Genesis of Powhatan County in Virginia\" by Floyd B. Taylor. 2 items.1936. The materials in this collection were donated by Floyd B. Taylor in 1936 and purchased by W\u0026amp;M Special Collections Research Center in 1981.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of a typed transcription, with index, of vestry minutes of St. Patrick Parish, 1755-1774. Bond given by Joseph Bohan to Philemon Holcombe, March 28, 1788. Printed report \"Second Report of the Prince Edward Landmark Committee,\" 1928. Copy of a print of the Union Theological Seminary. Undated. Notes by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton from the Prince Edward County Courthouse on the prisons in the county. Appeared in the October 1937 William and Mary Quarterly. Notes copied by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton from the Prince Edward County Courthouse about Mr. Burks's buildings as part of a lawsuit between Woodson and Burks in 1767. Typed carbon copy of Declarations of James Pugh, James Moss, James Wooldridge, Peter Grigg and James Taylor about their participation in the Revolutionary War. Other notes concerning Revolutionary War claims. Correspondence between Dr. Earl Gregg Swem and W.S. Morton. 1936. Notes about Prince Edward County by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton. Mentions Richard Darfson, Peter Legrand, Dr. John Fisher, James Thackson, John Meadley, James Roberts, John Moore, Jr., Abraham Venable, Benjamin Augell, John Le Neve, John Bonds, Charles Anderson, Matthias Flournoy, John Pryor Smith, Charles Smith, Zachariah Leigh, Thomas Yuille and Michael McDearman. Dates covered are from mid to late 1700's. Notes taken in 1936.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1866-1868, relating to lawsuits in Prince George County, Va. against Matthew W. Raney for debt. 3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1728-1752, relating to Prince William County, Va. Mostly documents concerning the settlement of estates but also includes copy of [quit] rent roll, 1738; document, 1752, concerning debt; and guardian's bond, 1743, for Thomas Young. Two items in this collection were donated by Mrs. Marion S. Mallory in 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1753-1865, concerning Princess Anne County, Va. Includes writ, 1753, to adjourn the county court of Princess Anne signed by Robert Dinwiddie (gift of Benjamin B. Burroughs) and license, 1865, of Richard H. Baylor, a Baptist minister, to perform marriage ceremonies. 2 items. Photographs of Communion silver of Old Donation Church, communion silver of the Eastern Shore Chapel, the Anthony Fentress house, the Eastern Shore Chapel and the Old Donation Church. 5 photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture between Augustine and Silvester Blidenbrough and Thomas Moss for land in Rappahannock County. January 23, 1661. Incomplete. Includes typescript. Medium Oversize.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNegative photostatic copy of a list, 1724, of African Americans instructed and baptized by John Garzia, minister of the parish of North Farnham. 1 item. Newspaper article on the frozen Rappahannock isolating the Northern Neck in Farnham, Virginia and about an old church in Farnham, Virginia. Newspaper article on the frozen Rappahannock isolating the Northern Neck in Farnham, Virginia and about an old church in Farnham, Virginia. Minutes of September 22, 1774 meeting of the Association of Richmond County \"for the choosing of a committee agreeable to the Seventh Resolve made and entered into by the delegates from the different countys in the Coloney of Dominion of Virginia on Williamsburg the first day of August last.\" (after 1st Virginia Conventon, Revolutionary War) Copy by LeRoy Peachy, Clk. Back of document, \"The meeting of the Association September 22, 1774 for choosing a committee for the County to watch...in defence of American freedom.\" Lists the people chosen for each area of the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelated Material: Mss. MsV V1 Poll book, 1782-1810, for election of delegates to the General Assembly from Rockbridge County, [Va.], Mss. MsV Lev14 Rockbridge County, Va. Justice of the Peace Judgement and Execution Book, 1838-1849, Mss. MsV Lev15 Rockbridge County, Va. Court Receipt Book, 1833-1855\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted list of land and lots returned as delinquent for taxes, dated 1831. Includes lands and lots sold. 10 p. 30 cm. 4 copies. Printed copy of the will of Alexander Telford. 1790. 2 items. Eight licenses, 1800-1805, for 'ordinaries' in Rockbridge County, Va. for Alexander Shield, Christopher Clyee, Nicholas Spring, Win Bailey, Benjamin Darst, Daniel Windell, John Conkey and William Niblack. Deed between Sarah C. Bourland and James Walker, January 2, 1863. Legal documents signed by John Ruff and others in regard to a payment of debts. December 16, 1840 to September 3, 1849. 5 items. Sworn statements certifying commissioners to oversee voting sites in Rockbridge County for presidential election of 1860. 27 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1770-1871, relating to Rockingham County, Va. Includes two deeds, 1828 and 1871; partial inventory and sale of personal property of James Dever; account book, 1860-1867, of John W. Minnich, a teacher; accounts of the board of school commissioners (including student names); and documents, 1770-1843, concerning lawsuits (including criminal cases and criminal cases involving slaves). 521 items. The lawsuit material begins with Box 19, folder 3 and is divided into two alphabetical groups which are organized by the main person in the lawsuit. The second group is in Box 20. These lawsuits contain various spellings of the participants' names, often two or three spellings in the same page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLocal Election Ballot. May 28, 1891. 2 items. Advertisement cards for Strayer and Lupton in Harrisonburg, Virginia, O'Ferrall and Patterson in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and W.J. Downs, \"Hides wanted.\" Undated. 3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of court order, 1830, to pay Edward Campbell for his services as Commonwealth's attorney for Russell County, Va. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of court order, 1830, to pay Jacob Lynch for his service as clerk of the court of Scott County, Va. Advertisement in Morgantown, Virginia for Dr. C.M. Lane's Improved Medical Remedies and Dr. Scott's White Circassian Liniment. 1855.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBroadside order sheet for vegetable seeds by Jonathan Wood of New Lebanon. 1833. Advertisement for a sewing machine by Hottel and Keller in Toms Brook, Virginia. Grocery list on the back. Undated. Advertisement by Strayer and Coffman for their \"Cheap Store\" in New Market, Virginia. March 31, 1810.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments, 1779-1819, concerning land transactions in Southampton County, Va. Purchased from Charles Hamilton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelated material: Mss. Acc. 2008.319 Fredericksburg, Virginia District Court Ledgers, 1787-1840\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments, 1798-1841, concerning Spotsylvania County, Va. Includes tax bill; legal receipt, 1799, for execution in the lawsuit of Charles Thompson v. Joseph Newton \u0026amp; John Day; and extracts, 1798, from the will of James Somerville. Campaign speech, handwritten and transcribed, by unknown. August 1788.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of quit rent roll, 1724, for Stafford County, Va. Photocopy of May 8, 1974 Richmond Times-Dispatch article on old papers returned to Stafford County. Newspaper article on the price of negroes in Stafford County in 1722. 1881. Handwritten document (copy of an original) of \"An Act to Exempt Certain German Protestants in the County of Stafford from the Paiment of Parish Levies.\" 1730. Photographs of the Clerk's Office, Courthouse and the County Jail. Undated. Typed history of the Old Courthouse buildings. Undated. Copy of a map, \"Colonial Tidewater, Virginia. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Papers, 1927-1939, relating to Surry County, Va. Includes list, 1927, of places in Surry County compiled by A. W. Bohannon; and printed tour guide, 1939, to places in Surry County conducted by Thomas Rolfe Branch, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Card advertising Wigwam Brand Virginia Hams. Undated. Transcribed records which relate to the expulsion of mercenary attorneys. Undated. March 1929 edition of \"Representative\" a newspaper of the Surry County Schools. Patent for Humphrey Baylis for 440 acres in Surry County adjacent to \"College Lines.\" Signed by William Gooch. December 1, 1740. Patent is a gift of Ethel D. Roberts, 1936.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1776 and 1932, relating to Sussex County, Va. Includes copy of will, 177[8?], [mutilated] of John Clanton; and newspaper clipping, 1932, concerning court held in Sussex County, 18 July 1776, and considered the first court held under authority of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollection relating to Warwick County, much of it concerning the Colonial era. Contains legal disputes, estate papers, court findings, petitions, correspondence, etc. Also contains correspondence relative to the Civil War and papers concerning the American Revolution and slavery. This collection has been microfilmed and is restricted to MICROFILM USE ONLY. NOTE: transcriptions of the colonial portion of the records are available in Richard Dunn: Warwick County, Virginia, colonial court records in transcription (F232 .W27 W3 2000 (Swem stacks and Swem Rare Books) and F232 .W27 W3 2008 (Swem Rare Books).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated items and photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 7 May 1659.  Will of Henry Jacksonn [sic] of Mulberry Island; divides his estate amongst son Henry, daughters Sarah and Dorothy, his wife's sons John and Emanuell [sic] Wills, also Emanuell's [sic] wife Elizabeth, his grandchildren Mary and Ann, and his wife Elizabeth Jackson; appoints Robert Pyland and Miles Cary overseers of his estate; witnessed by Robert Pyland, William Gwinett, and William Thomas.  1 p. 11 [Decem]b[e]r 1679.  Orders passed by the court of Warwick County; require a penalty of 400 pounds of tobacco to be assessed on the Owners of \"stone\" horses under fourteen hands allowed to run free in order to prevent the spoiling of the \"Breed of the Countrey\"; whereas \"we find...[the] Continuall destroying [of] our Stocks by Wolves\" a reward of 200 pounds of tobacco is offered for presenting a wolf's head before the magistrate; whereas \"we find...that there are diverse and ill minded people that carry gunns [sic] shooting and ranging upon any man's Land\" it is ordered that anyone carrying a gun on another man's property without the owner's permission shall pay a penalty of 200 pounds of tobacco and forfeit their gun; recorded by William Bolton.  1 p. These documents have not been microfilmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeposition, 1794, taken in Washington County, Va., in the suit of Alexander Quarrier v. Robert Watkins in the Superior Court of Richmond County, Ga. and court order, 1830, to pay Edward Campbell for his services as Commonwealth's attorney for Washington County. Barter Theatre pamplet. 1949. Barter Theatre program for \"Margin for Error.\" 1940-41. Advertisement mailing for flour by Anderson and Shaffer of Hamilton, Ohio to J.B. Mongle and Son of Holston, Virginia. 1891.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotostat copy of the Memorial of the committee of the County of West Augusta to the convention of the Colony of Virginia. [1774] and transcript. 1 piece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Papers, 1830-1878 and undated, relating to Westmoreland County, Va. Includes court orders, 1830, to pay clerk, jailor and sheriff; document, 1845, in lawsuit of William Teffey et al. v. Elizabeth M. Sutton; newspaper clippings; and a printed circular. Newspaper article on Yeocomico Church. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted list, 1831, of lands returned as delinquent for taxes in Wythe County, Va. Accessor's listing of property of Samuel Williams. Includes list of slaves and their ages, acreage, and dwelling house and outbuildings. April 1, 1815. (Mss. Acc. 2001.44)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelated publications:Charles Parish Register available published as Landon C. Bell, Charles Parish, York County, Va. Richmond: Virginia State Library Board, 1932.  There are slight discrepancies in words between the printed versions of the Charles Parish register and the manuscript copy at Swem Library and Bell re-arranged the entries. The original Charles Parish register is at the Virginia State Library. See ledgers, journals and family papers from York County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlat of A.W. Hitchen's Farm, portion south of U.S. Parkway in Bruton District. Surveyed April 1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Extracts, 1782-1788, from county records; copy of account, 1668, for funeral expenses of Thomas Foote; photocopy of will, 1775, of William Nelson; copy of newspaper advertisement, 1812, for sale of Bell-Field; and print, 1862, from a printed book of Wynn's Mill. December 10, 1942 letter to the Citizens of the Magruder Area from Carl W. Porter, Commander, of the Public Works Department, Naval Operating Base about building a camp for the Seabees and citizens needing to vacate their homes. York County Court House Agreement and Origin. Undated, but after 1941. Indenture between Henry Graves and William Allen for York County land. Original. July 13, 1790. (Gift of John Jennings who noted a relationship between \"Six Mile Ordinary,\" \"Allen's Ordinary\" and Lightfoot, Virginia. Typed transcript of letter from Samuel Terrell from a camp near Yorktown to Major Garrett Minor in Louisa County. September 30, 1781.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotebook containing a manuscript copy of the Charles and New Pocosin [sic] Parish Register. Volume 1, part 1. Births and Baptisms. 1648-1800. Index.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotebook containing a manuscript copy of the Charles and New Pocosin [sic] Parish Register. Volume 1, part 2. Births and Baptisms. 1648-1800. Index.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotebook containing a manuscript copy of the Charles and New Pocosin [sic] Parish Register. Volume 2. Deaths. 1665-1787. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Papers, 1837-1938, of Lee Nicholson, a genealogist of Sussex County, Va. Includes correspondence, notes and charts concerning many Virginia families. Among them are the Batte family, Bolling family, Branch family, Briggs family, Chappell family, Heath family, Jones family, Land family, Mallory family, Mason family, Morton family, Neblett family, Nicholson family, Peebles family, Pegram family and Rives family.","Small black notebook \"The Jones and Batte Families of Virginia\" in long hand. Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Sussex County, Virginia. Pages 11-49 Jones family, 1-5 Batte family. No page numbers, \"Genealogical data from Col. C. Jones' Book\", The Edwards family, the Lang family, the C. Jones family, the Eppes family, the Brodnax family, the Halcot Pride family.","With \"Supplementary Details\" and chart; also \"The Batte Family\" (typescript).","Rough hand notes on Jones family, Cargill, Higginson, Eppes, Williamson, Turpin, Belscher, Harrison, Jarratt, Peebles, Batte, Mason, Parham, Nicholson, Young, Blow, Goode, and Parker.","Oversize typed record. Also longhand notes by Nicholson.","Taken from records at Invermay \u0026 Greenyard, Scotland, now in possission of Lord Clinton copied by Mr. Edward Tuckerman while a guest of Lord Clinton. Mr. Tuckerman's wife was the daughter of Martha Cargill whose mother was Margaret Belsches. Mr. Tuckerman was a professor at Amherst College. 5 pp. of longhand of Mr. Nicholson's.","Content regarding ancestry and descent of Col. George Reade.","Notes from descent, wills, etc.","Descent of Thomas Jefferson, President, from Mary Branch and Tomas Jefferson: 1)Thomas Jefferson mar. Mary Branch, 2)Thomas Jefferson mar. Mary Field, 3)Peter Jefferson Mar. Jane Randolph, 4) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) President. See: Bell, Vol. II, 289-292.","Prob. 1789 April 5. Wife: Mary. Ch: Freeman (left \"Causon\" Pr. George Co., Va); pt. from Peter Batte, other lands, Blandford lots- Francis (left Amelia Co. land), Thomas (left Amelia Co. land), John (left Amelia Co. land and Lunenburg Co. land), Sara [m. Wm. 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Harrison one of executors.","Died interstate 1792 leaving 9 children: Littleberry, Thomas, Nath'l, Elizabeth, Mary, Rebecca, Littleton, William and Henry.","Daughter Elizabeth Nicholson, wife of Robert Nicholson who was exec. of Harry Flood. The Nicholsons had 6 children (1739)- Henry, Robert, Mary, George, James, and Anne.","3 pp. Also, marriage bond of Col. David Mason and Lucy Davis, Sussex Co., Va.","Henry Mason of \"Laurel Spring\", Capt. John Raines Mason, Dr. John Raines Mason, graduate of Edinburg University, married Lucy Davis","Thomas J Drumwright m. Nancy W. Blow February 11 1836. Alex Blow m. Elizabeth M. Jarrad April 20 1809 (Alex Blow, son of Henry Blow and Rebecca born 1788). Elizabeth M. Jarrad, daughter of Henry Jarrad and Margaret B., b. June 28, 1784. Nancy W. Blow, daughter of above born 1812, February 20. 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Also Ellis, Jarratt families.","Regarding finding a part of sword \"The gift of Virginia to General Scott.\"","Regarding his grandfather, Captain James Mason's Bounty Lands grant; also for great uncle David Mason.","Author unknown.","Sarah J.R. Blow, a niece [married John R. Chambliss], sister: Winifred G. Blow","Regarding Rives, Blow, Chambliss families.","Regarding parents and grandparents of General W. 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Includes correspondence, notes and charts concerning many Virginia families. Among them are the Batte family, Bolling family, Branch family, Briggs family, Chappell family, Heath family, Jones family, Land family, Mallory family, Mason family, Morton family, Neblett family, Nicholson family, Peebles family, Pegram family and Rives family.","Small black notebook \"The Jones and Batte Families of Virginia\" in long hand. Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Sussex County, Virginia. Pages 11-49 Jones family, 1-5 Batte family. No page numbers, \"Genealogical data from Col. C. Jones' Book\", The Edwards family, the Lang family, the C. Jones family, the Eppes family, the Brodnax family, the Halcot Pride family.","With \"Supplementary Details\" and chart; also \"The Batte Family\" (typescript).","Rough hand notes on Jones family, Cargill, Higginson, Eppes, Williamson, Turpin, Belscher, Harrison, Jarratt, Peebles, Batte, Mason, Parham, Nicholson, Young, Blow, Goode, and Parker.","Oversize typed record. Also longhand notes by Nicholson.","Taken from records at Invermay \u0026 Greenyard, Scotland, now in possission of Lord Clinton copied by Mr. Edward Tuckerman while a guest of Lord Clinton. Mr. Tuckerman's wife was the daughter of Martha Cargill whose mother was Margaret Belsches. Mr. Tuckerman was a professor at Amherst College. 5 pp. of longhand of Mr. Nicholson's.","Content regarding ancestry and descent of Col. George Reade.","Notes from descent, wills, etc.","Descent of Thomas Jefferson, President, from Mary Branch and Tomas Jefferson: 1)Thomas Jefferson mar. Mary Branch, 2)Thomas Jefferson mar. Mary Field, 3)Peter Jefferson Mar. Jane Randolph, 4) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) President. See: Bell, Vol. II, 289-292.","Prob. 1789 April 5. Wife: Mary. Ch: Freeman (left \"Causon\" Pr. George Co., Va); pt. from Peter Batte, other lands, Blandford lots- Francis (left Amelia Co. land), Thomas (left Amelia Co. land), John (left Amelia Co. land and Lunenburg Co. land), Sara [m. Wm. 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Harrison one of executors.","Died interstate 1792 leaving 9 children: Littleberry, Thomas, Nath'l, Elizabeth, Mary, Rebecca, Littleton, William and Henry.","Daughter Elizabeth Nicholson, wife of Robert Nicholson who was exec. of Harry Flood. The Nicholsons had 6 children (1739)- Henry, Robert, Mary, George, James, and Anne.","3 pp. Also, marriage bond of Col. David Mason and Lucy Davis, Sussex Co., Va.","Henry Mason of \"Laurel Spring\", Capt. John Raines Mason, Dr. John Raines Mason, graduate of Edinburg University, married Lucy Davis","Thomas J Drumwright m. Nancy W. Blow February 11 1836. Alex Blow m. Elizabeth M. Jarrad April 20 1809 (Alex Blow, son of Henry Blow and Rebecca born 1788). Elizabeth M. Jarrad, daughter of Henry Jarrad and Margaret B., b. June 28, 1784. Nancy W. Blow, daughter of above born 1812, February 20. 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Some documents treating slavery and the Underground Railroad include Ohio from which Cabell County blacks, including Bickley's ancestors, migrated.","Colleagues with whom she corresponded include Judith Stitzel, Nelson Barnett, Maureen Crockett (with whom she co-wrote at least one play), and many more. Of significance is correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey; and letters and a signed photo from Alex Haley.  ","Writings, research background, and drafts of Dr. Bickley's works found within the collection include:  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman , \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" (1990),  Honoring our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History ,  History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association  (1979),  In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955 ,  Our Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia , a short story collection \"Turn Left at the Desert,\"  ... to be black in Fayette , and plays:  Two Saint Say ,  Mother Love ,  Tangled Threads  (with Maureen Crockett),  Wade in the Water , and seven  Goldenseal  articles. \nGrant applications and other documents pertaining to her work with the Humanities Council of West Virginia are included in the collection. Other documents describe her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, EcoTheater, Berea College's Black Mountain Youth Leadership program, and various professional organizations.   \nPersonal papers include material about her husband Nelson R. Bickley and his military career, diplomas, transcripts, photographs of a party she held, and more. ","Addendum of 2017/02/09 (boxes 11 and 12) includes papers of Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, with a few papers of her daughter Ancella Livers. Formats include interview transcripts, correspondence, clippings, typescript writings, publications, cassettes, and more. Most of these materials are transcripts of oral histories pertaining to a collaborative project undertaken by Dr. Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson about black teachers and their memories of school integration in West Virginia in affiliation with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University.","Abbreviations used in the Contents List: \nAB - Ancella Bickley \nWVSC - West Virginia State College \nNB - Nelson Bickley \nMTG - Memphis Tennessee Garrison \nJMJ - J. McHenry Jones \nNEA - National Education Association \nNCTE - National Council of Teachers of English \nMo So Lit Club - Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club, McDowell County, WV \nUGRR - Underground Railroad \nMU - Marshall University \nWVU - West Virginia University \nCGW - Carter G. Woodson \nRW-N  - Rita Wicks-Nelson","Includes civic and academic awards and honors, as well as academic milestones such as graduation and Bickley's dissertation. This series includes materials on the celebration of Bickley's retirement from West Virginia State College.","Correspondence from Marshall University regarding AB's commencement address and honorary doctorate; notes of congratulations. Guest list. Photographs of AB delivering address and with others including Soupy Sales. Letter to editor regarding racism of highlighting photograph of Soupy Sales wiping a tear during AB's speech; newspaper clippings. Commencement program. AB's speech.","Honorary Doctorate","Army Commendation Medal (Second Oak Leaf Cluster). AB's Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, Hampton Institute, initiation certificate, May 1976","Attendance, reading, scholarships, and other certificates from elementary through college","AB transcript, 1951, from MU. Transcript, WVSC.","Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards, 1980, when AB won The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Correspondence regarding the award including 2 letters from John W. Davis.","Photograph of WVSC President Thomas Cole and Ancella Bickley at her retirement; labeled \"West Virginia State College, Commencement, May 17, 1986.\"","Master of Arts degree confirmation from Marshall University","Doctor of Education degree confirmation from West Virginia University","Certificate of Appreciation from the Kiwanis Club of Huntington","Note from WVU professor Armand [Singer] regarding missing retirement celebration","Newspaper clipping re: CGW. Photographs of AB and others after a speaking engagement in Fayette County. Service Award certificate from WVSC.","Letter from Maureen Crocket to the Director of the Appalachian Festival re: Tangled Threads. Letter of recommendation from AB for Dr. Elaine Ginsberg. \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley\" by Judith Stitzel. Letter of recommendation for Dr. Bernard L. Allen for the WVU Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award. Congratulatory letter for appointment [at WVSC]. Request for letter of recommendation from Marc E. Washington at MU; confirmation of receipt of letter. Request for recommendation for Elaine Ginsberg, Trinity University; verification of receipt of letter. Letter of congratulations on retirement from George Parkinson; letter of regrets from Lawrence H. Talley, West Liberty.","Materials re: WV NAACP Harpers Ferry NHP, 1994, including photographs and text of speech. Congratulatory letter for receiving the Distinguished West Virginian Award, 1986. Thank you for copy of Honoring Our Past, 1992. Many other letters and notes re: service and speeches. Request to speak at the New Employment for Women Information \u0026 Referral Center in Logan about black history. Letter from Gaston Caperton, Governor, re: appointment to the Archives and History Commission, 1991. Thank you letter for contribution to Chandler Third Base, 1992. Certificate of recognition for Outstanding Service in Support of 1993 Douglass High School Reunion. Thank you for participating in the United Way Youth Advisory Council's Youth Forum, 1993. Thank you letter re: speech at naturalized citizens ceremony from John T. Copenhaver, 1992. Certificate of appreciation and other materials including a photo re: \"Read to Me\" Day, 1999. Newspaper article re: writing about the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind and cards of congratulations. Kanawha County Schools Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, 1991.","Letter of acknowledgement to deliver commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate at MU, 1990. Newspaper clipping and tribute to Minnie Wayne Cooper, 1989. Thank you letter to Matthew Kinsolving, Kanawha County Board of Education, for plaque, 1989. Typed text of \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley.\" Newspaper clipping and congratulatory letter re: WVSC Alumna of the Year, 1988. Letter withdrawing candidacy for the Kanawha County Board of Education, 1988. Thank you letter for receiving the Humanities Foundation Award, 1988; letter of congratulations from A. James Manchin; and Dee Caperton, House of Representatives. Letter of congratulations from Herman G. Canady, Jr., for appointment to Board of Education, 1988. Program for NAACP, Charleston Branch, Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, 1988, with AB as guest speaker. The Trumpet, West Liberty State College student newspaper, with article about AB's lecture on teaching black literature, November 28, 1973. Program, newspaper clipping, flyer, and certificate of recognition for the National Council of Jewish Women, West Virginia Section, Founder's Day, 1991. Correspondence re: speaking invitations, 1991-2001. Letters of thank you for service: The Huntington Club of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., 2001; Charleston Mayor, G. Kemp Melton, for Charleston Urban Renewal Authority, 1999; Conference program for \"New Approaches to the Humanities and Lifelong Learning,\" 1988, where AB received award. Newspaper clippings for awards and accomplishments. 1987-1988. Newspaper clipping \"Educator Grim on Blacks' Future\" 1985. Thank you letter from Dee Caperton, House of Delegates, for draft of book about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1987. Congratulatory notes, 1988-2002. Resume, ca. 1988. Text of speech for [receiving WVSC Alumna of the Year award, 1988]","Newspaper clippings, 1994-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, 1984-1995. Program for Staff Recall, Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, WV, with AB as guest speaker. Program for Induction Ceremony [sic], Phi Sigma Alpha, WVSC, 1995, when AB gave speech on the UGRR. Program for Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Third Annual Memorial Fundraiser Banquet, 1995, AB speaker. Program for MLK birthday event at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine where AB spoke, 1994. Resume. Photo of the Berlin Wall, May 1963.","Newspaper clippings, 1984-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters and certificates, 1975-2002. Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner, 1980, when AB received The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Program for Academy Cultural Awareness Committee Black History Month Program, 2002, where AB presented about MTG. Invitation to reception for Oliver W. Hill Freedom Fighter Award of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, 1999, and invitation to recognition event at the U.S. Capitol. Program for St. Anthony Church and School Community Education Awards where AB received the Gregory Loebach Award, 2002. Text of speech and program for West Virginia's African-American Women of Distinction book introduction by the West Virginia Women's Commission, 2002. Program for The Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, AB recipient, 2002; text of speech; newspaper clipping; correspondence.","Newspaper clippings, ca. 1972-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, certificates and other recognitions, 1975 -2002. Letter of receipt for items given to the West Virginia State College/West Virginia Black Heritage Collection, 1987. Personal note, 3/26/80, discussing various contributions to education. Photograph of AB. Program for The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs banquet and candlelight rededication services, 1988, where AB was the guest speaker. Program for Berkeley County Diversity Committee \"Town Meeting\" with AB conducting interactive workshops at schools, 2002. Program and sketch of AB for [her retirement] 1986. Program for PCC lecture series \"The West Virginia Experience,\" [ca. 1985]. State of WV Teaching Certificate, 1960-1965. Letter of acceptance by NB for offer of teaching positions at WVSC for both NB and AB, 1972. Letter offering employment at WVSC as Associate Professor of English, 1972. Letter to NB offering WVSC position of Director of Guidance and Placement, 1972. Letters of thanks for AB for retirement and awards, 1986. Notification of nomination for President of WVSC, 1987. Correspondence Re: NCTE Orwell conference, 1984. Notification that tapes of censorship series of programs will be housed at the New York Public Library, 1984. Program for the Danforth Associate Program, 1975, for which AB and NB were program chairs. Program for The Women's Study Club Annual Open House, 1984, when AB was named Woman of the Year. Program for \"African Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields\" at the National Mine Health \u0026 Safety Academy when AB gave a lecture, 2000.","Newspaper clippings, 1989-2000. Congratulatory and thank you letters, invitations to speak, certificates of recognition, 1985-2000. Photograph of Douglass High School Y Teens, ca. 1946, including AB. Newspaper articles re: AB as WVSC's May Queen, 1948. Issue of MU's Greenline: a Publication for Alumni and Friends of Marshall University, May-July 1990, in which AB is recognized as commencement speaker; press release; letters of congratulations. Photograph of AB and others after presentation in Morgantown, 1990. Program for WVSC National Alumni Association William L. Lonesome Alumni Awards Dinner-Dance Honoring Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, Class of 1950, 1988 Alumnus of the Year. Dunbar Rotary Club Newsletter with AB as speaker, 1988. Materials from the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History, 1989. Letter to the editor of the Charleston Gazette re: black athlete, 1988.","Retirement from WVSC, 1986, materials. Correspondence re: ceremony; letters of congratulations; newspaper clippings; photographs; program; WVSC commencement program with AB as retirement honoree.","AB's doctoral dissertation A Study of the Effects of Teaching a Unit on Black Culture to Classes of Predominantly White High School Students, 1974.","Newspaper clippings for Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, 2002. Materials pertaining to \"From Our Front Porch: Stories about Charleston's Oldest Neighborhood, The East End\": newspaper insert; outline for Appalachian Studies Association presentation; program for play at Roosevelt Wilson High School; the play. \"Testimony of Ancella Radford Bickley, Independent Scholar from West Virginia, on behalf of The State Humanities Program Regarding FY 1989 Appropriations to the National Endowment for the Humanities before the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior of the Senate,\" 1988. Congratulatory letters re: selection to the Kanawha Board of Education. Newspaper clippings. Congratulations re: speech's and performance of play in Florida. Commencement program for WVSC, 1950. Text of AB honors. Newspaper clippings re: her writings. Letter of acknowledgement for participation in reading of the names of lynchings victims program, Virginia State University, 2001. News release re: production of Harvest of Dreams by the Charleston Stage Company, 2000. Correspondence re: appointment to the WVU Board of Advisors, 1989. Certificate of appreciation from the City of Beckley for contributions to black history in WV. Thank you note re: women writers, 1994. Thank you letter from James Tolbert re: participation in Black History Month program at Harper's Ferry. Overview of AB accomplishments [introduction?]. Letter acknowledging participation in Kanawha County Public Library Black History Month events, 1993; abstract of talk; resume. Thank you letter for presentation at a Affirmative Action Committee Meeting, 1994; program; brochure listing black employees. Letter acknowledging intent to speak at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine re: unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and for MLK Day, 1993. Handwritten note of appreciation for a speech. Handwritten note re: missing speech for Black History Month, with attached newspaper clipping, 1994. 1949 Yellow Jacket article with picture of AB as newspaper staff. Clipping re: AB as keynote speaker for MLK Day celebration, 1991. Letter acknowledging a reading at the College Language Association, 1993. Letter acknowledging agreement to moderate a panel on sexual harassment; flyer for the program. Congratulatory letter for receiving the MU Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus, 1993. Program for \"First Annual Forum and Family Recognition Conference\" from the West Virginia Black Family Coalition, 1992, for which Bickley was a moderator. Correspondence and program for Distinguished Graduate Student Award from MU, 1993. Newspaper clipping about the WVSC presidential inaugural ball including description of AB and NB attire, 1974. Letter from Mary Pearl Compton, WV Delegate, re: Union's Historic District. Handwritten card praising AB as a \"liquid god\" able to move among roles, 1995. Resumes.","Senate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002. Certificate of recognition as a West Virginia Hero, 2002. Newspaper clippings, 1990-2002. Correspondence re: lecture at Alderson Broaddus College, 1991. Certificate of recognition from the WV National Organization of Women and two 1991 conference programs. Program for \"African-Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields,\" 2000. Letter acknowledging selection at WVSC Alumnus of the Year, 1988. The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia Award Dinner Program, 1988. Issue of People \u0026 Mountains: a Publication of the West Virginia Humanities Council, Summer 2001, with MTG interview excerpt edited by AB and Lynda Ann Ewen. Congratulatory note re: publication of Memphis Tennessee Garrison; lecture on MTG announcement, 2000. Letter from the Indiana Humanities Council re: placement on \"Always a River\" registry, 1991. Letter from Gov. Gaston Caperton recognizing appointment to the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission, 1989. Acknowledgement letters as a speaker, 1990-1999. Acknowledgement of receipt of Our Mount Vernons from a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1997. \"Book Notes\" section of West Virginia History re: Our Mount Vernons, 1997. Letter of re: reappointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, 1997. Letter re: WV Public Radio's Cultural Diversity Radio Project, 1998. Letter re: Mistress of Ceremony for a poetry contest at WVSC, 1995. Letter acknowledging support of the WV Humanities Council programming, 1995.","Special Commendation from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, for Significant Contributions to the Underground Railroad Study, 1995.","\"West Virginia: a Film History\" recognition as the Historical Advisor for the film project.","State of West Virginia Distinguished West Virginian award, 1986.","Senate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002.","Includes newspaper clippings and writings by Ancella Bickley Livers (also called Cill Jr. or Cill). Also includes material by or about Nelson Bickley, Ancella Bickley's husband and prominent Charleston, West Virginia, lawyer. Formats include articles, awards and honors, military records, speeches, research notes, publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and more. Subjects include Nelson Bickley's military and teaching careers, his uncle Carter G. Woodson, and more.","Correspondence with James Harlow, WVU President, regarding tenure at WVU, 1969 and 1972. Army records for Nelson Bickley. Various Army regulations, blank forms, and information flyers. Correspondence and forms from the Veterans Administration. Medical records, 1956-1966","Charleston Gazette/Gazette-Mail newspaper clippings about AB and NB, 1999-2003","Text of NB's speech \"CMA's Link to the Late Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Negro History'\" at the Chicago Military Academy, program, and certificate of appreciation.","Text of speech given by NB at East Bank High School to Junior ROTC, regarding the benefits of military service.","Military and scholarship commendations, program from WVSC Commencement, 1948.","Military records for Nelson Bickley including his assignment as an Army ROTC instructor at WVU and difficulty of finding Negro housing. Admission to WVU College of Human Resources and Education.","Folder within 16a containing Army medical records for Nelson Bickley, 1957-1966.","Akron Beacon Journal,  December 7, 1982, with article by Ancella Livers which includes brief biography.","\" Brown V. Board of Education  in West Virginia\" by Nelson R. Bickley in the  West Virginia Law Review , Spring 2005.","Text of speech given by NB at the WVU Law School","Correspondence with Congressman Harley Staggers, James G. Harlow, President of WVU, and others regarding Nelson Bickley's retirement. Other military records.","Invitations to the ROTC Cadet Corps Annual Military Ball and the ROTC Awards Day and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1982. Program for the ROTC Awards Day Ceremony, May 1, 1981. WVSC student newspaper  The Yellow Jacket  with an article about the inductees to the ROTC Hall of Fame including NB. Typed text of NB's acceptance speech about his time in the military. Newspaper with an interview with NB and Belva Clark about Carter G. Woodson, 1987. Program and text of NB speech, with AB edits, at WVSC for Veterans Day, 1992. Newspaper article regarding NB induction into the WVSC ROTC Hall of Fame.","Signed letter from Alex Haley to Colonel and Mrs. Nelson Bickley, March 1, 1973, re: the Bickleys' hospitality after a lecture.","Clippings regarding the Bickleys from  The Villages Daily Sun  (FL) and  The Sunday News-Registe r (Wheeling, WV)","Pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU,\" 1969/70, 1971/72, which include pictures of AB. Program for Lincoln-Douglas Banquet sponsored by Morning Star Baptist Church, February 12, 1977; includes AB as the speaker. Newspaper articles by and about Ancella Bickley, as well as Nelson. Congratulatory letter regarding AB promotion to Vice President for Administration at WVSC, July 9, 1975. Dunbar High School's publication, Kennel, Feb. 23, 1973 and May, 1974.","Letter regarding AB in WVU classroom. Newspaper article about Ancella, daughter of Ancella and Nelson. Dunbar High School's student newspaper, Kennel, Nov. 1972.","Bachelor of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia State College","Nelson Bickley's Master of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia University","Nellie Francisco's Bachelor of Arts in Education degree confirmation from West Virginia State College, 1938","Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, re: funding Joan's education. Text of the poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Invitation to the dedication of the Carter G. Wooson School, New Orleans.","Research materials re: Belva Clark, Carter G. Woodson's niece and Nelson Bickley's mother; note of condolence; funeral program; handwritten [by Mrs. Clark?] obituary and instructions","Articles about NB. Membership certificate to Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.","Teaching certificate for Nellie Radford Francisco, Bluefield Colored Institute, 1928.","Special Order lists. Legal case notes? Selective Service Act of 1948 memo.","Includes genealogical research material, notes, and charts in print as well as handwritten for these families, mostly from the Huntington, West Virginia area and across the Ohio River: Twyman, Spurlock, Barnett, Payne, Jones, Woodson, Wilson, Johnson, Summers, Smoot, Peters, Radford, Layne/Lane, Jones, Straham, Cabell, and Parker. Additional genealogical information is included in oral history interviews with individuals (see Interviews and Oral History Interviews series); the Others' Works series; the Biography subseries of Research Notes and Collected Materials; and other locations throughout the collections.","Documents pertaining to the Twyman Family. Facsimile of pages from  The Promised Land  by J. Earl Pratt [1964]. Facsimile of newspaper legal notices from T he Ironton Register , Oct. 27 and Dec. 15, 1870.","Letter from Willard H. Radford and Kim Radford regarding a reunion for the Radford-Bickley families.","Correspondence between the Bickleys and Nelson L. Barnett, Jr. regarding Allensworth (CA) State Historical Park, the Spurlock family, the Barnett-Payne-Jones family. Rededication pamphlet, October 10, 1992","Barnett family genealogy compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr.","Various documents pertaining to Carter G. Woodson and the Barnett family connection. \"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth. Barnett family documents.","Family line charts, photographs, newspapers, family history for the Nelson Barnett line. Program for the First Baptist Church, Huntington, September 25, 1988. Photographs buildings designed by Carl Barnett, architect.","Transcription of Barnett family obituaries.","James and Mary Wilson family genealogy. Facsimiles of portraits. Memorial service programs. Photographs of Mary Wilson Johnson and James Johnson. Photo of family group identified later in file and on facsimile. Obituary for William O. Johnson. Family group photo. Photos of Ida and William Johnson.","Handwritten Cabell Family tree and notes on the Cabell Family in Institute. Transcription of letter from J. S. Cunningham to Governor A.I. Boreman. Facsimile of newspaper ad for sale of slave.","Handwritten notes regarding Summers Family and slaves.","Facsimile of book section and term paper about the Smoot Family written by Marcella L. Pauley Short for WVSC class.","Booklet of genealogy forms.  African-American Genealogy: A Research Guide  compiled by Phyllis Preston Jarrett and Helen Chambers Winston.","Typewritten history of the Smoot Family, Boone County.","Personnel record for Willard Radford. Letter, 1949, certifying marriage of Willard Radford to Lilian Angus in Cuba, 1923.","Handwritten marriage records for Radfords.","Handwritten notes from a phone conversation regarding the Straham-Parker families.","Typed \"Conversation with Nellie Redford Francisco--about 1985.\" Handwritten \"Discussion w/Henry Radford, 1/14/93.\" Radford Family genealogy. Peters Family genealogy. Newspaper articles regarding Negro education in Huntington and Kimball, 1904-1923. Cemetery lot receipts to Willard Radford. Program for Sterberger Elementary School 1999 Graduation Ceremony; Akil Livers listed as student. Funeral service program for Lily Van Sykes Kelly, 1994. Transcribed obituaries for Joseph T. Payne, 1948, and Minnie Bell Powell, 1936.","Research notes on how to do black genealogy.  Black Studies: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications .","The Layne Family Tree and Its Branches . Handwritten tree with Twyman connection.","\"Plat Map, Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, Proctorville, Ohio\" with notes. Request for donation to the Cemetery, 2013.","Handwritten CGW family tree.","Radford family genealogy. Release of note on deed, Radford family, 1952.","This series includes two subseries, General and Black Teachers.","Includes more formal oral history interviews as well as \"discussions\" and other less structured interviews not intended for any historical publication. Formats include handwritten notes, typed notes, and transcripts of interviews as well as background in the form of correspondence and typed and handwritten corrections.","Transcript of interview with Johnnie James. Newspaper article \"THE Man…Johnny James Now Shares Life With God\"","Background research re: changes to social history and oral history.","Notes from discussion with Grover DuBose, Korean War veteran, Sept. 10, 2000.","Transcripts of interviews with black citizens of Huntington, WV; Institute, WV; Guyandotte, WV; and Black Fork, OH. Including Johnnie James, Ms. Bessie Herbert McClain, Chester A. Burris, Henry Pierce, Mildred Loar Williams, Cash Keels, James Thompson, Mrs. Araminta Miller Justice, and James Johnson.","Spiral bound notebook containing notes from oral history interviews with black soldiers, 1945-46. References to color-coded folders. Notes on soldiers' letters, 1943-45. List of themes in interviews. Follow up on specific soldiers, 2005, titled \"Negative behavior of Blk soldiers.\" Diagram of Army organization.","Research notes labeled \"Army Wives Material: Discussion with Carl \u0026 Nancy Johnson Re: Military Experiences; Carl was a Tuskegee Airman. His wife, Nancy, is white\" 2014. Annotated paper \"The WV State Capitol\" with research notes. Emails re: Kimball Wall Memorial Project, 2011. Research notes. Letter to Beverly from AB re: various researchers in the Villages, FL, 2014. Typed notes from interview with Harriet Williams, Lewisburg, WV.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mildred Lore Williams, 1990, re: family history and Cabell County History. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Bessie Herbert McClain, 1990, re: living in Huntington. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzette Spencer, 1990, re: family and life in Huntington. Mrs. Spencer was a descendant of 37 slaves freed in the south and sent to Ohio. Transcript of oral history interview with Mr. Cash Keels, 1990, re: family history and life in Black Fork, Ohio.","Audiocassettes labeled: \"Joseph C. Peters re: Black High School Athletics - 11/2/95;\" \"Gregory Peters / Reminiscences, 9/22/95, \u0026 Ed Scott #3;\" \"MC (Ref) Edward Greer, 5/10/06;\" and \"Ed Scott / Reminiscences /Korea, 10/20/95\"","Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson, as Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence at Marshall University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, interviewed and recorded interviews with older black women teachers from across the state. This subseries contains transcripts of the interviews, corrected transcripts, correspondence with the subjects, and sometimes background information about them.","Typed manuscript for \"Black Education in West Virginia,\" a joint project between Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson. Notes regarding Mrs. T. McDaniel interview; text of interview. Correspondence regarding book on black female teachers. Research notes. Text of speech about black WV schools. List of narrators. Facsimiles of newspaper clippings \"from Mrs. Rayford's Collection\" regarding desegregation of schools, 1955-1956. Newspaper clipping of AB interview regarding MTG.","Handwritten notes of [interview with] Marian Hatcher, WVU English Dept. teacher.","Print out of web page re: Dr. Ancella Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson, 1999 Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence. Project name: \"Life Experiences of Older, Black, West Virginian Women [Teachers]\"","Demographics of teachers' project. Map showing location of teachers. Narrative overview of the project. Paper \"Mosaic [sic] in Black and White: Black Teachers Remember School Integration in West Virginia\" [by] Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson; paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, MU, 2000. Annotated paper. Draft of paper \"Changing Lives and Potential Leadership: A Study of West Virginian Women Returning to College\" [by] Rita Wicks-Nelson, Lynda Ann Ewen, ca. 1997.","Correspondence between AB and RW-N and others re: book based on teachers' oral history interviews. Paper \"Black Education in West Virginia.\" Text of paper [by AB] \"Read @ WV Sociological Assoc. Annual Mtng. WVSC - Oct. 24, 1997.\" Letter from NB, 2005, asking for addenda to  West Virginia Law Review  paper about  Brown v. Board of Education.  Research notes. \" Fullen  corrected pp, AB,\" 2001. Letter requesting interview with Pearl Swann Carter, 2000.","Release form from Suzanne Slaughter, 1998","Correspondence, edits, research notes with RW-N. Book reviews from The Appalachian journal, 2005. List of women interviewed. Background and summaries for interviewees.","Research materials re: education in WV;  Brown v Board of Education.  Possible participants; call for participants; correspondence with participants Writing retreat brochure and correspondence. Project update to the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at MU. Draft of summary of results. Summary data forms and interview guide. Schedule of interviews. Letter from parent to teacher, Anna McCright. Flyer announcing talk by AB and RW-N. Luncheon flyer from the Fayette County Black Caucus.","Life stories, some annotated or edited, for Vivian Williams Fleming, Eliza Jane Campbell Dillard, Anna McCright, and Mary Montgomery.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Louise Anderson. Newspaper clipping of obituary.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Bradshaw. Handwritten notes on folder.","Oral History Review  article, 2001, re: school segregation. Email with list of changes to the transcript. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Pearl Swann Carter, 2001.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Florence Casey, 1997","Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ottrus Chatman, 1999. Typed and handwritten notes on the interview.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Verona Clarke, 1997.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. E. Jane Dillard, 1999.","Handwritten notes on the interview. Correspondence with Mrs. Elston. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary M. Elston, 1997.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Eunice Fleming, 1999.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Vivian Williams Fleming, 1997. Handwritten notes.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Norma Jean Fullen, 1997.","Handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Susie Guyton, 1997.","Handwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Willie Hise, 1999.","Typed and handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Floristine Holland, 1998.","Handwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. B'Alma Jones, 1999.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Miss Anna McCright, 1999.","Corrected transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Thelma McDaniel, 1999.","Letter to Mrs. McDaniel. Typed notes and pages from the interview. Letter from Norman L. Jones re: Thelma McDaniel and the Price and White families, 2001.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Edris Miller, 1998.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Montgomery, 1997. Overview for Mrs. Montgomery. Letter to her. Pages of the interview with corrections. List of names and addresses for interviewees.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Ms. Doris Payne, 1999.","Overview for Ruby Brown Reeler. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ruby Reeler, 1997. Handwritten transcript of a quote from the interview. Handwritten notes on the folder.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Nancie Smith Robinson, 1999.","Transcripts pages of interview with FH [Floristine Holland?] Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzanne Slaughter, 1998.","Obituary for Mary Crozier Snow, 2011. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Snow, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Snow with corrections, 2001.","Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Fannie Ashe Thomas, 1999.","Handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Twyman, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Twyman re: corrections, 2001.","Includes books, manuscripts, facsimile pages, and other publications not written by Bickley, who was sometimes asked to provide feedback on writing. Forms of writing include family histories, poems, short stories, plays, novels, and both scholarly and popular articles. Other writers include: Sharon M. Draper, Charles Lloyd, Hannah N. Geffert, Peri Lynne Johnson, L. O'B. Thomson, Nelson L. Barnett, J. McHenry Jones, Judith Stitzel, Elizabeth Taylor Brown, and Phyllis Moore.","A Memorial to the Scott, Carter, Mumford Families and the Journey from the Hills of North Carolina to the Beautiful Ohio Shore in the Year 1844  by Edith Dove Bryant, original and one facsimile. Article \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" 1990.","My Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843  by Patricia Clark Bulla. Handwritten genealogy chart for James M. Laidley","Poem \"Old Lady Sady and the Chicken Wings\" c1992 Sharon M. Draper","My Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843  by Patricia Clark Bulla. Laidley-Summers-Quarrier family line","Manuscript for  Aesculapius, Ebony  by Nelson L. Barnett, M.D.","\"…Tryin' to Get Home…\": A Journal,  a compendium of biographies, family histories, community histories, etc. by the John Henry Memorial Committee.","\"The Search for Larry Doby\" by Bob Stitzel in  Sports Collectors Digest , December 1, 1989. Letter from Judith Stitzel critiquing short stories \"The Woman in the Lavender Hat,\" \"Hush Now Child,\" \"Sweets,\" and \"Jones.\" Manuscripts of Stitzel's stories \"My New York Yankees,\" \"Cover-Up,\" \"Hearing Aids,\" \"Unbecoming a Jew.\" Letter from Stitzel regarding order of stories.","Manuscript for book about West Virginia State College.","Correspondence with Phyllis Moore re: WV writers. Annotated stories \"It Ain't Her!,\" \"The Crossing,\" and \"On This Rock,\" short stories by AB. Photo of AB and unidentified woman. \"'Talking about home…': Yes, We Have Authors\" by Phyllis Wilson Moore.","Project overview for Greenbrier Valley African-American life. J. McHenry Jones' novel  Hearts of Gold  with highlighted passages and annotations. Background research materials.","Facsimile of  The Jones Family  by John L. Jones.","Correspondence with Hannah N. Geffert re: Black History Conference and her annotated story \"The Guns of October.\"","\"History of Lakin Hospital: Pulling for the Stars\" by Elizabeth Taylor Brown. Reviewers' comments.","The Plays of Ann Kathryn Flagg  published by Amistad, Inc., Ancella Bickley, Director.","\"Black High Schools in West Virginia\" prepared by R. Charles Byers.","Writings of Peri Lynne Johnson, AB's niece, some with annotations.","Review of \"The History of Lakin State Hospital\" by Elizabeth Brown; manuscript.","Drafts and final papers written by L. O'B. Thompson who taught at WVSC.","Aesculapius, Ebony  by Nelson L. Barnett. Brief biography of Carl Eugene Barnett. Facsimile of photograph of \"Reverend Nelson Barnett, Circa 1900.\"","Paper and letter of transmittal for \"The Peters Sisters: An Historical Omission\" by Norman Jordan. Research notes on the sisters: Ethel and Ada Peters.","Typewritten notes about various novels, movies, and other works. Discussion questions for some.","Inscribed play \"Day to Day: a Drama in One Act\" by Maryat Lee. Article \"'…To Will One Thing: a New Look at Theater\" [by] Maryat Lee, from  Drama Review , 1983. Materials re: EcoTheater including scholarly articles.","Includes black and white historical photographs, slides, and contemporary color photographs. Additional photographs can be found throughout the collection. Most photos are black and white facsimiles of original historical photos of people and places significant to Bickley's research and publications. Subjects include educational institution buildings and students; other institution buildings; the Radford family; Bickley and Bickley with others. The contemporary color photos include ones of the memorial statues on the West Virginia Capitol grounds; Potomac State College campus; Bickley and others; and the social event A Red Hat Party celebrating women.","Photos: graduating class at Bluefield State College; Barnett School Orchestra, Huntington, with Nellie Francisco; school children at Lincoln School, Wheeling, 1912; unidentified football team; buildings at Bluefield State College and West Virginia State College.","Photos, invitation to, and follow up for a birthday celebration for AB, and a Red Hat Party to celebrate older women. Poem about AB.","Photographs of building details; street scenes; two black women [Alberta Coleman]; NB; campus, Potomac State College, buildings including Academy Hall and Duke Anthony Whitmore/Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Academic Achievement Wall.","Photos of statues on the WV State Capitol grounds: prints, proof sheet with numbered descriptions, and a CD. Annotated text to accompany photos and titled \"Statuary on the Grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol.\" Brief history of the Capitol and the state of West Virginia.","\"Honoring Our Past: 1994 Calendar\" produced by the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. Calendar includes photos of school bands, Bluefield NAACP chapter, Hopewell barber shop in Martinsburg, and schools.","Copies of group photographs of children and a \"Special Citation Award to Mrs. Harry Gordon\"","Photo of unidentified family, 1901; restored photo and invoice for work, 2005.","Negatives and photos from AB's Red Hat Party","Variety of copies of historical photographs, most not identified, 1912-1918. Note stapled to folder removed, 10/17/1990.","1991 (3), 1993, 1994 calendar \"Honoring Our Past\" from the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. 1971 Black History Calendar [by] Raymond W. Lowry.","Facsimiles of photographs of students at WVSC including AB in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.","Photographs of AB and others at a presentation on CGW at Marshall University, President's Home. February 24, 1988.","Facsimile of undated photo [ca. 1942] of John W. Davis, Charles Rutherford, Austin W. Curtis, L.A. Toney, et al. On back: \"Received from Debby Jackson,  Goldenseal , 4/7/1997. Picture taken during construction of Washington-Carver Camp.\"","Photo of AB with author Alice Walker at the University of Charleston, [1999]. Photo of AB with Ken Sullivan, Executive Director of the WV Humanities Council, 2002.","Includes examples of Bickley's contribution to a number of public service projects both in a professional capacity and as a citizen. Includes these formats:  \nplanning documents,  \ncorrespondence,  \nmeeting notes, and  \nagendas for these organizations:  \n-Amistad, Inc., a publishing company she formed;  \n-West Virginia Humanities Foundation;  \n-Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program, Berea College;  \n-The EcoTheater in Lewisburg, for which she served as board member;  \n-National Council of Teachers of English, for which she was National Director;  \n-West Virginia Archives and History Commission, of which she was a member; and  \n-Marshall University colloquium on black history.","Most notable are the grant applications, programs, and correspondence from her work with the West Virginia Humanities Foundation. Bickley was President of the Board of Directors and wrote a ten-year history of the organization, 1974-1984. The files include background materials for a number of projects for which she or others received grants. For her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, her files include research materials about minority student achievement, and documents about the Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAAACK). Documenting her work with an organizing committee to clean up the Bethel Cemetery in Huntington, her files include calls for participants, flyers, lists of members, and more. One civic activity with no apparent formal organization includes a meeting with Governor Rockefeller to advocate for affirmative action in West Virginia government. More on Bickley's professional and community activities can be found in the Awards, Honors Series.","\"Notes from Meeting between WV SAC and Governor Rockefeller--June 13\" The SAC [Statistical Analysis Center] asked the governor to authorize another study concerning minority employment in West Virginia with the goal of supporting affirmative action and the employment of more minorities.","Humanities Scholar Resource Forms by Virginia Edwards (2/86), Judith G Stitzel, and Elayne Rapping for the project, \"Reel Visions: A Conference on Women and Film.\" \"Seminar for Professionals Scholar's Statement\" by AB.  The Midwest Quarterl y article \"The Humanities in Public Conversation.\" Publication: \"The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, 1974-1984, A Decade of Discovery\" which lists awards; AB was President of the Board of Directors.","Brochure for the 15th Year of the EcoTheater founded by Maryat Lee, 1975-1990. Letter of support fro grant to the EcoTheater, February 10, 1990. Business correspondence with members of the Board of Directors.","Notes, membership lists, and correspondence from meetings of the Bethel Memorial Park Interest Group. Various research notes regarding black WV doctors and other topics.","Invitation to Ronald Reagan's inauguration","Correspondence from Cecil H. Underwood and Earl Ray Tomblin regarding appointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, July 11, 2000-September 22, 2000.","Papers and notes from 1975 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conferences when AB was National Director. List of attendees. Black history newspaper clippings. NCTE Spring Institutes programs: April 4-8 in Buffalo, New York; and April 25-29 in Santa Barbara, California. Paper by NB \"Mini-Psychological Theory about Black Americans\"","Invitation to Jimmy Carter's inauguration, January 20, 1977.","Certificate of incorporation and other legal documents for Amistad, Inc. Humanities Foundation grant application. Correspondence, agendas for Board meetings, and notes from meetings.","Correspondence with William (Bill) Turner regarding a black history colloquium at Marshall and editing a special issue the  Appalachian Journal. Sojourner: Voice of the Eastern Kentucky Social Clubs , 1989.","Program for MU symposium \"Moving Toward Freedom: Slavery and Resistance.\" WV Humanities Foundation grant materials for \"Fact to Freedom: The Story of Slavery in West Virginia.\" Cost details for recreating a slave auction block. Photograph of 10th and Market in Wheeling, 1895.","Correspondence with Brucella and Norman Jordan re: the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum. Also a Humanities Council Grant, brochures, newspaper clippings, press releases. B. Jordan's curriculum vitia and job description with an appliation.","Materials supporting the proposal for WVSC's The Canty House being placed on the National Register of Historic Places.","Materials for collaboration of Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Achieving Excellence in Learning (AEL). Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials. Data on Kanawha County students.","Readings on teaching minority students, Ebonics. Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials.","Notes and correspondence pertaining to the evaluation of the Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program at Berea College.","Letter from the Governor of Montana. Itineraries. Correspondence re: trip.","Matted print of D. Richardson's drawing of the WV Colored Children's Home.","This series includes eleven subseries which highlight Bickley's research on black history in West Virginia and to a smaller extent black history in general. The subseries include her work on black history for many West Virginia counties with her research being more extensive for Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have their own subseries. The subseries for Research Notes and Collected Papers are: General, Biography; Cabell County, WV; Jefferson County, WV; Kanawha County, WV; Other WV Counties; Churches, Education; General; Organizations; Slavery; and the Underground Railroad.","Bickley researched a wide range of black history and black culture topics; for example, Aunt Jemima and the statue of a black boy as yard ornament, in addition to persons and events. The research provided background for her writings and was often incorporated into her works of fiction as well as historical accounts. Her papers include research notes and supporting sources on a wide range of topics with reference to black history and West Virginia black history.","Handwritten inventory of boxes with Post-it-Note \"Found AFTER boxing - This drawer-files are out of order so I don't know if it will be helpful. (Plus, my sister has horrible handwriting.\"","Post card from Mabel Hunter with Storer College Brackett Hall dorm room circled (1946). Photo of statue of Carter G. Woodson. 1850 mortality statistics for western section of Virginia.  Bulletin of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association , 1940. Program for the Mountain State Bar Association, Inc. Annual Awards Banquet, June 18, 1988. Partial transcript of \"Interview with Doris Miller, Huntington, WV\" regarding house purported to be on the underground railroad. Marriage records, 1869, Trinity Church, Parkersburg. \"Reading the Names\" program at Virginia Sate University of those lynched, 1868-1935; AB read the WV names, ca. 2011. Handwritten research notes. Notes on census slave records. Proposed black history highway markers, 2001. Newspaper clipping about Huntington Tuskegee Airmen, 2009. Email from Brucella Jordan requesting a recommendation; paragraph regarding the founding of the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum, 2010. Email from David Trobridge invitation to speak at Marshall University, 2011. Facsimile of pages from the Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics regarding the Episcopal Church in West Virginia. Roster of Negroes serving in state and local government, ca. 1968. \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black].\" \"Slavery in Western Virginia\" (notes for an exhibit?)","Correspondence and research notes regarding the black history of Gallipolis, Ohio. Love story by Harry Dolphis Scott, Bidwell, Ohio. Typed lists from Carter G. Woodson's Free Negro Head of Families (1830), Town of Gallipolis.","Newspaper clippings from the Herald-Dispatch, 1981. Brochure: \"Graduates of Distinction: Michael Perry, Ancella Bickley\" from the Education Alliance, 2002","Various articles regarding blues music. Multiple facsimiles of \"Bessie Smith, 1898-1937, A Short Blues Anthology,\" 1971; one with annotations.","Various articles including the legend of Jocko, subject of a lawn ornament, and a 1971 black history calendar by Raymond W. Lowry which highlights achievements.","2 nd Annual John Henry Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia: Herbs and Traditional Medicine [by] Roscoe Leonard.","Typewritten paper about spirituals","Journal, newspaper, and magazine articles about black history, Carter G. Woodson, Nelson Bickley, and the methyl isocyanate leak in Institute, 1984.","Prospective Sites Relating to Black History in Canada  by William N. T. Wylie, June 1994.","Research materials regarding the holiday, Juneteenth, which celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation. Text of two speeches.","\"The Black Literary Tradition of West Virginia: A Bio-Critical Survey\" [by] Leonard J. Deutsch","The booklet (2 copies) \"History of African-American Miners in Appalachian Coal Fields: Black History Month, February, 2000\" Funeral program for Ulysses Grant Carter, teacher at Kimball High School.  A Saga of Service: A History of the Mining Extension Service of West Virginia State College, 1937-1957  by Cecile M. McCormick and U.G. Carter.","Facsimiles of pages from reports from the WV Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics.","Correspondence and attached materials from Sara J. Sow re: blacks in Gallia County, Ohio. \"Why We Celebrate Our Culture and Church\" about churches in Lawrence County, Ohio.","Correspondence with and writings of James Fisher, Berkeley County.","Background research notes and materials about Cuba.  National Geographic  article \"Evolution in the Revolution: CUBA.\" Poems by or translated by Nelson A. Ossorio.","Correspondence with Joan C. Browning re: content for the Henrietta Marie exhibit; white women in the civil rights movement. Biography. Resume. Newspaper clippings; article \"Invisible Revolutionaries: White Women in Civil Rights Historiography.\" Program and other materials for the WVU panel for the Rush Holt History Conference. Commentary from John Raines re: J. Browning and David Mussat's contributions to the RDH Conference; annotated JB paper \"Religion Gave Me Power to Witness\" and David Mussat's paper \"Sticks and Stone: an Interpretation of Power and Religion in the Movement.\"","Research materials on many aspects of WV Black history including newspaper clippings, scholarly articles, meeting programs, and the text of an Odd Fellows speech.","\"Negro Coal Miners in West Virginia, 1875-1925\" from the  Midwest Journal , 1954. Reprint of \"Negro Migration to the Mining Fields of West Virginia\" from the  Proceedings, West Virginia Academy of Sciences , 1936.","Handwritten research notes. Research materials re: WV history. Typed notes on WV black history. 1955 newspaper article re: integration of schools.","Correspondence regarding black WV historical markers. Resignation as a Commissioner for the WV Division of Culture and History. Program for Roosevelt Junior High School Award Assembly, June 2, 2000; Bickley is on the program for the East End History Essay.","Programs for West Virginia Conference on Black History at the First Baptist Church in Charleston, April 22-23, 1988, and the Eighth Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History at Marshall University, November 10-11, 1995","Web page print out of article about Silas Green in minstrel show.","\"Fifth U.S. Colored Infantry\" by John F. Walter, rev. 1998. Includes information on Ohio and WV blacks.","\"Negro Participants in the Fields of the Theatre and Music Plus Associated Enterprises: Period: 1920-1960\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Booklet for The National [Negro] Opera [Company].","Paper titled \" School Desegregation Since  Brown  (1954): 30-Year Perspective\" by Franklin Parker, WVU Professor of Education, 1984. Two pages of annotated text of a speech about education of black West Virginians, [delivered at WVU].  Daily Athenaeum  article re: interview Nelson Bickley about discrimination in housing in Morgantown, 1971. Program for \"The West Virginia Experience in Higher Education: an Historical Perspective\" at WVU, 1984, when AB was on a panel. Facsimile of the pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU\" 1971-72. Correspondence from the Ohio University Press re: manuscript review of the book  Memphis Tennessee Garrison  by William H. Turner, 1999. \"History of DuBois High School\" from a book. Map of slave plantations in Wood County, Va. Map of Underground Railroad routes to Canada, 1898.","Email correspondence primarily between AB and her daughter Ancella Livers re: access to WWII Soldiers' letters at the New York Public Library. Email from Della [Hardman?] re: Belle Powell and Ravella Hughes.","Includes biographical material for many people of interested to Bickley. Types of material include correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings and articles, photographs, various facsimiles, and more. Subjects of research notes and collected materials include: Carter G. Woodson, Dick Pointer, Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, John Henry, Ravella Hughes, John Wesley Harris, Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden, Della Brown Taylor, Bessie Yancey, Mollie Gabe (Mary Elizabeth Johnson), Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, J. McHenry Jones, Stonewall Jackson, Gwen McMillion Bingham, and William Cathay. Additional topics include: blacks in WV literature; black women; Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill; and black WV legislators. Biographical information is also included in the Interviews and Oral History Interviews series.","Newspaper clippings. Partial notes [speech] J. McHenry Jones including John R. Clifford, Christopher Payne, and black legislators. Pages from a 1913 Congressional hearing on \"Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia\" with conditional pardon of Dan Chain highlighted. Memo, 1/18/03, from Alfonzo Dalton regarding interview with Ben Carson who was a Republican candidate for the US President in 2016.","Letter to researcher Sean Duff, November 19, 2012, and attached information regarding J. McHenry Jones and Wheeling. Letter to researcher L. Morris Jones, May 3, 1989. Newspaper clipping of article about  Hearts of Gold  which was written by J. McHenry Jones (JMJ). Various versions of \"James McHenry Jones: a Monologue\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Full and partial \"J. McHenry Jones, 1859-1909.\" Text of newspaper article about JMJ's opposition to the Evans Jim Crow Bill, February 14, 1907. Research notes including Jones family history. Facsimile of pages from  History of the Jones Family  by John L. Jones.","Research notes on Guion Bluford (?). Ed White, sculptor, biography. Facsimile of pages from the children's book  Black Stars in Orbit , [1995]","Correspondence between NB and The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Incorporated regarding preservation of the Carter G. Woodson house in Huntington. Correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey, regarding upkeep of the house.","Research materials on Dick Pointer, black Indian War hero, for an article for the  Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society ; the article; handwritten notes; various versions of the article. Research notes. Facsimile of a painting by S. Ross Browne, 1993.","Correspondence with Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Jr. Newspaper clipping: MU Commencement.","Correspondence with Adolphus Young regarding black West Virginia women, particularly MTG.","Washington Post  article \"In Quest of the Historical John Henry\" by Hank Burchard, August 24, 1969. Press release by Kyle McCormick, WV Dept. of Archives and History, 1957.  WV Hillbilly , June 23, 1979, \"A Salute to John Henry.\"","Handwritten notes about John Matheus, WVSC professor; his curriculum vitae, ca. 1953; reprint of an article from the  CLA Journal  by him, 1972.","Research notes about Revella Hughes","Research notes about William Hill for  Goldenseal  article about Tuskegee Airmen.","Research on John Brown including materials from the National Parks Service's John Brown Conference, 2000; an annotated Langston Hughes' poem \"October 16;\" and \"A Psychological Examination of John Brown.\"","Two newspaper clippings: one about Fannie Cobb Carter and one about Memphis Tennessee Garrison","Obituary and other information about Major General Charles \"Jackie\" Calvin Rogers. Documents regarding the naming of a United States Army Reserve Center for him. Text of NB's speech.","Goldenseal  article about John Wesley Harris. Facsimile of newspaper clipping about Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden.","Transcript of interview with AB by Ohio State University's WOSU about Della Brown Taylor [Hardman], a graduate of Garnet High School, artist, and teacher at WVSC.","Research notes. Transcript of conversation with Bruce Rogers regarding Aunt Jemima and Bruce Family history. Facsimiles of newspaper articles regarding Aunt Jemima.","Background research about the Sargent School of Physical Education; Sydney Taylor Brown who graduated from there and then WVSC; black women in the American Red Cross; and black women's service in WWII.  American Legacy , Winter 1999. Research notes.","Facsimile of pages from  History of the American Negro,  W.Va. Edition, vol. VII, [edited] by [A. D.] Caldwell.","Print outs of web pages regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. Photograph of monument in Walterboro, SC. Newspaper clippings.","Research materials pertaining to Carter G. Woodson including: journal and magazine articles; facsimile of book pages; newspaper clippings; and a masters degree thesis. Text of speeches and programs for speeches by both AB and NB. Invitation to a reception to honor Sen. and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in Huntington, April 20, 1960.","Poems, correspondence, and other writings by Bessie Yancey, Carter G. Woodson's sister. Photocopies of journal articles and WV Collegiate Institute publications. Special Carter G. Woodson issue of  Community,  published by Friendship House, Winter 1970. Issue of  The Journal of Negro History , July 1968.","Research materials on Mollie Gabe, also known as Mary Elizabeth Johnson, midwife from Falls Mill, Braxton County.","Research materials about John P. Parker, a former slave who was active in the UGRR in Ohio. Parker was also an inventor and a business man.","Research materials about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, McDowell County representative to the WV House of Delegates.","Letters to Bessie W. Yancey, CGW's sister. Research materials. Poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Correspondence re: restoration of the CGW home. Carter G. Woodson Memorial Committee and Foundation materials. Text of speech by AB. CGW stamps. Dedication of statue of CGW. Correspondence re: Ann Eliza Riddle Woodson family property. CGW genealogy prepared by Nelson Barnett, Jr. Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey. Text of paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Photographs of CGW and kin.","Correspondence from CGW to Bessie W. Yancey, re: house in Huntington, 1941. Book contract between Bessie W. Yancey for  Echoes in the Hills  and CGW's company, The Associated Publishers, 1939. Letter re: book to CGW from BWY, 1939. Letter from John W. Davis, President WVSC, to BWY, 1945, re: Nelson Bickley. Letter from BWY to Louis R. Mehlinger re: loss of two brothers, 1950. Envelope, no contents, from Joel A Rogers, 1951. Envelope, no contents, from The Associated Publishers, 1958. Photographic negative of BWY.","Research materials including newspaper clippings, correspondence, articles, and research notes on Carter G. Woodson; Bessie W. Yancey; Black History Month; restoration of the Woodson home; and the Woodson family. Annotated copy of the paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Facscimiles of Otis Woodson and CGW photos. Photo of Bessie Woodson Yancey and letter from BWY to CGW re: poetry. Edited entry for CGW from  The Encyclopedia of Black America . List of WV Collegiate Institutue, 1920/21 and 1921/22. Facsimile of correspondence between CGW and BWY re: house.","Research materials on J. McHenry Jones including facsimiles of obituaries; other newspaper clippings; and transcriptions of clippings. Photo of Hazlewood Assembly Hall. Notes [speech?] on JMJ. Timeline with sources. Paper about JMJ by AB. Jones family history.","Pages copied from book  The Hidden Years of Stonewall Jackson  purporting that he fathered a black child. From Merle Moore.","Research materials on Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill.","Text of a speech? \"African Americans in the West Virginia Legislature.\" Letter from C.A. Blankenship to  The Negro History Bulletin  adding names of Negroes who served in the WV Legislature, 1964. \"West Virginia's Black Female Legislators\" ca. 1991. Facsimile of photo with caption: \"President Harry S. Truman being shown a copy of America's first Black pictorial magazine. [There is some question which came first  Color  or  Ebony]  Left to right: Sippi Coleman, Pres. Truman, W.VA. Congressman, Dr. I.J.K. Wells Editor and Publisher of Color,\" ca. 1948. Newspaper clipping of article re: female legislators, 1998.","Facsimile of photo of \"Gabriel, Pardoned by VA Governor Tim Kaine, June 26, 2007.\" Research notes. Paper \"Major General Gwen McMillion Bingham,\" ca. 2011 with newspaper clipping. Facsimile of unidentified photograph of woman in uniform. Paper \"'Who Was William Cathay?' adapted from a piece in the St. Louis Daily Times, January 2, 1876.\" Poem \"Cathay Williams,\" 1997. Facsimile of enlarged photo of face of unidentified soldier. Summary/timeline for Cathay Williams/William Cathay.","Draft of \"Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1894-1979\"","Covers a wide range of topics on the history of Cabell County; Huntington, WV; and adjacent Ohio counties. Notable are Nelson Barnett's transcriptions of late 19th century Huntington newspaper articles regarding blacks. Also included are newspaper clippings, monographs, photos, biographies, and interviews about veterans, church history, education, organizations, and more.","\"References and Briefs to Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles, [June 15, 1872-October 21, 1898, and June 4, 1922-May 20, 1928]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr., 1988, from Huntington newspapers.","\"Black Veterans of World War I from Cabell County, W.Va., 1918.\" \"Past Imperfect, 1902: Articles of Interest, [Nov. 13, 1901-Dec. 31, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers.","\"Past-Imperfect, 1901: Articles of Interest, [Jan. 7, 1901-May 28, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers","Resources about blacks in Huntington and Cabell County. Includes a bibliography of  Goldenseal  articles about blacks. Other resources are church histories, listings of names, facsimiles of book chapters and papers, newspaper clippings, interviews, handwritten research notes, and more.","\"Progress of the Huntington Negro\" by Prof. J. W. Scott","\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, 1976. Genealogy for Edna Duckworth. \"Biohistrogenetics Project Proposal\" to the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, 1996-1997; Duckworth is listed as the visionary.","Marriage records, late 19th century, Cabell County.","Correspondence with Clara Knight. Facsimiles of Greenbottom Church, Huntington, records listing black members. Records regarding John Ball freeing his slaves, 1793. Map of Millersport, OH, 1887.","Correspondence with Bill Lindsay re: blacks in Huntington and Pocahontas County","Two newspaper clippings: one about Nellie Fransisco [sic] and AB's research about blacks on the Ohio River.","\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, [1976]. Census data for black families in Lawrence County, Ohio; 1850, 1860.","Photos of black workers in C\u0026O shop including Anderson Radford, AB's grandfather. Correspondence; transcription of newspaper articles; research notes; biographical sketches; photos of Goodes; newspaper clippings; church histories and programs; facsimiles of book pages; transcription of interviews; and bibliography.","Research notes. Photos. Paper \"Black People and the Huntington Experience.\" Project, \"A Sojourn for Truth: Revisiting Black History Along the Ohio River,\" overview. Research materials re: Huntington, Cabell County, and parts of Ohio. Transcript of interview with Suzette Spencer. \"The West Virginia Colored Children's Home\" by Ancella R. Bickley. \"Poke Patch/Black Fork, Ohio\"","Research notes on Douglass School. Typewritten notes on Douglass School, 1891-1924. Notes from conversation with Nellie Francisco. Handwritten transcription of article, 1902.","Covers research about blacks in Charlestown and Harpers Ferry as well as other locations in Jefferson County. Materials include obituaries, school histories, correspondence, cemetery records, research notes, and more about school integration, Storer College, slave collars, Fisherman's Hall, and more.","Research materials regarding blacks in Charlestown. Obituary for former slave George Jenkins in Huntington, 1917.","Paper about St. Philip's parochial school by James A. Tolbert. Materials re: Sons of Confederate Veterans tablet in Harper's Ferry. Other research materials re: Jefferson County and Charlestown.","Photos of a slave collar. Correspondence re: acquiring the collar for the Henrietta slave ship exhibit.","Correspondence with James Tolbert re: black CCC camp, McDowell County; Black History Conference; Fisherman's Hall, Charlestown, restoration; Harewood Cemetery, Jefferson County; marker for Martin Delany, Charlestown.","Research materials re: Harpers Ferry, the National Park, and Storer College.","Typewritten text of speech at Shepherd College, 2004. Transcript \"Discussion of Integration of Schools in Jefferson County: Jim Tolbert.\"","Handwritten research notes mostly re: John Brown and Harpers Ferry, ca. 2000.","Covers research about blacks in the WV Capitol, Charleston, and other locations in Kanawha County. Topics covered include slavery in the salt industry, biographies, wine cellars, and buildings. Contents include correspondence, facsimiles of documents, research papers, obituaries, newspaper clippings and more.","Research materials about slavery in West Virginia with focus on Kanawha County and the salt industry","Research materials on black attorney Thomas Gillis Nutter.","Research materials on Charleston, WV including: \"Unpublished Black History in the Early Kanawha Valley\" by William D. Wintz; \"Blacks in Charleston, West Virginia: A Survey of Their Presence in the Community and Occupational and Residential Patterns in the Early 1900s\" by Mary Johnson, WVU student. Research materials regarding Oscar Wayman Holmes, the first African American naval aviator and obituaries for C.H. James, prominent black businessman. Text of speech, \"Black People in Charleston,\" 1994.","Research materials on the Dutch Hollow wine cellars in Dunbar.","Documents regarding Samuel W. Starks and the Starks House in Charleston. Correspondence regarding its being put on the National Register of Historic Places.","Correspondence with Eugene Washington re: Phillis Wheatley School and Albert G. Brown, architect.","Excludes Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have separate subseries. Includes research materials about slavery, school integration, lynching, historic homes, and more researched by Bickley for these counties: Wayne, McDowell, Harrison, Greenbrier, Hardy, Fayette, Monongalia, Upshur, Wood, and Monroe; as well as the cities of Bluefield, Buckhannon, Keystone, Weirton, Weston, and Wheeling. Research materials include photographs, correspondence, brochures, newspaper clippings, book pages, articles, interviews, and more.","Various documents regarding blacks in Wayne County, WV; the Livisay family; writings by Tim R. Massey, 1981; the Lindsey family; photograph and negatives of a photograph of a black family.","Research materials on McDowell County, WV, with focus on the towns of Keystone and Keystone. Letters and notes from Adolphus A. Young, Jr.","Program for \"Freedom Is a Struggle: Glimpses of African-American Life in the Greenbrier Valley of [West] Virginia.\" Brochure \"Black Historic Sites in Lewisburg, West Virginia.\"","Newspaper clipping about Sarah Hall, black lawyer. Facsimiles of research materials. \"The History of the Negro in McDowell County and in West Virginia Leading Up to and Including the Integration of Schools\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Typewritten notes from Adolphus Young, Jr. Correspondence with Alphonso Dalton, Jr. regarding MTG and black McDowell County families","Facsimile of 1952 newspaper article regarding slaves listed in 1848 Harrison County tax book. Slave owners are listed and includes Nathan Goff.","Paper, author unidentified, regarding lynching in WV. Research materials about slaves in Greenbrier County","Correspondence regarding letter from a slave asking to be purchased by Stump family [1851]. Facsimile of letter.","Research notes and resources regarding Glenwood, historic home in Charleston. Clarksburg newspaper article of reminiscences of a former slave, Ann Freeman and others. Clarksburg newspaper article regarding Union Veterans Association.","Research materials for Fayette County including contacts list, newspaper articles, maps, facsimiles of pages from books, student research paper, church histories, handwritten research notes, and grant applications. Correspondence with and Lucille Meadows and her handwritten reminiscences.","Newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical records. Partial manuscript for  To Be Black in Fayette  and annotated pages. \"Black Politics in Fayette County, West Virginia, 1896-1918\" by Daniel Wright. Text of speech by Daniel Wright. Brochure titled \"Camp Washington-Carver: a Compendium of the First African-American 4-H Camp.\"","Research materials and research notes:  Monongalia Blacks Speak : Women, Part II and Men, Part I, Holland family, schools. Interview with Grace Edwards Waters.","Research materials about Weirton.","Research materials about Upshur County. Facsimiles of articles written by R.H. Ralston, Sr. regarding Buckhannon's black history; newspaper clippings. \"A History of Blacks in Buckhannon: The Recollections of Harriet Warfield,\" an interview with Harriet Warfield, 1977.","Research materials regarding blacks in Wheeling. \"Wheeling's Black Population: A General Perspective\" written and presented by Darryl Clausell, Pat Dudley, with contributors Kathryn Snead and Dorothy Cooper, 1990. Correspondence with Margaret Brennan. Photo of AB, Pat Dudley, Brennan, and Annie Tanks at an Oral History Seminar in Wheeling.","Correspondence regarding Memphis Tennessee Garrison. Research materials on Gary and other McDowell County locales: newspaper clippings,  Goldenseal  article.","Papers by Wheeling Jesuit Students Joel Michael Coulson and Beau Conway.","Research resources regarding blacks in Fayette County, WV, including transcripts of oral history interviews with Lucille Meadows, Mrs. Turner, Charista Davis, Lula Lall Jones, Rosa Roach and Jessie Barrett; correspondence, church histories and programs. Includes Smoot family information.","Transcripts of interviews with Alease Watkins, David W. Turner, Russell Lee Matthews, and Elsie Choice Hopkins. Also, includes research notes, newspaper clippings, a grant application, facsimiles of book pages, and correspondence.","Photo of Lomax Hospital in Bluefield. Brochures for Afro-Appalachian Performance Company. Correspondence with Joseph Bundy re: history alive performances. Research materials about black Bluefield hospitals.","Correspondence with Ray Swick re: blacks in Wood County. Research notes. Correspondence with the Wood County Bicentennial Commission re: speech.","Court record for  Mullens v. County Court , 1932. Facsimile of WV entry from  100 Years of Lynchings  by Ralph Ginzburg. \"The Greenbrier County Lynching: a Study of West Virginian Justices\" by Ancella Bickley Livers. \"'Reading the Names,' Program at Virginia State University.\"","Research notes re: Parkersburg black history. Facsimile of letter and transcription of letter from ex-slave Isaac Fairfax to George Washington Henderson.","Letter from Charles (Charley) Goddard re: Greenbrier County history and Sharlotta Gardner contact information.","Copy of photo and negative of lynching. Photos of black children. Note from Maurice Allman, Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants. Transcripts of  Weston Democrat  articles re: 1892 lynching of Edgar Jones. Transcripts re: 1910 lynching. Research notes on these incidents. Application for the Weston Colored School to be placed on the National Register of Historical Places. Research notes re: Weston State Hospital. Correspondence re: dedication of the Central West Virginia Genealogical and Historical Library, formerly the Weston Colored School. Handwritten transcription of interview with Rahleen Gardner who attended the School. Transcript of conversation with Mrs. Joy Gilchrist, 1992.","Transcripts of interviews with Mr. Waldo Lacy and Mrs. Gladys Lacy. Facsimile of newspaper article of speech by T.J. Ferguson, 1870. Research materials on the Sumner School. History of Parkersburg from Bernie Allen. Facsimile of books pages, newspaper articles, and transcription of newspaper articles. Parkersburg Art Center brochure featuring Joseph Eldridge Dodd. Text for slide show (no slides). Typewritten outline of \"Parkersburg Study.\"","Facsimiles of newspaper articles. Correspondence with Ray Swick, Blennerhassett Island State Park. Research materials about blacks in Wood County. Research notes. \"A History of Sumner School\" written by Sally Browning, 1996.  The Island Packet  from the Friends of Blennerhassett Island.","Background research on blacks in Monroe County. Correspondence with Fawn Valentine and Presidents of the Monroe County Historical Society. \"Bishop Matthew W. Clair, Sr.: a Biography\" by Dr. Margaret B. Ballard, 1973.","Includes programs, bulletins, correspondence, research notes, and histories of black West Virginia churches in Fayetteville, Charleston, Charlestown, Fairmont, St. Albans, Parkersburg, Huntington, and Alderson. Also includes a history of churches and lodges in West Virginia as well as histories of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Galilean Fisherman lodges. Denominations represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Episcopalian, and Baptist.","Correspondence with Lucile S. Meadows regarding help with the Second Baptist Church, Fayetteville, Centennial; racial tolerance in schools","\"125th Anniversary Journal\" First Baptist Church, February 1, 1868-February 28, 1993, Charleston, WV","Time line for black Episcopalians in WV. \"The First Hundred Years: a History of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Charles Town.\" Research notes and sources. Humanities Foundation of WV grant application by Florita Montgomery to study the history of St. Phillips' Episcopal Church. Information on the Trinity Church in Parkersburg. Photograph including some black congregants.","1907 Weekly Bulletin of Diamond St. M.E. Church in Fairmont","Book titled  Miracle on B Street Continues  about St. Paul Baptist Church's (St. Albans) 131st anniversary.","Letter re: slide presentation at the Young Chapel African American Methodist Episcopal Church. Program for the 94th Church Anniversary. Handwritten time line and other notes. Booklet of photographs, text of Bickley's speech, newspaper clipping.","\"Black Churches and Lodges in West Virginia in Their Infancy, 1865-1900\" by J. Reuben Sheeler. \"History of Bright Hope Lodge #9, F.\u0026A.M. and - P.H.A. Montgomery WV.\" Facsimile of pages \"Introduction and Growth of the Grand United States Order of Odd Fellows in America.\" Notes \"Knights of Pythias of West Virginia History\" researched by James A. Tolbert. Notes about \"Grand United Order of the Galilean Fisherman\" compiled by Ann Wilson.","Email correspondence with Adrienne Belafonte re: a newspaper article about the Shiloh Baptist Church in Alderson. Clipping of the article.","Program for First Baptist Church 125th Anniversary, 1997. Program for installation of Rev. William F. Buchanan, First Baptist Church, 1988.","Includes newspaper clippings, text for presentations, correspondence, research notes, articles, commencement programs, interviews and more about state and national teachers' organizations, historically black WV colleges including West Virginia State College and West Virginia University, integration of schools, histories of specific schools, the Kanawha County textbook controversy, and more.","Newspaper articles: WV Education Association (WVEA) Executive Committee meeting, the National Education Association (NEA) and the need for minority teachers; and recommendations from the Black Caucus,  WV School Journal , December 15, 1973. Photograph of Blacks in auditorium seating, ca. 1950s","Multiple facsimiles of a post card picturing Albert Long, \"Bertie\" -- Aunt Onie's Son. West Virginia State College Commencement Programs: 1948, 1950, 1951","Information sheets and travel plans for trip to Egypt, July 5, 1987, sponsored by WVSC. Passport and Visa information written on folder.","Various versions of text for a multi-media program on the history of West Virginia State College (WVSC) and Institute, WV","Letter to Edmonia Grider from Marjorie [Counts] regarding the Hilltop School, October 7, 1974.","Manuscript discussing integration and black teachers in WV, author unknown. Speech (?) regarding school integration. Research notes. Annotated speech: \"Black Education in West Virginia\" delivered in Shepherdstown.","Research materials on the integration of WV schools: facsimiles of WV newspaper articles regarding integration of schools; \"How Black Students Saw Themselves through the Decades of Change at Bluefield State College (founded in 1895) as It Changed from Predominately Black Institution to a Predominantly White Institution\" by James Worsham","Program for the Alpha Delta Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 19th annual Jabberwock, March 16th, 1949. Dance invitation, 1948. WVSC Commencement program, 1949. Washington Alumni Chapter banquet, 1976, to roast John W. Davis. Newspaper articles","Vocational and Educational Survey for the Kanawha County Negro Schools  by Andrew H. Calloway, 1945.","Correspondence, photos, newsletter, and newspaper clippings regarding the Douglass High School (Huntington) Reunion. Notes on class of 1947. Newspaper clipping regarding NB. Photo YWCA Y-Teens, Douglas High School, Christmas, 1946.","Research notes on schools in Keyser and Piedmont, WV, including a facsimile of book pages from  Howard School: a History, 1877-1955 regarding a black student strike for a better school in 1939. Notes on interview with Alberta Coleman, Piedmont, WV. Notes from interview with Opal Coates Carter, and other research notes, regarding Woolworth Fire, Charleston, WV, [ca. 1964s].","Compilation, by R. Charles Byers, of resources regarding WV black schools.","Annotated pages for \"Integration in West Virginia\"","Bulletin of West Virginia State College , Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\"","Affirmative action statistics for Bluefield State College, 1984. \"Pride and Preservation: West Virginia State College\" seminars which included Alex Haley as a speaker, 1979. Newspaper article re: archives at West Virginia State College, 1979.  Southern Rural Women's Network Newsletter , June, 1983. Photograph of Alex Haley with inscription and signed letter from Alex Haley to NB, 1970.","Research notes and materials for research on education in Mason County, WV","Research materials regarding the Lincoln School in Wheeling, WV","West Virginia State College Bulletin , April 1941, Series 28, No. 2. Handwritten transcription of an article in  The Advocate , 1907.","Program for One Hundred Fifth Commencement, Huntington High School, 1971. Photo of AB, West Virginia State College Commencement, May 17, 1986.","Report of the Twenty-first Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education , 1983, including paper by AB on the Kanawha County textbook controversy and censorship.","Facsimile of a brief historical sketch of Storer College, 1867-1891, by Kate J. Anthony, 1891.","Newspaper clippings and other sources relating to the West Virginia Seminary and College and the Hilltop Baptist Center.","\"Integration in Reverse at West Virginia State College\" by Elizabeth Duran and James A. Duran, Jr.","Correspondence, interviews, newspaper clippings, and facsimiles of photos re: WVSC's East Hall. Research notes.","WV Humanities Council grant application for a presentation on black education in Parkersburg. Research materials and notes. Handwritten and typed notes from interviews with Mrs. Dorsey, Mr. James Emondson, Mrs. Hattie Gazelle Turner, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell. Particular focus on the Sumner School.","Photo slides of WVSC buildings, presidents, etc. Post cards of WVSC buildings and Institute. Note cards from a lecture. Research materials on all aspects of WVSC history.","Research materials on many aspects of WVSC history including faculty information. Includes these publications: \"ROTC in Review: 40 Years of Tradition;\" \"West Virginia State College Glee Club;\" Alumni Association, Los Angeles Chapter, Scholarship Luncheon program, 1989;","Program for Convocation and Dedication of the Harold Maceo McNeill Physical Facilities Plant, WVSC, 1999.","Letter from AB re: retirement of Justine Gutzmer; retirement announcement for Gerald Cote, Beatrice Dupass, Gutzmer, and Darthulia Jones. Facsimile of WWII death notice of Oliver Johnson to his parents and his obituary. Johnson was Gutzmer's brother.","Booklet of texts and order of ceremonies for the WVSC commencement program, 1985.","Includes background research on the Montgomery Woman's Improvement League, the West Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Mountain State Bar Association, and the West Virginia Medical Society. Research materials include a yearbook, programs, correspondence, a members list, and more.","Montgomery Woman's Improvement League Year Book , 1955-56 and 1960-61. Program for West Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. Annual Convention, 1959. Newspaper photojournalism article regarding the College Alumni Club 50th anniversary history booklet. Program for the Annual Debutante Ball sponsored by Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1958. Correspondence with Katherine Atwater regarding resources.","Program for the Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet of the Mountain State Bar Association, 1985. List of members, 1986.","Paper titled \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black]\" Article: \"Historically Black Medical Colleges: From Scorn to Success\" from  The Boule Journal , 2004.","This subseries includes maps, research papers, newspaper clippings, letters, census data, newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical slave documents, and more. Other materials regarding slavery can be found in county subseries and the Underground Railroad Subseries.","West Virginia map. \"Number of Slaves in Counties Which Became WV\" 1850, 1860. Typescript of  Historical Atlas of West Virginia  by Frank S. Riddel.","Handwritten notes on John Marshall; Marshall and slavery; Marshall and Robin Spurlock, his servant. Typed observations. Resource materials.","Facsimiles of legislation and resolutions to abolish slavery; and a list of representatives at the state convention in Wheeling.","Research materials. Typewritten manuscript[s] by James Oliver Horton. Codes for occupations. Copy of newspaper article.","Newspaper clipping and multiple facsimiles of an article about a slave breeding farm in Greenup, KY.","Research materials about slaves in Ohio Valley plantations and adjacent WV counties. Photocopies of photographs of Mary and plantation sites.","Facsimiles of: newpaper slave ads; Virginia law re: Kanawha Slave Insurance Company; Dunsmore's Proclamation freeing slaves; Va. Law to send slave to Liberia; slaves in Bunker Hill; New York Times article re: slave uprising; and drawing of [Harpers Ferry]. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Afro-American materials. \"History of Gerrardstown\" in  The Berkeley Journal . Handwritten list of properties, including slave names, of Richard B. Washington, [1864]. Letter of transmittl and facsimile of bill of sale for slave, 18[4]5. Transcription of Rumsey-Polk letters re: slaves.","Handwritten research notes and research materials regarding reparations for slavery; text of NB speech; typewritten notes.","Annotated manuscript \"Compensatory Justice: Over Time and Between Groups\" by Renee A. Hill; text of introduction of a speech about reparations; newsapper clippings; web page print outs; articles.","West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter  with articles re: slave letters.  West Virginia Then and Now  article re: John Brown's letter. Research re: images of blacks in journalism. Research notes.","Facsimile of tables of free Negro listings from 1830 census. \"Researching Virginia's Slave and Free Negro Records\"","Facsimile of newspaper article, 1934, re: Mount Pisgah Church, Proctorville, OH. \"The Way It Was…\" by Betty Burcham, a history of UGRR and Mount Pisgah Church. Facsimile of will of Eliza Goode freeing Sully Smith, her husband and her slave, 1848. Facsimile of two receipts for purchase of slaves, 1852. Research notes re: Ohio slaves and fugitives to WV.","This subseries includes text of a speech made by Bickley, books, slides, photographs, brochures, post cards, correspondence, maps, and more. The materials focus on parts of Ohio across the river from Huntington as well as West Virginia. Some topics are quilt codes, abolitionists, runaway slaves, location of Underground Railroad sites, and more.","Research materials about Serena Wilson and the book  Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.","Photos \"Trip to Doddridge County to visit Jaco Hill/cave - UGRR Site - w/Karen Nance, Sandra Moats, \u0026 Judy Wilinson, 6/20/01. Other research materials","Research materials on the Underground Railroad with focus on Ohio.","Brochures and post cards regarding the UGRR and the film \"Nightjohn.\" Correspondence with Margaret Brennan, organizer for the UGRR Summit in Wheeling. \"Reflections on the West Virginia UGRR Summit\" by Cathy D. Nelson; photo of AB speaking at the Summit and with Amanda Nelson and Sherry [Sowchuck].","Correspondence from Alicestyne Turley-Adams re: Underground Railroad Network Partnership.","Correspondence with Lucille Deberry and other research materials re: the UGRR, some in West Virginia.","Correspondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR in WV counties.  Exploring a Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad , 1998, 2nd ed. from the National Park Service. List of UGRR sites in WV.","Photograph slides, numbered and identified. Research materials mostly about Ohio. \"Draft Proposal to Establish a National Underground Commemorative, Interpretive, and Research Center, City of Huntington, West Virginia\" 1994. Itinerary for trip to Washington to meet with Interior Dept. officials and Robert C. Byrd's staff.","Book chapter \"In Gallia and Miegs Counties\" from  The Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroad  by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 1951. Facsimile of handwritten narrative by an abolitionist, [1892]. Facsimile of letter from R. C. Rankin re: father Rev. John Rankin, 1892. Research notes on WV runaway slaves. Facsimile of letter to Daniel ? to Cyrus Little re: UGRR, 1894. Map of UGRR, 1860. Requests for copies from the Siebert papers. More facsimiles of records.","Background materials on the Underground Railroad in Ohio.","Research materials including newspaper clippings and research notes on the Underground Railroad","Research materials re: the Underground Railroad. Research notes.","Facsimiles of documents pertaining to slaves in Jefferson County, VA. Itinerary for Underground Railroad tours [Ohio?].  The Escape of Jane: a True Story of the Underground Railroad  by Henry Burke \u0026 Dick Croy. Henry Robert Burke correspondence. Brochure on Henderson Hall, Wood County. Dick Croy correspondence and resume. Newspaper articles by Burke. \"Black Cultural Sites in West Virginia\" compiled by Michael Pauley and Peter Jesus, 1990","Correspondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR. WV and county maps. Facsimile of pages from \"From the Charles River Shire, 1634-1643, to the Present Day Counties: Harrison, Doddridge, Ritchie, Wood, Pleasants and Tyler\" by Barr Wilson. Research materials on the UGRR. Research notes. \"The Anti-Slavery Movement in West Virginia,\" a speech delivered by Sandra Moats Burke.","Research materials re: quilts and the Underground Railroad, 2001-2011. Notes re: Eliza Farrow, 2005. Paper \"The UGRR Quilt Code\" by Leigh Fellner. Research notes; newspaper clipping; facsimile of web page and transcription of story in an email \"Secret Quilt Code on Exhibit until 10/6,\" 2012; and September 2012 issue of Underground Railroad Free Press.\" Mini-grant for UGRR quilts materials, 2013.","Underground Railroad: Official National Park Handbook .","Includes manuscripts and publications for books; plays and reenactor monologues; short stories; magazine and scholarly articles; and other forms of writing in both print and handwriting. Five subseries encompass the various genres of her writing. Also includes background and research materials for the subjects for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction.","Includes research materials for topics of articles. Subjects and formats treated are: encyclopedia entries in the biographical dictionary African American Architects; drafts and final versions of entries for both people and institutions for the West Virginia Encyclopedia; drafts and final versions of articles about Molly Gabe and Carter G. Woodson for Appalachian Heritage; newspaper articles for the Charleston (WV) Gazette Mail and Village Neighbors (FL) on a number of topics including George Wesley Atkinson, 10th governor of West Virginia, but especially for Black History Month and its founder Carter G. Woodson; Goldenseal articles about a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, Jessie Moon Thomas, Edward Greer, the Charleston Women's Improvement League, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, and West Virginia's Tuskegee Airmen; contribution to a symposium on diversity and change for Appalachian youth; and a study guide for a Charleston, WV, performance of Zora Neale Hurston's Spunk.","Articles by Ancella Bickley from the  Goldenseal Magazine","Correspondence regarding use of the Goldenseal article \"Camp War: Remembering CCC Company 3538-C\" in an online education guide by the WV State Museum.","Annotated manuscript and research notes for Goldenseal article \"Education and Activism in Gary: a Visit with Jessie Moon Thomas.\" Correspondence with Mrs. Thomas including notes on the Froe and Moon families.","Issue of the journal  Appalachian Heritage  containing AB article \"Profiles: Mollie Gabe\" by Ancilla  [sic]  Bickley.","\"Remembering Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Black History'\" in  Village Neighbors , [a publication of the Village in Florida where the Bickley's resided.] Typed notes on Carter G. Woodson. Transcription of letter from Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, including text of the poem \"If You Live in West Virginia.\" CGW black history quiz prepared for the Spicy Ladies meeting.","Typed text of autobiographical musings about friendship: likens travel in the south in 1952 to the Underground Railroad travel; and includes details about the move to Morgantown in 1966.","Correspondence with  Goldenseal  regarding \"Edward Greer: First Black General from West Virginia\" and potential story about 1939 black student strike in Piedmont, WV. Manuscripts for Greer article.","Correspondence and drafts of a  Goldenseal  article \"Lifting as We Climb\" about the Charleston Woman's Improvement League. Research materials including facsimiles of photographs. Newspaper article about Judge Irene Berger, McDowell County.","Research materials on Carl Eugene Barnett and Robert Edward Lee Washington for entries in  African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945 .","Spiral bound program for  A Different World: Symposium on Diversity, Change, and Appalachian Youth,  2006, where Bickley was a panelist.","Appalachian Heritage , Summer 2008, which includes \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection\" by Ancella Bickley","Appalachian Heritage , Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia, 1991, which includes Bickley's \"Molly Gabe\" in the Profiles section.","Goldenseal , Winter 2011, containing AB's article \"General Edward Greer: West Virginia's First Black General.\"","Correspondence with Dreck S. Wilson re: contribution to the book  Biographical Dictionary of African-American Architects, 1865-1945.","Research materials about George Wesley Atkinson, tenth governor of WV who attended Howard University. Paper titled \"West Virginia's Tenth Governor and the Black Community\" and newspaper article by AB.","Research materials re: the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. Newspaper article written by AB. Testimonial for Fannie Cobb Carter. Research notes. Facsimiles of photos. Transcript of interview with Araminta Miller Justice. AB's paper about the Home.","Manuscript drafts and final versions for entries in the West Virginia Encyclopedia. Materials from West Virginia Humanities Council meetings re: the format and content of the Encyclopedia","Appalachian Heritage, Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia,  Fall 1991, with article by AB in the Profiles Section on Mollie Gabe.","Musings written to friends, 1996. Clipping of \"Commentary: Capable of Thinking, Working…and Paying Her Own Bills,\" 1979, Ancella Bickley Jr.","Processor-created bibliography of Ancella Bickley's writings","Includes books written, complied, or edited by Bickley, and background research materials and drafts of manuscripts. Books Bickley wrote include: a children's book,   LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot , also titled  Lucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot  ;   …to be black in fayette  [sic];   History of the West Virginia State Teacher's Association ; and   In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for Colored Deaf and Blind . Books edited by Bickley include:  Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History ;  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman ; and   Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listing of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia .","Typed manuscripts, 1-14 parts, of 1968 oral history interview with Garrison by Bernard Cleveland, with AB notes and Post-it-Note tabs.","Draft of book introduction; correspondence; photos and negatives for book: MTG and family, Gary WV, mining, Edward O'Toole, facsimiles of photos. Facsimiles of William Garrison's obituary, letter of condolence from Agatha S. Lowe. Program for MTG celebration at Marshall. Personal notes of congratulations on book. Photograph permissions. Facsimile of deed for MTG's grandfather's property, Hollins, VA.","\"The Charleston Stage Company's Study Guide for George C. Wolfe's Adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's  Spunk \"","Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History  edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Ancella Bickley","Text and illustrations for [children's] book  Lucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot  as told to Ancella. Original illustrations by S. Ross Browne.","Manuscript for \"Papers from the Conference on West Virginia's Black History, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, September 1991\" Facsimile of a book chapter \"Negro Education and Integration.\" Facsimile of photograph of students at Weston Colored School.","Spiral bound  The Gathering .","Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia  edited by Ancella R. Bickley.","History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association  by Ancella R. Bickley; program for The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, Inc. annual banquet, 2006; research notes on  History of Negro Secondary Education in McDowell County, WV.","In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955  by Ancella Bickley.","Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman  edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen.","Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia  edited by Ancella R. Bickley. Program for Second Baptist Church in Fayetteville, 1993","Manuscript for  …to be black in fayette  written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia, and The Fayette County Black Caucus.","Permissions to publish papers in  Honoring Our Past: Procedures of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History .","Correspondence with Joe William Trotter. Research notes. Materials relating to the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History and a paper on James McHenry Jones. Trotter's syllabus for a seminar \"The Afro-American Experience.\" \"Blacks in West Virginia: A Critique of the Secondary Literature and Survey of Primary Sources\" by Joe W. Trotter.","Galley proof of the children's book,  LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot  by Ancella R Bickley, illustrated by S. Ross Browne. Handwritten list of names.","…to be black in fayette  written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia and The Fayette County Black Caucus.","Includes full plays, skits, and historical interpreter scripts depicting characters such as: Ester from the Bible; West Virginia men and women such as Molly Gabe from Braxton County; Deborah Lacks Pullum, daughter of Henrietta Lacks; and many more. Includes manuscripts for a collaboration with Maureen Crocket in writing \"Tangled Threads: a Three Act Play\" and other plays. For \"Two Saint Say,\" a play performed at the Central Florida Community College, materials include an audition announcement, program, newspaper clipping, and correspondence. Also included is a newspaper clipping and details about Bickley's winning the Florida Senior Playwright Festival contest with \"Wade in the Water.\"","Newspaper article about the play  Two Saint Say  and its performance.","\"Historical Information Re: Milly, Enslaved Black Woman on Whom the Character, OAGE, in  Toussaint Say  Is Based\" Handwritten research notes.","Manuscript for \"Wade in the Water: a Play in One Act\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Correspondence regarding performance.","Manuscripts and notes for \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Annotated text.","Program for performance of  Two Saint Say  at the Central Florida Community College, February-March, [2008] Print of online article from the  Ocala Star Banner  added by processor.","Two Saint Say  and AB typed comments","Annotated \"In the Name of Woman.\" Facsimile of pages from 1909 court docket book, County of Allegheny (PA) and court case upon which the play is based.","Correspondence with Maureen 'Bunny' Crockett and Bobbi (bjslake@comcast.net) regarding changes to the play  Tangled Threads . Typed pages with annotations regarding black history. \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.","Newspaper clipping for \"Villager's Work Winds Playwright Contest.\"\" Congratulatory email for selection of  Wade in the Water  for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Email commenting on inspiration for various plays. Lyrics for the spiritual \"Wade in the Water.\"","Scripts for historical interpreters for Deborah Lacks Pullum, Henrietta Lacks' daughter; and Henrietta Lacks. \"It Ain't Her: a One Act Play.\" Script for historical interpreter for Ona \"Oney\" Judge; Robert Smalls, 1839-1915; Callie House; and Percy Julian. Research notes on Dr. James Marion Sims and other projects. Program for WVU Honors College Symposium \"With a Torch in Their Souls: African Americans in the Civil War\"","Script for historical interpreter for Charles Hamilton Houston presented for the African-American Club, 2011; Gabriel; and Henrietta Lacks.","Research notes. Text of play \"And Further She Sayeth Naught.\" Text of play \"Heritage: an Historical Drama in Three Acts\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.","Two Saint Say: A Play in Two Acts . Auditions announcement. Correspondence regarding the production. Proposal to produce the play from the director Bobbi Jordan.","Correspondence regarding Megan Forrest, actress. Double sided card featuring photos of Ms. Forrest and a brief overview of future endeavors.","Brief plays regarding voting issues including: lack of attention to candidates and issues, campaign spending, voter assistance, pay for voting, etc. Unidentified group photograph. Handwritten dialog.","Two Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts  [performed at] Central Florida Community College, Ocala, Florida, February 29-March 1, 2008.","Submission form for  Wade in the Wate r for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Manuscript for Wade in the Water. Email update for Festival.","Manuscript for \"The Crossing,\" a play. Photocopied page regarding Mollie Gabe and her time in Braxton County.","Typed manuscript for a play  Tangled Threads .","\"On This Rock,\" a play; one annotated. Handwritten notes on \"A Last Right\" and \"A Good Christian Woman.\" Recommended edits to Bickley's writing? Short stories, \"The User\" and \"Feelin' the Heat\" by Charles Lloyd.","Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness , 1996, which includes Bickley's \"The Baby Catcher\"","Spiral bound  Two Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts  by Ancella Bickley","Research and performance notes for  Tangled Threads: A Three Act Play  by Ancella R. Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Lists of guests who read parts, 2014. Comments from readers.","Annotated  Tangled Threads , 2008.","Tangled Threads  labeled \"Work Copy\"","Tangled Threads","Annotated \"I-John,\" a play.","Table of contents for Skit of Ester, 2010. Web page re: Esther. Typed page re: Haman, Mordecai, and Esther. Chapter summaries. Typed paper about Queen Vashti. Two typewritten pages from larger document. Letter to Jerome re: return of skit manuscript. Letter to Jerome re: transmittal of skit text and masks for players. Handwritten, not AB's handwriting, notes. Three \"masks,\" made from paper fans, and for 6 characters.","Includes manuscripts and edited manuscripts for many stories and a collection of short stories,  Turn Left at the Desert  . Bickley's stories are mostly historical character studies and include themes such as faith and community. One highlight is a critical review of Bickley's short story \"Martha,\" a part of the anthology  Appalachian Love Stories  .","Manuscripts: \"Gabe,\" \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\" contents, \"Jones,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" and \"Sister Angelica.\"","Annotated story manuscripts. \"'Jones': Manuscript Submitted for Workshop, Women Writers Conference\" and reviewed by Faith [Holsart?]","Annotated manuscript for the story \"On This Rock;\" the play  Tangled Threads ; and the story \"It Ain't Her\"","Correspondence regarding writing critiques. Text of \"Mr. Adams,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" \"Gabe,\" \"Angie's Uncle Robert,\" three versions of \"Mr. Abe Jackson,\" \"The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"DoeDoe,\" \"Addie,\" \"Lesey, Who Was Black, But Comely,\" \"The Lavender Hat,\" and \"A Day in the Park.\" AB commentary on stories.","Review of \"Martha.\" Text of \"Martha.\"","Manuscripts and notes for \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Belli: 'Momma Raised Me Up Special',\" The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"Bertha,\" \"Friends,\" and \"Martha.\"","Manuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert","Manuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert: \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Hush Now, Child\"","Excerpt from a review of AB's story, [\"Martha\"], in  Appalachian Love Stories .","Short stories for  Turn Left at the Desert.","Annotated manuscript for \"Bertha,\" a short story.","Appalachian Love Stories  compiled and edited by James M. Gifford, Edwina Pendarvis; includes \"Martha\" by Ancella Bickley.","Parts of  Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal \"Snapshots\" from a Black Community.","Handwritten beginning of a story","Handwritten pieces of writing","Typewritten contents for \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\"","Typed manuscripts for various short stories.","Bickley was a prolific speaker; speeches cover a wide range of topics including faith, WV black history, black history and pride, West Virginia State College, education, black literature, and more. The majority of the speeches are typewritten.","Program for \"Mending an Era: a Slave Ship Speaks: the Wreck of the Henrietta Marie.\" Typed text, pages 6-7, of a speech (?) about slaves, Anderson Radford, Cassie Thomas Carter, and MTG's mother.","Text of 2 speeches about Alice Walker's novel  The Color Purple:  \"The Uses of Literature: 1984 \u0026 The Color Purple, Panel Discussion at the Tenth Anniversary Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,\" September, 1984; and one at Richard Bland Community College, October 7, 1985. Research notes on  The Color Purple . Research notes on Alice Walker's short stories \"1955\" and \"In Love and Trouble\"","Correspondence, schedule, lecture series program with AB's lecture on the Underground Railroad. Typed notes from Guyandotte presentation 11/9/91, and the Guyandotte Civil War Days. Program for Guyandotte Civil War Days, October 12-November 4, 1992 with listing of AB lecture \"Local Black Settlement.\" List of sources by Alan Gould, Marshall University. Invitation to present at the 1993 Civil War Days.","T he West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter , Summer 1989, which includes a speech by AB at an education in WV forum.","Annotated text of a speech by both AB and NB about their time at WVU. WVU program \"A Celebration: Integration of Sports on the WVU Campus\" Correspondence with Dana Brooks regarding participation","Article regarding speech about  The Color Purple  at the West Virginia Alliance for Women's Studies meeting. Text of paper \"Black Education in WV\" read at WVU 6/20/89 for West Virginia Day.","Text of speech about black history in West Virginia and after-dinner remarks regarding social history. Email, travel itinerary, newspaper clipping, and correspondence.","Paper about the slave ship Amistad.","Text of speech re: the Underground Railroad. Newspaper article re: decree of freedom from slavery 150 years after.","Handwritten speech to Mo So Lit Club in McDowell County regarding the history of education of blacks, April 1983. WVSC Fall Convocation program, September 8, 1983; two texts of AB's welcome.","Handwritten poem \"Scamp\" [by Paul Laurence Dunbar]. Two handwritten speeches to the WVSC student government regarding importance of citizenship and service, and the history of WVSC. Invitation to speak to the Student Government Association, April 16, 1982. Newspaper article about black newspapers. Program for the Student Government Association Annual Inauguration Dinner, April 13, 1980. Speech for the Honors Convocation, 1985. \"Remarks prepared for State Senator Marie Redd for Blk History Month-2/4/99\" regarding black history and WV black history.","Correspondence regarding invitation to speak at the West Virginia State Baptist Convention. WVSC new student orientation schedule with remarks scheduled for AB. Text of speech, 1984 and 1985, including a brief history of WVSC and Institute.","First page of WVSC Honors Convocation Speech","Program for \"Building Leadership for Educational Excellence: NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Leadership Conference, November 1-3, 1985 - Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.\" Annotated text of speech \"A Response to the New Right's Agenda for Public Education.\" Other speeches regarding education","Annotated text, some handwritten, of speech to the Mo So Lit Club, McDowell County, WV. Program for The Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club (Ma-So-Lit), 50th Anniversary, April 17, 1983. Program and text of introduction of Ethel O. Davie for the WVSC Graduate Dinner, 1984.","Program and text of speech for \"Rewriting History\" panel at the \"Premonitions and Perspectives from 1984: Has the Orwellian World Arrived?\" Wisconsin Intellectual Freedom 6th Annual Conference in Milwaukee, March 1-3, 1984. Program, including full text of AB's speech for a panel on \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion\" at the Twenty-First Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education, February 25-27, 1983. Correspondence regarding invitations to speak at these conferences.","A speech about  The Color Purple  possibly delivered at a Virginia Humanities Conference.","Text of speech for WVSC Convocation and an outline of speech to women students.","Speeches about Carter G. Woodson, WV black history, her life and experiences, and MLK Day.","Speeches about WV black history, historical research, community service, her life and experiences, importance of black organizations, her faith, black women, race, and black education. Programs from presentations at churches. Letter confirming appointment to the Danforth Associate Program.","Speeches about black education; being a role model; leadership; church missionary work; Martin Luther King, Jr.; taking control; the college experience; community service; honoring Alan Gould; Our Mount Vernons; and black history. Corresponence re: speaking at churches.","Speeches about Black History Month; civil rights; Kwanzaa; women's rights; Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Underground Railroad; MTG; The Color Purple; black culture; Alice Walker; Carter G. Woodson; and WV black history.","Slides for WV black history speech. Research materials on WV black institutions. First two pages of speech. Handwritten text on various institutions.","\"Go with God: Remembering All of Us…,\" Commencement address at MU, 1990. Photograph of unidentified black men singing in church. The program for the 1975 NCTE Spring Institutes: \"Teaching Minority Literatures at All Levels.\"","Text of speech, one annotated, about  The Color Purple  for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; handwritten notes.","Text of two speeches about black culture with notes for accompanying slides. Note from Charles Davis. Langston Hughes poem with Alex Haley autograph. [No slides in file.]","Booklet presented to AB after she made a speech for the Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington.","Correspondence with NEA re: participation in panel \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion.\" Handwritten speech on censoring literature by blacks and women in the context of the Kanawha County textbook controversy.","Background materials, correspondence, and text of speech \"Multiculturalism in West Virginia\" at the Governor's Honors Academy.","Newspaper clipping about AB Commencement address at Marshall University, 1990. \"And Further She Sayeth Naught: a Play in Three Acts\" by Maureen \"Bunny\" Crocket and Ancella Bickley. [Speech] re: education in WV.","Text of speech about Martha Toler Spencer. Outline for [speech] about black women. Handwritten text of speech in Virginia, Longwood College, about black women. Notes.","\"Go with God: Remember All of Us\" AB's commencement address at MU, 1994.","Typed text of speech for the National Education Association.","Edited paper about the mission of West Virginia State College and changes for the future.","Items not held in the WVRHC collection which were sent to the Rare Books Curator:\n \n1969/70 edition of \"The Black Student at WVU\"  \nBulletin of West Virginia State College, Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\" \nBickley, A. R., Carter, G. W. M. F. I., \u0026 Marshall University, H. W. V. D. A. (1997).  Our Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia . [Huntington, WV] : [Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation of Huntington and the Drinko Academy at Marshall University]. \nBooklet, \"History of African-American Miners in Appalachian Coal Fields: Black History Month, February, 2000\"","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the  Permissions and Copyright page  on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","West Virginia State College (Institute, W. 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She graduated from Douglass High School in 1947 and went on to attend West Virginia State College, graduating magna cum laude in 1950 with a degree in English.  She was the first full time black student at Marshall University and received her master's degree in English in 1954.  She received her Ed.D. in English from West Virginia University in 1974.  Dr. Bickley was a teacher at all educational levels and was Vice-President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College where she retired in 1986.  She continued to research, write, and speak from her retirement home in Florida where she lived with her husband Nelson.  Some of her accolades include the Mountain State Bar Association's Distinguished Citizen Award, 1978; the National Education Association's The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award, 1980; West Virginia Woman of the Year, 1984; the West Virginia State College Alumnus of the Year, 1988; and was a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar at Marshall University in 1999.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDr. Bickley was a prolific speaker and in addtion to the speeches, she authored many stories, plays, and articles.  In 1997, she published \u003ctitle\u003eOur Mount Vernons\u003c/title\u003e to identify sites significant to West Virginia black history.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWith Lynda Ann Ewen, she co-edited \u003ctitle\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman\u003c/title\u003e, published by Ohio University Press. She has written stories and articles for publications including West Virginia cultural magazine, \u003ctitle\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/title\u003e. She wrote a history of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Dr. Ancella Radford Bickley, author, historian, and educator, grew up in segregated Huntington, West Virginia, where she was born in 1930.  She graduated from Douglass High School in 1947 and went on to attend West Virginia State College, graduating magna cum laude in 1950 with a degree in English.  She was the first full time black student at Marshall University and received her master's degree in English in 1954.  She received her Ed.D. in English from West Virginia University in 1974.  Dr. Bickley was a teacher at all educational levels and was Vice-President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College where she retired in 1986.  She continued to research, write, and speak from her retirement home in Florida where she lived with her husband Nelson.  Some of her accolades include the Mountain State Bar Association's Distinguished Citizen Award, 1978; the National Education Association's The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award, 1980; West Virginia Woman of the Year, 1984; the West Virginia State College Alumnus of the Year, 1988; and was a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar at Marshall University in 1999.","Dr. Bickley was a prolific speaker and in addtion to the speeches, she authored many stories, plays, and articles.  In 1997, she published  Our Mount Vernons  to identify sites significant to West Virginia black history.","With Lynda Ann Ewen, she co-edited  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman , published by Ohio University Press. She has written stories and articles for publications including West Virginia cultural magazine,  Goldenseal . She wrote a history of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans, A\u0026amp;M 4208, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans, A\u0026M 4208, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBickley, Ancella Collection. Materials relating to African-American history including annual West Virginia Conferences on Black History, 1908-1996. 3 boxes. Ms2003-182, at the West Virginia State Archives.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMarshall University Oral History Collection, Accession Number 1973/01.0064, also includes the oral history transcripts in this collection's addendum of 2017/02/09.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Bickley, Ancella Collection. Materials relating to African-American history including annual West Virginia Conferences on Black History, 1908-1996. 3 boxes. Ms2003-182, at the West Virginia State Archives.","Marshall University Oral History Collection, Accession Number 1973/01.0064, also includes the oral history transcripts in this collection's addendum of 2017/02/09."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles.  Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles, military records, and more.  Other formats include photographs, slides, and audiocassettes. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include Dr. Bickley's writings, which include plays, speeches, and short stories as well as her historical books, articles and other publications; collected materials from Dr. Bickley's historical research on the history of African Americans in West Virginia; and personal papers. Her research materials include papers grouped sometimes by county, sometimes by individual, sometimes by subject. Subjects of her research include slavery, education, churches, biography and genealogy, literature, and more.  Specific subjects include the Underground Railroad, James McHenry Jones, genealogy, Carter G. Woodson, Mollie Gabe, West Virginia Colored Institute/West Virginia State College, John W. Davis, black high schools, school integration, and more. Counties and their cities with specific focus include Cabell, Kanawha, and Jefferson.  Some documents treating slavery and the Underground Railroad include Ohio from which Cabell County blacks, including Bickley's ancestors, migrated.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eColleagues with whom she corresponded include Judith Stitzel, Nelson Barnett, Maureen Crockett (with whom she co-wrote at least one play), and many more. Of significance is correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey; and letters and a signed photo from Alex Haley.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWritings, research background, and drafts of Dr. Bickley's works found within the collection include: \u003ctitle\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman\u003c/title\u003e, \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" (1990), \u003ctitle\u003eHonoring our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eHistory of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association\u003c/title\u003e (1979), \u003ctitle\u003eIn Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eOur Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia\u003c/title\u003e, a short story collection \"Turn Left at the Desert,\" \u003ctitle\u003e... to be black in Fayette\u003c/title\u003e, and plays: \u003ctitle\u003eTwo Saint Say\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eMother Love\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/title\u003e (with Maureen Crockett), \u003ctitle\u003eWade in the Water\u003c/title\u003e, and seven \u003ctitle\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/title\u003e articles. \nGrant applications and other documents pertaining to her work with the Humanities Council of West Virginia are included in the collection. Other documents describe her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, EcoTheater, Berea College's Black Mountain Youth Leadership program, and various professional organizations.   \nPersonal papers include material about her husband Nelson R. Bickley and his military career, diplomas, transcripts, photographs of a party she held, and more. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAddendum of 2017/02/09 (boxes 11 and 12) includes papers of Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, with a few papers of her daughter Ancella Livers. Formats include interview transcripts, correspondence, clippings, typescript writings, publications, cassettes, and more. Most of these materials are transcripts of oral histories pertaining to a collaborative project undertaken by Dr. Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson about black teachers and their memories of school integration in West Virginia in affiliation with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations used in the Contents List:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nAB - Ancella Bickley\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWVSC - West Virginia State College\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNB - Nelson Bickley\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMTG - Memphis Tennessee Garrison\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nJMJ - J. McHenry Jones\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNEA - National Education Association\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNCTE - National Council of Teachers of English\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMo So Lit Club - Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club, McDowell County, WV\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nUGRR - Underground Railroad\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMU - Marshall University\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWVU - West Virginia University\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nCGW - Carter G. Woodson\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRW-N  - Rita Wicks-Nelson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes civic and academic awards and honors, as well as academic milestones such as graduation and Bickley's dissertation. This series includes materials on the celebration of Bickley's retirement from West Virginia State College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Marshall University regarding AB's commencement address and honorary doctorate; notes of congratulations. Guest list. Photographs of AB delivering address and with others including Soupy Sales. Letter to editor regarding racism of highlighting photograph of Soupy Sales wiping a tear during AB's speech; newspaper clippings. Commencement program. AB's speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHonorary Doctorate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArmy Commendation Medal (Second Oak Leaf Cluster). AB's Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, Hampton Institute, initiation certificate, May 1976\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttendance, reading, scholarships, and other certificates from elementary through college\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAB transcript, 1951, from MU. Transcript, WVSC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards, 1980, when AB won The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Correspondence regarding the award including 2 letters from John W. Davis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph of WVSC President Thomas Cole and Ancella Bickley at her retirement; labeled \"West Virginia State College, Commencement, May 17, 1986.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaster of Arts degree confirmation from Marshall University\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoctor of Education degree confirmation from West Virginia University\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of Appreciation from the Kiwanis Club of Huntington\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote from WVU professor Armand [Singer] regarding missing retirement celebration\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping re: CGW. Photographs of AB and others after a speaking engagement in Fayette County. Service Award certificate from WVSC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Maureen Crocket to the Director of the Appalachian Festival re: Tangled Threads. Letter of recommendation from AB for Dr. Elaine Ginsberg. \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley\" by Judith Stitzel. Letter of recommendation for Dr. Bernard L. Allen for the WVU Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award. Congratulatory letter for appointment [at WVSC]. Request for letter of recommendation from Marc E. Washington at MU; confirmation of receipt of letter. Request for recommendation for Elaine Ginsberg, Trinity University; verification of receipt of letter. Letter of congratulations on retirement from George Parkinson; letter of regrets from Lawrence H. Talley, West Liberty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials re: WV NAACP Harpers Ferry NHP, 1994, including photographs and text of speech. Congratulatory letter for receiving the Distinguished West Virginian Award, 1986. Thank you for copy of Honoring Our Past, 1992. Many other letters and notes re: service and speeches. Request to speak at the New Employment for Women Information \u0026amp; Referral Center in Logan about black history. Letter from Gaston Caperton, Governor, re: appointment to the Archives and History Commission, 1991. Thank you letter for contribution to Chandler Third Base, 1992. Certificate of recognition for Outstanding Service in Support of 1993 Douglass High School Reunion. Thank you for participating in the United Way Youth Advisory Council's Youth Forum, 1993. Thank you letter re: speech at naturalized citizens ceremony from John T. Copenhaver, 1992. Certificate of appreciation and other materials including a photo re: \"Read to Me\" Day, 1999. Newspaper article re: writing about the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind and cards of congratulations. Kanawha County Schools Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, 1991.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of acknowledgement to deliver commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate at MU, 1990. Newspaper clipping and tribute to Minnie Wayne Cooper, 1989. Thank you letter to Matthew Kinsolving, Kanawha County Board of Education, for plaque, 1989. Typed text of \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley.\" Newspaper clipping and congratulatory letter re: WVSC Alumna of the Year, 1988. Letter withdrawing candidacy for the Kanawha County Board of Education, 1988. Thank you letter for receiving the Humanities Foundation Award, 1988; letter of congratulations from A. James Manchin; and Dee Caperton, House of Representatives. Letter of congratulations from Herman G. Canady, Jr., for appointment to Board of Education, 1988. Program for NAACP, Charleston Branch, Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, 1988, with AB as guest speaker. The Trumpet, West Liberty State College student newspaper, with article about AB's lecture on teaching black literature, November 28, 1973. Program, newspaper clipping, flyer, and certificate of recognition for the National Council of Jewish Women, West Virginia Section, Founder's Day, 1991. Correspondence re: speaking invitations, 1991-2001. Letters of thank you for service: The Huntington Club of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., 2001; Charleston Mayor, G. Kemp Melton, for Charleston Urban Renewal Authority, 1999; Conference program for \"New Approaches to the Humanities and Lifelong Learning,\" 1988, where AB received award. Newspaper clippings for awards and accomplishments. 1987-1988. Newspaper clipping \"Educator Grim on Blacks' Future\" 1985. Thank you letter from Dee Caperton, House of Delegates, for draft of book about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1987. Congratulatory notes, 1988-2002. Resume, ca. 1988. Text of speech for [receiving WVSC Alumna of the Year award, 1988]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, 1994-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, 1984-1995. Program for Staff Recall, Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, WV, with AB as guest speaker. Program for Induction Ceremony [sic], Phi Sigma Alpha, WVSC, 1995, when AB gave speech on the UGRR. Program for Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Third Annual Memorial Fundraiser Banquet, 1995, AB speaker. Program for MLK birthday event at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine where AB spoke, 1994. Resume. Photo of the Berlin Wall, May 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, 1984-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters and certificates, 1975-2002. Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner, 1980, when AB received The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Program for Academy Cultural Awareness Committee Black History Month Program, 2002, where AB presented about MTG. Invitation to reception for Oliver W. Hill Freedom Fighter Award of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, 1999, and invitation to recognition event at the U.S. Capitol. Program for St. Anthony Church and School Community Education Awards where AB received the Gregory Loebach Award, 2002. Text of speech and program for West Virginia's African-American Women of Distinction book introduction by the West Virginia Women's Commission, 2002. Program for The Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, AB recipient, 2002; text of speech; newspaper clipping; correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, ca. 1972-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, certificates and other recognitions, 1975 -2002. Letter of receipt for items given to the West Virginia State College/West Virginia Black Heritage Collection, 1987. Personal note, 3/26/80, discussing various contributions to education. Photograph of AB. Program for The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs banquet and candlelight rededication services, 1988, where AB was the guest speaker. Program for Berkeley County Diversity Committee \"Town Meeting\" with AB conducting interactive workshops at schools, 2002. Program and sketch of AB for [her retirement] 1986. Program for PCC lecture series \"The West Virginia Experience,\" [ca. 1985]. State of WV Teaching Certificate, 1960-1965. Letter of acceptance by NB for offer of teaching positions at WVSC for both NB and AB, 1972. Letter offering employment at WVSC as Associate Professor of English, 1972. Letter to NB offering WVSC position of Director of Guidance and Placement, 1972. Letters of thanks for AB for retirement and awards, 1986. Notification of nomination for President of WVSC, 1987. Correspondence Re: NCTE Orwell conference, 1984. Notification that tapes of censorship series of programs will be housed at the New York Public Library, 1984. Program for the Danforth Associate Program, 1975, for which AB and NB were program chairs. Program for The Women's Study Club Annual Open House, 1984, when AB was named Woman of the Year. Program for \"African Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields\" at the National Mine Health \u0026amp; Safety Academy when AB gave a lecture, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, 1989-2000. Congratulatory and thank you letters, invitations to speak, certificates of recognition, 1985-2000. Photograph of Douglass High School Y Teens, ca. 1946, including AB. Newspaper articles re: AB as WVSC's May Queen, 1948. Issue of MU's Greenline: a Publication for Alumni and Friends of Marshall University, May-July 1990, in which AB is recognized as commencement speaker; press release; letters of congratulations. Photograph of AB and others after presentation in Morgantown, 1990. Program for WVSC National Alumni Association William L. Lonesome Alumni Awards Dinner-Dance Honoring Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, Class of 1950, 1988 Alumnus of the Year. Dunbar Rotary Club Newsletter with AB as speaker, 1988. Materials from the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History, 1989. Letter to the editor of the Charleston Gazette re: black athlete, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRetirement from WVSC, 1986, materials. Correspondence re: ceremony; letters of congratulations; newspaper clippings; photographs; program; WVSC commencement program with AB as retirement honoree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAB's doctoral dissertation A Study of the Effects of Teaching a Unit on Black Culture to Classes of Predominantly White High School Students, 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings for Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, 2002. Materials pertaining to \"From Our Front Porch: Stories about Charleston's Oldest Neighborhood, The East End\": newspaper insert; outline for Appalachian Studies Association presentation; program for play at Roosevelt Wilson High School; the play. \"Testimony of Ancella Radford Bickley, Independent Scholar from West Virginia, on behalf of The State Humanities Program Regarding FY 1989 Appropriations to the National Endowment for the Humanities before the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior of the Senate,\" 1988. Congratulatory letters re: selection to the Kanawha Board of Education. Newspaper clippings. Congratulations re: speech's and performance of play in Florida. Commencement program for WVSC, 1950. Text of AB honors. Newspaper clippings re: her writings. Letter of acknowledgement for participation in reading of the names of lynchings victims program, Virginia State University, 2001. News release re: production of Harvest of Dreams by the Charleston Stage Company, 2000. Correspondence re: appointment to the WVU Board of Advisors, 1989. Certificate of appreciation from the City of Beckley for contributions to black history in WV. Thank you note re: women writers, 1994. Thank you letter from James Tolbert re: participation in Black History Month program at Harper's Ferry. Overview of AB accomplishments [introduction?]. Letter acknowledging participation in Kanawha County Public Library Black History Month events, 1993; abstract of talk; resume. Thank you letter for presentation at a Affirmative Action Committee Meeting, 1994; program; brochure listing black employees. Letter acknowledging intent to speak at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine re: unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and for MLK Day, 1993. Handwritten note of appreciation for a speech. Handwritten note re: missing speech for Black History Month, with attached newspaper clipping, 1994. 1949 Yellow Jacket article with picture of AB as newspaper staff. Clipping re: AB as keynote speaker for MLK Day celebration, 1991. Letter acknowledging a reading at the College Language Association, 1993. Letter acknowledging agreement to moderate a panel on sexual harassment; flyer for the program. Congratulatory letter for receiving the MU Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus, 1993. Program for \"First Annual Forum and Family Recognition Conference\" from the West Virginia Black Family Coalition, 1992, for which Bickley was a moderator. Correspondence and program for Distinguished Graduate Student Award from MU, 1993. Newspaper clipping about the WVSC presidential inaugural ball including description of AB and NB attire, 1974. Letter from Mary Pearl Compton, WV Delegate, re: Union's Historic District. Handwritten card praising AB as a \"liquid god\" able to move among roles, 1995. Resumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002. Certificate of recognition as a West Virginia Hero, 2002. Newspaper clippings, 1990-2002. Correspondence re: lecture at Alderson Broaddus College, 1991. Certificate of recognition from the WV National Organization of Women and two 1991 conference programs. Program for \"African-Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields,\" 2000. Letter acknowledging selection at WVSC Alumnus of the Year, 1988. The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia Award Dinner Program, 1988. Issue of People \u0026amp; Mountains: a Publication of the West Virginia Humanities Council, Summer 2001, with MTG interview excerpt edited by AB and Lynda Ann Ewen. Congratulatory note re: publication of Memphis Tennessee Garrison; lecture on MTG announcement, 2000. Letter from the Indiana Humanities Council re: placement on \"Always a River\" registry, 1991. Letter from Gov. Gaston Caperton recognizing appointment to the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission, 1989. Acknowledgement letters as a speaker, 1990-1999. Acknowledgement of receipt of Our Mount Vernons from a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1997. \"Book Notes\" section of West Virginia History re: Our Mount Vernons, 1997. Letter of re: reappointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, 1997. Letter re: WV Public Radio's Cultural Diversity Radio Project, 1998. Letter re: Mistress of Ceremony for a poetry contest at WVSC, 1995. Letter acknowledging support of the WV Humanities Council programming, 1995.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Commendation from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, for Significant Contributions to the Underground Railroad Study, 1995.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"West Virginia: a Film History\" recognition as the Historical Advisor for the film project.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eState of West Virginia Distinguished West Virginian award, 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes newspaper clippings and writings by Ancella Bickley Livers (also called Cill Jr. or Cill). Also includes material by or about Nelson Bickley, Ancella Bickley's husband and prominent Charleston, West Virginia, lawyer. Formats include articles, awards and honors, military records, speeches, research notes, publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and more. Subjects include Nelson Bickley's military and teaching careers, his uncle Carter G. Woodson, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with James Harlow, WVU President, regarding tenure at WVU, 1969 and 1972. Army records for Nelson Bickley. Various Army regulations, blank forms, and information flyers. Correspondence and forms from the Veterans Administration. Medical records, 1956-1966\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharleston Gazette/Gazette-Mail newspaper clippings about AB and NB, 1999-2003\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of NB's speech \"CMA's Link to the Late Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Negro History'\" at the Chicago Military Academy, program, and certificate of appreciation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech given by NB at East Bank High School to Junior ROTC, regarding the benefits of military service.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMilitary and scholarship commendations, program from WVSC Commencement, 1948.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMilitary records for Nelson Bickley including his assignment as an Army ROTC instructor at WVU and difficulty of finding Negro housing. Admission to WVU College of Human Resources and Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder within 16a containing Army medical records for Nelson Bickley, 1957-1966.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAkron Beacon Journal,\u003c/emph\u003e December 7, 1982, with article by Ancella Livers which includes brief biography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBrown V. Board of Education\u003c/emph\u003e in West Virginia\" by Nelson R. Bickley in the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Law Review\u003c/emph\u003e, Spring 2005.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech given by NB at the WVU Law School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Congressman Harley Staggers, James G. Harlow, President of WVU, and others regarding Nelson Bickley's retirement. Other military records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitations to the ROTC Cadet Corps Annual Military Ball and the ROTC Awards Day and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1982. Program for the ROTC Awards Day Ceremony, May 1, 1981. WVSC student newspaper \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Yellow Jacket\u003c/emph\u003e with an article about the inductees to the ROTC Hall of Fame including NB. Typed text of NB's acceptance speech about his time in the military. Newspaper with an interview with NB and Belva Clark about Carter G. Woodson, 1987. Program and text of NB speech, with AB edits, at WVSC for Veterans Day, 1992. Newspaper article regarding NB induction into the WVSC ROTC Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned letter from Alex Haley to Colonel and Mrs. Nelson Bickley, March 1, 1973, re: the Bickleys' hospitality after a lecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClippings regarding the Bickleys from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Villages Daily Sun\u003c/emph\u003e (FL) and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Sunday News-Registe\u003c/emph\u003er (Wheeling, WV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU,\" 1969/70, 1971/72, which include pictures of AB. Program for Lincoln-Douglas Banquet sponsored by Morning Star Baptist Church, February 12, 1977; includes AB as the speaker. Newspaper articles by and about Ancella Bickley, as well as Nelson. Congratulatory letter regarding AB promotion to Vice President for Administration at WVSC, July 9, 1975. Dunbar High School's publication, Kennel, Feb. 23, 1973 and May, 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regarding AB in WVU classroom. Newspaper article about Ancella, daughter of Ancella and Nelson. Dunbar High School's student newspaper, Kennel, Nov. 1972.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBachelor of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia State College\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNelson Bickley's Master of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia University\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNellie Francisco's Bachelor of Arts in Education degree confirmation from West Virginia State College, 1938\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, re: funding Joan's education. Text of the poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Invitation to the dedication of the Carter G. Wooson School, New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: Belva Clark, Carter G. Woodson's niece and Nelson Bickley's mother; note of condolence; funeral program; handwritten [by Mrs. Clark?] obituary and instructions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles about NB. Membership certificate to Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTeaching certificate for Nellie Radford Francisco, Bluefield Colored Institute, 1928.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpecial Order lists. Legal case notes? Selective Service Act of 1948 memo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes genealogical research material, notes, and charts in print as well as handwritten for these families, mostly from the Huntington, West Virginia area and across the Ohio River: Twyman, Spurlock, Barnett, Payne, Jones, Woodson, Wilson, Johnson, Summers, Smoot, Peters, Radford, Layne/Lane, Jones, Straham, Cabell, and Parker. Additional genealogical information is included in oral history interviews with individuals (see Interviews and Oral History Interviews series); the Others' Works series; the Biography subseries of Research Notes and Collected Materials; and other locations throughout the collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments pertaining to the Twyman Family. Facsimile of pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Promised Land\u003c/emph\u003e by J. Earl Pratt [1964]. Facsimile of newspaper legal notices from T\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ehe Ironton Register\u003c/emph\u003e, Oct. 27 and Dec. 15, 1870.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Willard H. Radford and Kim Radford regarding a reunion for the Radford-Bickley families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between the Bickleys and Nelson L. Barnett, Jr. regarding Allensworth (CA) State Historical Park, the Spurlock family, the Barnett-Payne-Jones family. Rededication pamphlet, October 10, 1992\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarnett family genealogy compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious documents pertaining to Carter G. Woodson and the Barnett family connection. \"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth. Barnett family documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily line charts, photographs, newspapers, family history for the Nelson Barnett line. Program for the First Baptist Church, Huntington, September 25, 1988. Photographs buildings designed by Carl Barnett, architect.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscription of Barnett family obituaries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames and Mary Wilson family genealogy. Facsimiles of portraits. Memorial service programs. Photographs of Mary Wilson Johnson and James Johnson. Photo of family group identified later in file and on facsimile. Obituary for William O. Johnson. Family group photo. Photos of Ida and William Johnson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten Cabell Family tree and notes on the Cabell Family in Institute. Transcription of letter from J. S. Cunningham to Governor A.I. Boreman. Facsimile of newspaper ad for sale of slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes regarding Summers Family and slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of book section and term paper about the Smoot Family written by Marcella L. Pauley Short for WVSC class.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet of genealogy forms. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAfrican-American Genealogy: A Research Guide\u003c/emph\u003e compiled by Phyllis Preston Jarrett and Helen Chambers Winston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten history of the Smoot Family, Boone County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonnel record for Willard Radford. Letter, 1949, certifying marriage of Willard Radford to Lilian Angus in Cuba, 1923.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten marriage records for Radfords.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes from a phone conversation regarding the Straham-Parker families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped \"Conversation with Nellie Redford Francisco--about 1985.\" Handwritten \"Discussion w/Henry Radford, 1/14/93.\" Radford Family genealogy. Peters Family genealogy. Newspaper articles regarding Negro education in Huntington and Kimball, 1904-1923. Cemetery lot receipts to Willard Radford. Program for Sterberger Elementary School 1999 Graduation Ceremony; Akil Livers listed as student. Funeral service program for Lily Van Sykes Kelly, 1994. Transcribed obituaries for Joseph T. Payne, 1948, and Minnie Bell Powell, 1936.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes on how to do black genealogy. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBlack Studies: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Layne Family Tree and Its Branches\u003c/emph\u003e. Handwritten tree with Twyman connection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Plat Map, Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, Proctorville, Ohio\" with notes. Request for donation to the Cemetery, 2013.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten CGW family tree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRadford family genealogy. Release of note on deed, Radford family, 1952.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes two subseries, General and Black Teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes more formal oral history interviews as well as \"discussions\" and other less structured interviews not intended for any historical publication. Formats include handwritten notes, typed notes, and transcripts of interviews as well as background in the form of correspondence and typed and handwritten corrections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of interview with Johnnie James. Newspaper article \"THE Man…Johnny James Now Shares Life With God\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground research re: changes to social history and oral history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from discussion with Grover DuBose, Korean War veteran, Sept. 10, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of interviews with black citizens of Huntington, WV; Institute, WV; Guyandotte, WV; and Black Fork, OH. Including Johnnie James, Ms. Bessie Herbert McClain, Chester A. Burris, Henry Pierce, Mildred Loar Williams, Cash Keels, James Thompson, Mrs. Araminta Miller Justice, and James Johnson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpiral bound notebook containing notes from oral history interviews with black soldiers, 1945-46. References to color-coded folders. Notes on soldiers' letters, 1943-45. List of themes in interviews. Follow up on specific soldiers, 2005, titled \"Negative behavior of Blk soldiers.\" Diagram of Army organization.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes labeled \"Army Wives Material: Discussion with Carl \u0026amp; Nancy Johnson Re: Military Experiences; Carl was a Tuskegee Airman. His wife, Nancy, is white\" 2014. Annotated paper \"The WV State Capitol\" with research notes. Emails re: Kimball Wall Memorial Project, 2011. Research notes. Letter to Beverly from AB re: various researchers in the Villages, FL, 2014. Typed notes from interview with Harriet Williams, Lewisburg, WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mildred Lore Williams, 1990, re: family history and Cabell County History. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Bessie Herbert McClain, 1990, re: living in Huntington. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzette Spencer, 1990, re: family and life in Huntington. Mrs. Spencer was a descendant of 37 slaves freed in the south and sent to Ohio. Transcript of oral history interview with Mr. Cash Keels, 1990, re: family history and life in Black Fork, Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudiocassettes labeled: \"Joseph C. Peters re: Black High School Athletics - 11/2/95;\" \"Gregory Peters / Reminiscences, 9/22/95, \u0026amp; Ed Scott #3;\" \"MC (Ref) Edward Greer, 5/10/06;\" and \"Ed Scott / Reminiscences /Korea, 10/20/95\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson, as Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence at Marshall University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, interviewed and recorded interviews with older black women teachers from across the state. This subseries contains transcripts of the interviews, corrected transcripts, correspondence with the subjects, and sometimes background information about them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped manuscript for \"Black Education in West Virginia,\" a joint project between Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson. Notes regarding Mrs. T. McDaniel interview; text of interview. Correspondence regarding book on black female teachers. Research notes. Text of speech about black WV schools. List of narrators. Facsimiles of newspaper clippings \"from Mrs. Rayford's Collection\" regarding desegregation of schools, 1955-1956. Newspaper clipping of AB interview regarding MTG.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes of [interview with] Marian Hatcher, WVU English Dept. teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrint out of web page re: Dr. Ancella Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson, 1999 Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence. Project name: \"Life Experiences of Older, Black, West Virginian Women [Teachers]\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDemographics of teachers' project. Map showing location of teachers. Narrative overview of the project. Paper \"Mosaic [sic] in Black and White: Black Teachers Remember School Integration in West Virginia\" [by] Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson; paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, MU, 2000. Annotated paper. Draft of paper \"Changing Lives and Potential Leadership: A Study of West Virginian Women Returning to College\" [by] Rita Wicks-Nelson, Lynda Ann Ewen, ca. 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between AB and RW-N and others re: book based on teachers' oral history interviews. Paper \"Black Education in West Virginia.\" Text of paper [by AB] \"Read @ WV Sociological Assoc. Annual Mtng. WVSC - Oct. 24, 1997.\" Letter from NB, 2005, asking for addenda to \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Law Review\u003c/emph\u003e paper about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBrown v. Board of Education. \u003c/emph\u003eResearch notes. \"\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFullen\u003c/emph\u003e corrected pp, AB,\" 2001. Letter requesting interview with Pearl Swann Carter, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelease form from Suzanne Slaughter, 1998\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, edits, research notes with RW-N. Book reviews from The Appalachian journal, 2005. List of women interviewed. Background and summaries for interviewees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: education in WV; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBrown v Board of Education. \u003c/emph\u003ePossible participants; call for participants; correspondence with participants Writing retreat brochure and correspondence. Project update to the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at MU. Draft of summary of results. Summary data forms and interview guide. Schedule of interviews. Letter from parent to teacher, Anna McCright. Flyer announcing talk by AB and RW-N. Luncheon flyer from the Fayette County Black Caucus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLife stories, some annotated or edited, for Vivian Williams Fleming, Eliza Jane Campbell Dillard, Anna McCright, and Mary Montgomery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Louise Anderson. Newspaper clipping of obituary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Bradshaw. Handwritten notes on folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOral History Review \u003c/emph\u003earticle, 2001, re: school segregation. Email with list of changes to the transcript. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Pearl Swann Carter, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Florence Casey, 1997\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ottrus Chatman, 1999. Typed and handwritten notes on the interview.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Verona Clarke, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. E. Jane Dillard, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes on the interview. Correspondence with Mrs. Elston. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary M. Elston, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Eunice Fleming, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Vivian Williams Fleming, 1997. Handwritten notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Norma Jean Fullen, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Susie Guyton, 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Willie Hise, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped and handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Floristine Holland, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. B'Alma Jones, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Miss Anna McCright, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrected transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Thelma McDaniel, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Mrs. McDaniel. Typed notes and pages from the interview. Letter from Norman L. Jones re: Thelma McDaniel and the Price and White families, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Edris Miller, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Montgomery, 1997. Overview for Mrs. Montgomery. Letter to her. Pages of the interview with corrections. List of names and addresses for interviewees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Ms. Doris Payne, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOverview for Ruby Brown Reeler. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ruby Reeler, 1997. Handwritten transcript of a quote from the interview. Handwritten notes on the folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Nancie Smith Robinson, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts pages of interview with FH [Floristine Holland?] Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzanne Slaughter, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary for Mary Crozier Snow, 2011. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Snow, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Snow with corrections, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Fannie Ashe Thomas, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Twyman, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Twyman re: corrections, 2001.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes books, manuscripts, facsimile pages, and other publications not written by Bickley, who was sometimes asked to provide feedback on writing. Forms of writing include family histories, poems, short stories, plays, novels, and both scholarly and popular articles. Other writers include: Sharon M. Draper, Charles Lloyd, Hannah N. Geffert, Peri Lynne Johnson, L. O'B. Thomson, Nelson L. Barnett, J. McHenry Jones, Judith Stitzel, Elizabeth Taylor Brown, and Phyllis Moore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Memorial to the Scott, Carter, Mumford Families and the Journey from the Hills of North Carolina to the Beautiful Ohio Shore in the Year 1844\u003c/emph\u003e by Edith Dove Bryant, original and one facsimile. Article \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" 1990.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMy Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843 \u003c/emph\u003eby Patricia Clark Bulla. Handwritten genealogy chart for James M. Laidley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoem \"Old Lady Sady and the Chicken Wings\" c1992 Sharon M. Draper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMy Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843\u003c/emph\u003e by Patricia Clark Bulla. Laidley-Summers-Quarrier family line\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAesculapius, Ebony \u003c/emph\u003eby Nelson L. Barnett, M.D.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e\"…Tryin' to Get Home…\": A Journal, \u003c/emph\u003ea compendium of biographies, family histories, community histories, etc. by the John Henry Memorial Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Search for Larry Doby\" by Bob Stitzel in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSports Collectors Digest\u003c/emph\u003e, December 1, 1989. Letter from Judith Stitzel critiquing short stories \"The Woman in the Lavender Hat,\" \"Hush Now Child,\" \"Sweets,\" and \"Jones.\" Manuscripts of Stitzel's stories \"My New York Yankees,\" \"Cover-Up,\" \"Hearing Aids,\" \"Unbecoming a Jew.\" Letter from Stitzel regarding order of stories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for book about West Virginia State College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Phyllis Moore re: WV writers. Annotated stories \"It Ain't Her!,\" \"The Crossing,\" and \"On This Rock,\" short stories by AB. Photo of AB and unidentified woman. \"'Talking about home…': Yes, We Have Authors\" by Phyllis Wilson Moore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProject overview for Greenbrier Valley African-American life. J. McHenry Jones' novel \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHearts of Gold\u003c/emph\u003e with highlighted passages and annotations. Background research materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Jones Family\u003c/emph\u003e by John L. Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Hannah N. Geffert re: Black History Conference and her annotated story \"The Guns of October.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"History of Lakin Hospital: Pulling for the Stars\" by Elizabeth Taylor Brown. Reviewers' comments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Plays of Ann Kathryn Flagg\u003c/emph\u003e published by Amistad, Inc., Ancella Bickley, Director.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Black High Schools in West Virginia\" prepared by R. Charles Byers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritings of Peri Lynne Johnson, AB's niece, some with annotations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReview of \"The History of Lakin State Hospital\" by Elizabeth Brown; manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafts and final papers written by L. O'B. Thompson who taught at WVSC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAesculapius, Ebony\u003c/emph\u003e by Nelson L. Barnett. Brief biography of Carl Eugene Barnett. Facsimile of photograph of \"Reverend Nelson Barnett, Circa 1900.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper and letter of transmittal for \"The Peters Sisters: An Historical Omission\" by Norman Jordan. Research notes on the sisters: Ethel and Ada Peters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten notes about various novels, movies, and other works. Discussion questions for some.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInscribed play \"Day to Day: a Drama in One Act\" by Maryat Lee. Article \"'…To Will One Thing: a New Look at Theater\" [by] Maryat Lee, from\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e Drama Review\u003c/emph\u003e, 1983. Materials re: EcoTheater including scholarly articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes black and white historical photographs, slides, and contemporary color photographs. Additional photographs can be found throughout the collection. Most photos are black and white facsimiles of original historical photos of people and places significant to Bickley's research and publications. Subjects include educational institution buildings and students; other institution buildings; the Radford family; Bickley and Bickley with others. The contemporary color photos include ones of the memorial statues on the West Virginia Capitol grounds; Potomac State College campus; Bickley and others; and the social event A Red Hat Party celebrating women.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos: graduating class at Bluefield State College; Barnett School Orchestra, Huntington, with Nellie Francisco; school children at Lincoln School, Wheeling, 1912; unidentified football team; buildings at Bluefield State College and West Virginia State College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos, invitation to, and follow up for a birthday celebration for AB, and a Red Hat Party to celebrate older women. Poem about AB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs of building details; street scenes; two black women [Alberta Coleman]; NB; campus, Potomac State College, buildings including Academy Hall and Duke Anthony Whitmore/Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Academic Achievement Wall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos of statues on the WV State Capitol grounds: prints, proof sheet with numbered descriptions, and a CD. Annotated text to accompany photos and titled \"Statuary on the Grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol.\" Brief history of the Capitol and the state of West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Honoring Our Past: 1994 Calendar\" produced by the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. Calendar includes photos of school bands, Bluefield NAACP chapter, Hopewell barber shop in Martinsburg, and schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies of group photographs of children and a \"Special Citation Award to Mrs. Harry Gordon\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto of unidentified family, 1901; restored photo and invoice for work, 2005.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNegatives and photos from AB's Red Hat Party\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVariety of copies of historical photographs, most not identified, 1912-1918. Note stapled to folder removed, 10/17/1990.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1991 (3), 1993, 1994 calendar \"Honoring Our Past\" from the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. 1971 Black History Calendar [by] Raymond W. Lowry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of photographs of students at WVSC including AB in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs of AB and others at a presentation on CGW at Marshall University, President's Home. February 24, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of undated photo [ca. 1942] of John W. Davis, Charles Rutherford, Austin W. Curtis, L.A. Toney, et al. On back: \"Received from Debby Jackson, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e, 4/7/1997. Picture taken during construction of Washington-Carver Camp.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto of AB with author Alice Walker at the University of Charleston, [1999]. Photo of AB with Ken Sullivan, Executive Director of the WV Humanities Council, 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes examples of Bickley's contribution to a number of public service projects both in a professional capacity and as a citizen. Includes these formats: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nplanning documents, \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\ncorrespondence, \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmeeting notes, and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nagendas for these organizations: \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-Amistad, Inc., a publishing company she formed; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-West Virginia Humanities Foundation; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program, Berea College; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-The EcoTheater in Lewisburg, for which she served as board member; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-National Council of Teachers of English, for which she was National Director; \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-West Virginia Archives and History Commission, of which she was a member; and \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n-Marshall University colloquium on black history.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMost notable are the grant applications, programs, and correspondence from her work with the West Virginia Humanities Foundation. Bickley was President of the Board of Directors and wrote a ten-year history of the organization, 1974-1984. The files include background materials for a number of projects for which she or others received grants. For her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, her files include research materials about minority student achievement, and documents about the Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAAACK). Documenting her work with an organizing committee to clean up the Bethel Cemetery in Huntington, her files include calls for participants, flyers, lists of members, and more. One civic activity with no apparent formal organization includes a meeting with Governor Rockefeller to advocate for affirmative action in West Virginia government. More on Bickley's professional and community activities can be found in the Awards, Honors Series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Notes from Meeting between WV SAC and Governor Rockefeller--June 13\" The SAC [Statistical Analysis Center] asked the governor to authorize another study concerning minority employment in West Virginia with the goal of supporting affirmative action and the employment of more minorities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHumanities Scholar Resource Forms by Virginia Edwards (2/86), Judith G Stitzel, and Elayne Rapping for the project, \"Reel Visions: A Conference on Women and Film.\" \"Seminar for Professionals Scholar's Statement\" by AB. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Midwest Quarterl\u003c/emph\u003ey article \"The Humanities in Public Conversation.\" Publication: \"The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, 1974-1984, A Decade of Discovery\" which lists awards; AB was President of the Board of Directors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrochure for the 15th Year of the EcoTheater founded by Maryat Lee, 1975-1990. Letter of support fro grant to the EcoTheater, February 10, 1990. Business correspondence with members of the Board of Directors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes, membership lists, and correspondence from meetings of the Bethel Memorial Park Interest Group. Various research notes regarding black WV doctors and other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to Ronald Reagan's inauguration\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Cecil H. Underwood and Earl Ray Tomblin regarding appointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, July 11, 2000-September 22, 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers and notes from 1975 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conferences when AB was National Director. List of attendees. Black history newspaper clippings. NCTE Spring Institutes programs: April 4-8 in Buffalo, New York; and April 25-29 in Santa Barbara, California. Paper by NB \"Mini-Psychological Theory about Black Americans\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to Jimmy Carter's inauguration, January 20, 1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of incorporation and other legal documents for Amistad, Inc. Humanities Foundation grant application. Correspondence, agendas for Board meetings, and notes from meetings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with William (Bill) Turner regarding a black history colloquium at Marshall and editing a special issue the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Journal.\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSojourner: Voice of the Eastern Kentucky Social Clubs\u003c/emph\u003e, 1989.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for MU symposium \"Moving Toward Freedom: Slavery and Resistance.\" WV Humanities Foundation grant materials for \"Fact to Freedom: The Story of Slavery in West Virginia.\" Cost details for recreating a slave auction block. Photograph of 10th and Market in Wheeling, 1895.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Brucella and Norman Jordan re: the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum. Also a Humanities Council Grant, brochures, newspaper clippings, press releases. B. Jordan's curriculum vitia and job description with an appliation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials supporting the proposal for WVSC's The Canty House being placed on the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials for collaboration of Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Achieving Excellence in Learning (AEL). Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials. Data on Kanawha County students.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReadings on teaching minority students, Ebonics. Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes and correspondence pertaining to the evaluation of the Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program at Berea College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from the Governor of Montana. Itineraries. Correspondence re: trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMatted print of D. Richardson's drawing of the WV Colored Children's Home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes eleven subseries which highlight Bickley's research on black history in West Virginia and to a smaller extent black history in general. The subseries include her work on black history for many West Virginia counties with her research being more extensive for Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have their own subseries. The subseries for Research Notes and Collected Papers are: General, Biography; Cabell County, WV; Jefferson County, WV; Kanawha County, WV; Other WV Counties; Churches, Education; General; Organizations; Slavery; and the Underground Railroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBickley researched a wide range of black history and black culture topics; for example, Aunt Jemima and the statue of a black boy as yard ornament, in addition to persons and events. The research provided background for her writings and was often incorporated into her works of fiction as well as historical accounts. Her papers include research notes and supporting sources on a wide range of topics with reference to black history and West Virginia black history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten inventory of boxes with Post-it-Note \"Found AFTER boxing - This drawer-files are out of order so I don't know if it will be helpful. (Plus, my sister has horrible handwriting.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePost card from Mabel Hunter with Storer College Brackett Hall dorm room circled (1946). Photo of statue of Carter G. Woodson. 1850 mortality statistics for western section of Virginia. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBulletin of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association\u003c/emph\u003e, 1940. Program for the Mountain State Bar Association, Inc. Annual Awards Banquet, June 18, 1988. Partial transcript of \"Interview with Doris Miller, Huntington, WV\" regarding house purported to be on the underground railroad. Marriage records, 1869, Trinity Church, Parkersburg. \"Reading the Names\" program at Virginia Sate University of those lynched, 1868-1935; AB read the WV names, ca. 2011. Handwritten research notes. Notes on census slave records. Proposed black history highway markers, 2001. Newspaper clipping about Huntington Tuskegee Airmen, 2009. Email from Brucella Jordan requesting a recommendation; paragraph regarding the founding of the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum, 2010. Email from David Trobridge invitation to speak at Marshall University, 2011. Facsimile of pages from the Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics regarding the Episcopal Church in West Virginia. Roster of Negroes serving in state and local government, ca. 1968. \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black].\" \"Slavery in Western Virginia\" (notes for an exhibit?)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and research notes regarding the black history of Gallipolis, Ohio. Love story by Harry Dolphis Scott, Bidwell, Ohio. Typed lists from Carter G. Woodson's Free Negro Head of Families (1830), Town of Gallipolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings from the Herald-Dispatch, 1981. Brochure: \"Graduates of Distinction: Michael Perry, Ancella Bickley\" from the Education Alliance, 2002\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious articles regarding blues music. Multiple facsimiles of \"Bessie Smith, 1898-1937, A Short Blues Anthology,\" 1971; one with annotations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious articles including the legend of Jocko, subject of a lawn ornament, and a 1971 black history calendar by Raymond W. Lowry which highlights achievements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003end Annual John Henry Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia: Herbs and Traditional Medicine\u003c/emph\u003e[by] Roscoe Leonard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten paper about spirituals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJournal, newspaper, and magazine articles about black history, Carter G. Woodson, Nelson Bickley, and the methyl isocyanate leak in Institute, 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eProspective Sites Relating to Black History in Canada\u003c/emph\u003e by William N. T. Wylie, June 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials regarding the holiday, Juneteenth, which celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation. Text of two speeches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Black Literary Tradition of West Virginia: A Bio-Critical Survey\" [by] Leonard J. Deutsch\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe booklet (2 copies) \"History of African-American Miners in Appalachian Coal Fields: Black History Month, February, 2000\" Funeral program for Ulysses Grant Carter, teacher at Kimball High School. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eA Saga of Service: A History of the Mining Extension Service of West Virginia State College, 1937-1957\u003c/emph\u003e by Cecile M. McCormick and U.G. Carter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of pages from reports from the WV Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and attached materials from Sara J. Sow re: blacks in Gallia County, Ohio. \"Why We Celebrate Our Culture and Church\" about churches in Lawrence County, Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with and writings of James Fisher, Berkeley County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground research notes and materials about Cuba. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNational Geographic\u003c/emph\u003e article \"Evolution in the Revolution: CUBA.\" Poems by or translated by Nelson A. Ossorio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Joan C. Browning re: content for the Henrietta Marie exhibit; white women in the civil rights movement. Biography. Resume. Newspaper clippings; article \"Invisible Revolutionaries: White Women in Civil Rights Historiography.\" Program and other materials for the WVU panel for the Rush Holt History Conference. Commentary from John Raines re: J. Browning and David Mussat's contributions to the RDH Conference; annotated JB paper \"Religion Gave Me Power to Witness\" and David Mussat's paper \"Sticks and Stone: an Interpretation of Power and Religion in the Movement.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on many aspects of WV Black history including newspaper clippings, scholarly articles, meeting programs, and the text of an Odd Fellows speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Negro Coal Miners in West Virginia, 1875-1925\" from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMidwest Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, 1954. Reprint of \"Negro Migration to the Mining Fields of West Virginia\" from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eProceedings, West Virginia Academy of Sciences\u003c/emph\u003e, 1936.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten research notes. Research materials re: WV history. Typed notes on WV black history. 1955 newspaper article re: integration of schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding black WV historical markers. Resignation as a Commissioner for the WV Division of Culture and History. Program for Roosevelt Junior High School Award Assembly, June 2, 2000; Bickley is on the program for the East End History Essay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrograms for West Virginia Conference on Black History at the First Baptist Church in Charleston, April 22-23, 1988, and the Eighth Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History at Marshall University, November 10-11, 1995\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWeb page print out of article about Silas Green in minstrel show.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Fifth U.S. Colored Infantry\" by John F. Walter, rev. 1998. Includes information on Ohio and WV blacks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Negro Participants in the Fields of the Theatre and Music Plus Associated Enterprises: Period: 1920-1960\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Booklet for The National [Negro] Opera [Company].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper titled \" School Desegregation Since \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBrown\u003c/emph\u003e (1954): 30-Year Perspective\" by Franklin Parker, WVU Professor of Education, 1984. Two pages of annotated text of a speech about education of black West Virginians, [delivered at WVU]. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDaily Athenaeum \u003c/emph\u003earticle re: interview Nelson Bickley about discrimination in housing in Morgantown, 1971. Program for \"The West Virginia Experience in Higher Education: an Historical Perspective\" at WVU, 1984, when AB was on a panel. Facsimile of the pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU\" 1971-72. Correspondence from the Ohio University Press re: manuscript review of the book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison\u003c/emph\u003e by William H. Turner, 1999. \"History of DuBois High School\" from a book. Map of slave plantations in Wood County, Va. Map of Underground Railroad routes to Canada, 1898.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmail correspondence primarily between AB and her daughter Ancella Livers re: access to WWII Soldiers' letters at the New York Public Library. Email from Della [Hardman?] re: Belle Powell and Ravella Hughes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes biographical material for many people of interested to Bickley. Types of material include correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings and articles, photographs, various facsimiles, and more. Subjects of research notes and collected materials include: Carter G. Woodson, Dick Pointer, Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, John Henry, Ravella Hughes, John Wesley Harris, Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden, Della Brown Taylor, Bessie Yancey, Mollie Gabe (Mary Elizabeth Johnson), Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, J. McHenry Jones, Stonewall Jackson, Gwen McMillion Bingham, and William Cathay. Additional topics include: blacks in WV literature; black women; Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill; and black WV legislators. Biographical information is also included in the Interviews and Oral History Interviews series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings. Partial notes [speech] J. McHenry Jones including John R. Clifford, Christopher Payne, and black legislators. Pages from a 1913 Congressional hearing on \"Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia\" with conditional pardon of Dan Chain highlighted. Memo, 1/18/03, from Alfonzo Dalton regarding interview with Ben Carson who was a Republican candidate for the US President in 2016.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to researcher Sean Duff, November 19, 2012, and attached information regarding J. McHenry Jones and Wheeling. Letter to researcher L. Morris Jones, May 3, 1989. Newspaper clipping of article about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHearts of Gold\u003c/emph\u003e which was written by J. McHenry Jones (JMJ). Various versions of \"James McHenry Jones: a Monologue\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Full and partial \"J. McHenry Jones, 1859-1909.\" Text of newspaper article about JMJ's opposition to the Evans Jim Crow Bill, February 14, 1907. Research notes including Jones family history. Facsimile of pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of the Jones Family \u003c/emph\u003eby John L. Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes on Guion Bluford (?). Ed White, sculptor, biography. Facsimile of pages from the children's book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBlack Stars in Orbit\u003c/emph\u003e, [1995]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between NB and The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Incorporated regarding preservation of the Carter G. Woodson house in Huntington. Correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey, regarding upkeep of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Dick Pointer, black Indian War hero, for an article for the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eJournal of the Greenbrier Historical Society\u003c/emph\u003e; the article; handwritten notes; various versions of the article. Research notes. Facsimile of a painting by S. Ross Browne, 1993.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Jr. Newspaper clipping: MU Commencement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Adolphus Young regarding black West Virginia women, particularly MTG.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c/emph\u003e article \"In Quest of the Historical John Henry\" by Hank Burchard, August 24, 1969. Press release by Kyle McCormick, WV Dept. of Archives and History, 1957. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWV Hillbilly\u003c/emph\u003e, June 23, 1979, \"A Salute to John Henry.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes about John Matheus, WVSC professor; his curriculum vitae, ca. 1953; reprint of an article from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eCLA Journal\u003c/emph\u003e by him, 1972.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes about Revella Hughes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes about William Hill for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e article about Tuskegee Airmen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch on John Brown including materials from the National Parks Service's John Brown Conference, 2000; an annotated Langston Hughes' poem \"October 16;\" and \"A Psychological Examination of John Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo newspaper clippings: one about Fannie Cobb Carter and one about Memphis Tennessee Garrison\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituary and other information about Major General Charles \"Jackie\" Calvin Rogers. Documents regarding the naming of a United States Army Reserve Center for him. Text of NB's speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal \u003c/emph\u003earticle about John Wesley Harris. Facsimile of newspaper clipping about Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscript of interview with AB by Ohio State University's WOSU about Della Brown Taylor [Hardman], a graduate of Garnet High School, artist, and teacher at WVSC.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes. Transcript of conversation with Bruce Rogers regarding Aunt Jemima and Bruce Family history. Facsimiles of newspaper articles regarding Aunt Jemima.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground research about the Sargent School of Physical Education; Sydney Taylor Brown who graduated from there and then WVSC; black women in the American Red Cross; and black women's service in WWII. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAmerican Legacy\u003c/emph\u003e, Winter 1999. Research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of the American Negro,\u003c/emph\u003e W.Va. Edition, vol. VII, [edited] by [A. D.] Caldwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrint outs of web pages regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. Photograph of monument in Walterboro, SC. Newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials pertaining to Carter G. Woodson including: journal and magazine articles; facsimile of book pages; newspaper clippings; and a masters degree thesis. Text of speeches and programs for speeches by both AB and NB. Invitation to a reception to honor Sen. and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in Huntington, April 20, 1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoems, correspondence, and other writings by Bessie Yancey, Carter G. Woodson's sister. Photocopies of journal articles and WV Collegiate Institute publications. Special Carter G. Woodson issue of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eCommunity, \u003c/emph\u003epublished by Friendship House, Winter 1970. Issue of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Journal of Negro History\u003c/emph\u003e, July 1968.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Mollie Gabe, also known as Mary Elizabeth Johnson, midwife from Falls Mill, Braxton County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about John P. Parker, a former slave who was active in the UGRR in Ohio. Parker was also an inventor and a business man.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, McDowell County representative to the WV House of Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Bessie W. Yancey, CGW's sister. Research materials. Poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Correspondence re: restoration of the CGW home. Carter G. Woodson Memorial Committee and Foundation materials. Text of speech by AB. CGW stamps. Dedication of statue of CGW. Correspondence re: Ann Eliza Riddle Woodson family property. CGW genealogy prepared by Nelson Barnett, Jr. Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey. Text of paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Photographs of CGW and kin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from CGW to Bessie W. Yancey, re: house in Huntington, 1941. Book contract between Bessie W. Yancey for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eEchoes in the Hills \u003c/emph\u003eand CGW's company, The Associated Publishers, 1939. Letter re: book to CGW from BWY, 1939. Letter from John W. Davis, President WVSC, to BWY, 1945, re: Nelson Bickley. Letter from BWY to Louis R. Mehlinger re: loss of two brothers, 1950. Envelope, no contents, from Joel A Rogers, 1951. Envelope, no contents, from The Associated Publishers, 1958. Photographic negative of BWY.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials including newspaper clippings, correspondence, articles, and research notes on Carter G. Woodson; Bessie W. Yancey; Black History Month; restoration of the Woodson home; and the Woodson family. Annotated copy of the paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Facscimiles of Otis Woodson and CGW photos. Photo of Bessie Woodson Yancey and letter from BWY to CGW re: poetry. Edited entry for CGW from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Encyclopedia of Black America\u003c/emph\u003e. List of WV Collegiate Institutue, 1920/21 and 1921/22. Facsimile of correspondence between CGW and BWY re: house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on J. McHenry Jones including facsimiles of obituaries; other newspaper clippings; and transcriptions of clippings. Photo of Hazlewood Assembly Hall. Notes [speech?] on JMJ. Timeline with sources. Paper about JMJ by AB. Jones family history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePages copied from book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Hidden Years of Stonewall Jackson \u003c/emph\u003epurporting that he fathered a black child. From Merle Moore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of a speech? \"African Americans in the West Virginia Legislature.\" Letter from C.A. Blankenship to \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Negro History Bulletin\u003c/emph\u003e adding names of Negroes who served in the WV Legislature, 1964. \"West Virginia's Black Female Legislators\" ca. 1991. Facsimile of photo with caption: \"President Harry S. Truman being shown a copy of America's first Black pictorial magazine. [There is some question which came first \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eColor\u003c/emph\u003e or \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eEbony]\u003c/emph\u003e Left to right: Sippi Coleman, Pres. Truman, W.VA. Congressman, Dr. I.J.K. Wells Editor and Publisher of Color,\" ca. 1948. Newspaper clipping of article re: female legislators, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of photo of \"Gabriel, Pardoned by VA Governor Tim Kaine, June 26, 2007.\" Research notes. Paper \"Major General Gwen McMillion Bingham,\" ca. 2011 with newspaper clipping. Facsimile of unidentified photograph of woman in uniform. Paper \"'Who Was William Cathay?' adapted from a piece in the St. Louis Daily Times, January 2, 1876.\" Poem \"Cathay Williams,\" 1997. Facsimile of enlarged photo of face of unidentified soldier. Summary/timeline for Cathay Williams/William Cathay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of \"Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1894-1979\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers a wide range of topics on the history of Cabell County; Huntington, WV; and adjacent Ohio counties. Notable are Nelson Barnett's transcriptions of late 19th century Huntington newspaper articles regarding blacks. Also included are newspaper clippings, monographs, photos, biographies, and interviews about veterans, church history, education, organizations, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"References and Briefs to Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles, [June 15, 1872-October 21, 1898, and June 4, 1922-May 20, 1928]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr., 1988, from Huntington newspapers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Black Veterans of World War I from Cabell County, W.Va., 1918.\" \"Past Imperfect, 1902: Articles of Interest, [Nov. 13, 1901-Dec. 31, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Past-Imperfect, 1901: Articles of Interest, [Jan. 7, 1901-May 28, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResources about blacks in Huntington and Cabell County. Includes a bibliography of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal \u003c/emph\u003earticles about blacks. Other resources are church histories, listings of names, facsimiles of book chapters and papers, newspaper clippings, interviews, handwritten research notes, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Progress of the Huntington Negro\" by Prof. J. W. Scott\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, 1976. Genealogy for Edna Duckworth. \"Biohistrogenetics Project Proposal\" to the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, 1996-1997; Duckworth is listed as the visionary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarriage records, late 19th century, Cabell County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Clara Knight. Facsimiles of Greenbottom Church, Huntington, records listing black members. Records regarding John Ball freeing his slaves, 1793. Map of Millersport, OH, 1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Bill Lindsay re: blacks in Huntington and Pocahontas County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo newspaper clippings: one about Nellie Fransisco [sic] and AB's research about blacks on the Ohio River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, [1976]. Census data for black families in Lawrence County, Ohio; 1850, 1860.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos of black workers in C\u0026amp;O shop including Anderson Radford, AB's grandfather. Correspondence; transcription of newspaper articles; research notes; biographical sketches; photos of Goodes; newspaper clippings; church histories and programs; facsimiles of book pages; transcription of interviews; and bibliography.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes. Photos. Paper \"Black People and the Huntington Experience.\" Project, \"A Sojourn for Truth: Revisiting Black History Along the Ohio River,\" overview. Research materials re: Huntington, Cabell County, and parts of Ohio. Transcript of interview with Suzette Spencer. \"The West Virginia Colored Children's Home\" by Ancella R. Bickley. \"Poke Patch/Black Fork, Ohio\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes on Douglass School. Typewritten notes on Douglass School, 1891-1924. Notes from conversation with Nellie Francisco. Handwritten transcription of article, 1902.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers research about blacks in Charlestown and Harpers Ferry as well as other locations in Jefferson County. Materials include obituaries, school histories, correspondence, cemetery records, research notes, and more about school integration, Storer College, slave collars, Fisherman's Hall, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials regarding blacks in Charlestown. Obituary for former slave George Jenkins in Huntington, 1917.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper about St. Philip's parochial school by James A. Tolbert. Materials re: Sons of Confederate Veterans tablet in Harper's Ferry. Other research materials re: Jefferson County and Charlestown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos of a slave collar. Correspondence re: acquiring the collar for the Henrietta slave ship exhibit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with James Tolbert re: black CCC camp, McDowell County; Black History Conference; Fisherman's Hall, Charlestown, restoration; Harewood Cemetery, Jefferson County; marker for Martin Delany, Charlestown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: Harpers Ferry, the National Park, and Storer College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten text of speech at Shepherd College, 2004. Transcript \"Discussion of Integration of Schools in Jefferson County: Jim Tolbert.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten research notes mostly re: John Brown and Harpers Ferry, ca. 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers research about blacks in the WV Capitol, Charleston, and other locations in Kanawha County. Topics covered include slavery in the salt industry, biographies, wine cellars, and buildings. Contents include correspondence, facsimiles of documents, research papers, obituaries, newspaper clippings and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about slavery in West Virginia with focus on Kanawha County and the salt industry\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on black attorney Thomas Gillis Nutter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Charleston, WV including: \"Unpublished Black History in the Early Kanawha Valley\" by William D. Wintz; \"Blacks in Charleston, West Virginia: A Survey of Their Presence in the Community and Occupational and Residential Patterns in the Early 1900s\" by Mary Johnson, WVU student. Research materials regarding Oscar Wayman Holmes, the first African American naval aviator and obituaries for C.H. James, prominent black businessman. Text of speech, \"Black People in Charleston,\" 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on the Dutch Hollow wine cellars in Dunbar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments regarding Samuel W. Starks and the Starks House in Charleston. Correspondence regarding its being put on the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Eugene Washington re: Phillis Wheatley School and Albert G. Brown, architect.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExcludes Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have separate subseries. Includes research materials about slavery, school integration, lynching, historic homes, and more researched by Bickley for these counties: Wayne, McDowell, Harrison, Greenbrier, Hardy, Fayette, Monongalia, Upshur, Wood, and Monroe; as well as the cities of Bluefield, Buckhannon, Keystone, Weirton, Weston, and Wheeling. Research materials include photographs, correspondence, brochures, newspaper clippings, book pages, articles, interviews, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious documents regarding blacks in Wayne County, WV; the Livisay family; writings by Tim R. Massey, 1981; the Lindsey family; photograph and negatives of a photograph of a black family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on McDowell County, WV, with focus on the towns of Keystone and Keystone. Letters and notes from Adolphus A. Young, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for \"Freedom Is a Struggle: Glimpses of African-American Life in the Greenbrier Valley of [West] Virginia.\" Brochure \"Black Historic Sites in Lewisburg, West Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping about Sarah Hall, black lawyer. Facsimiles of research materials. \"The History of the Negro in McDowell County and in West Virginia Leading Up to and Including the Integration of Schools\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Typewritten notes from Adolphus Young, Jr. Correspondence with Alphonso Dalton, Jr. regarding MTG and black McDowell County families\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of 1952 newspaper article regarding slaves listed in 1848 Harrison County tax book. Slave owners are listed and includes Nathan Goff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper, author unidentified, regarding lynching in WV. Research materials about slaves in Greenbrier County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding letter from a slave asking to be purchased by Stump family [1851]. Facsimile of letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes and resources regarding Glenwood, historic home in Charleston. Clarksburg newspaper article of reminiscences of a former slave, Ann Freeman and others. Clarksburg newspaper article regarding Union Veterans Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials for Fayette County including contacts list, newspaper articles, maps, facsimiles of pages from books, student research paper, church histories, handwritten research notes, and grant applications. Correspondence with and Lucille Meadows and her handwritten reminiscences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper articles, facsimiles of historical records. Partial manuscript for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTo Be Black in Fayette \u003c/emph\u003eand annotated pages. \"Black Politics in Fayette County, West Virginia, 1896-1918\" by Daniel Wright. Text of speech by Daniel Wright. Brochure titled \"Camp Washington-Carver: a Compendium of the First African-American 4-H Camp.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials and research notes: \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMonongalia Blacks Speak\u003c/emph\u003e: Women, Part II and Men, Part I, Holland family, schools. Interview with Grace Edwards Waters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about Weirton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about Upshur County. Facsimiles of articles written by R.H. Ralston, Sr. regarding Buckhannon's black history; newspaper clippings. \"A History of Blacks in Buckhannon: The Recollections of Harriet Warfield,\" an interview with Harriet Warfield, 1977.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials regarding blacks in Wheeling. \"Wheeling's Black Population: A General Perspective\" written and presented by Darryl Clausell, Pat Dudley, with contributors Kathryn Snead and Dorothy Cooper, 1990. Correspondence with Margaret Brennan. Photo of AB, Pat Dudley, Brennan, and Annie Tanks at an Oral History Seminar in Wheeling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding Memphis Tennessee Garrison. Research materials on Gary and other McDowell County locales: newspaper clippings, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers by Wheeling Jesuit Students Joel Michael Coulson and Beau Conway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch resources regarding blacks in Fayette County, WV, including transcripts of oral history interviews with Lucille Meadows, Mrs. Turner, Charista Davis, Lula Lall Jones, Rosa Roach and Jessie Barrett; correspondence, church histories and programs. Includes Smoot family information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of interviews with Alease Watkins, David W. Turner, Russell Lee Matthews, and Elsie Choice Hopkins. Also, includes research notes, newspaper clippings, a grant application, facsimiles of book pages, and correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto of Lomax Hospital in Bluefield. Brochures for Afro-Appalachian Performance Company. Correspondence with Joseph Bundy re: history alive performances. Research materials about black Bluefield hospitals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Ray Swick re: blacks in Wood County. Research notes. Correspondence with the Wood County Bicentennial Commission re: speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt record for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMullens v. County Court\u003c/emph\u003e, 1932. Facsimile of WV entry from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e100 Years of Lynchings\u003c/emph\u003e by Ralph Ginzburg. \"The Greenbrier County Lynching: a Study of West Virginian Justices\" by Ancella Bickley Livers. \"'Reading the Names,' Program at Virginia State University.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes re: Parkersburg black history. Facsimile of letter and transcription of letter from ex-slave Isaac Fairfax to George Washington Henderson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Charles (Charley) Goddard re: Greenbrier County history and Sharlotta Gardner contact information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of photo and negative of lynching. Photos of black children. Note from Maurice Allman, Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants. Transcripts of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWeston Democrat\u003c/emph\u003e articles re: 1892 lynching of Edgar Jones. Transcripts re: 1910 lynching. Research notes on these incidents. Application for the Weston Colored School to be placed on the National Register of Historical Places. Research notes re: Weston State Hospital. Correspondence re: dedication of the Central West Virginia Genealogical and Historical Library, formerly the Weston Colored School. Handwritten transcription of interview with Rahleen Gardner who attended the School. Transcript of conversation with Mrs. Joy Gilchrist, 1992.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of interviews with Mr. Waldo Lacy and Mrs. Gladys Lacy. Facsimile of newspaper article of speech by T.J. Ferguson, 1870. Research materials on the Sumner School. History of Parkersburg from Bernie Allen. Facsimile of books pages, newspaper articles, and transcription of newspaper articles. Parkersburg Art Center brochure featuring Joseph Eldridge Dodd. Text for slide show (no slides). Typewritten outline of \"Parkersburg Study.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of newspaper articles. Correspondence with Ray Swick, Blennerhassett Island State Park. Research materials about blacks in Wood County. Research notes. \"A History of Sumner School\" written by Sally Browning, 1996. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Island Packet\u003c/emph\u003e from the Friends of Blennerhassett Island.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground research on blacks in Monroe County. Correspondence with Fawn Valentine and Presidents of the Monroe County Historical Society. \"Bishop Matthew W. Clair, Sr.: a Biography\" by Dr. Margaret B. Ballard, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes programs, bulletins, correspondence, research notes, and histories of black West Virginia churches in Fayetteville, Charleston, Charlestown, Fairmont, St. Albans, Parkersburg, Huntington, and Alderson. Also includes a history of churches and lodges in West Virginia as well as histories of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Galilean Fisherman lodges. Denominations represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Episcopalian, and Baptist.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Lucile S. Meadows regarding help with the Second Baptist Church, Fayetteville, Centennial; racial tolerance in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"125th Anniversary Journal\" First Baptist Church, February 1, 1868-February 28, 1993, Charleston, WV\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTime line for black Episcopalians in WV. \"The First Hundred Years: a History of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Charles Town.\" Research notes and sources. Humanities Foundation of WV grant application by Florita Montgomery to study the history of St. Phillips' Episcopal Church. Information on the Trinity Church in Parkersburg. Photograph including some black congregants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1907 Weekly Bulletin of Diamond St. M.E. Church in Fairmont\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook titled \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMiracle on B Street Continues\u003c/emph\u003e about St. Paul Baptist Church's (St. Albans) 131st anniversary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter re: slide presentation at the Young Chapel African American Methodist Episcopal Church. Program for the 94th Church Anniversary. Handwritten time line and other notes. Booklet of photographs, text of Bickley's speech, newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Black Churches and Lodges in West Virginia in Their Infancy, 1865-1900\" by J. Reuben Sheeler. \"History of Bright Hope Lodge #9, F.\u0026amp;A.M. and - P.H.A. Montgomery WV.\" Facsimile of pages \"Introduction and Growth of the Grand United States Order of Odd Fellows in America.\" Notes \"Knights of Pythias of West Virginia History\" researched by James A. Tolbert. Notes about \"Grand United Order of the Galilean Fisherman\" compiled by Ann Wilson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmail correspondence with Adrienne Belafonte re: a newspaper article about the Shiloh Baptist Church in Alderson. Clipping of the article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for First Baptist Church 125th Anniversary, 1997. Program for installation of Rev. William F. Buchanan, First Baptist Church, 1988.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes newspaper clippings, text for presentations, correspondence, research notes, articles, commencement programs, interviews and more about state and national teachers' organizations, historically black WV colleges including West Virginia State College and West Virginia University, integration of schools, histories of specific schools, the Kanawha County textbook controversy, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper articles: WV Education Association (WVEA) Executive Committee meeting, the National Education Association (NEA) and the need for minority teachers; and recommendations from the Black Caucus, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWV School Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, December 15, 1973. Photograph of Blacks in auditorium seating, ca. 1950s\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMultiple facsimiles of a post card picturing Albert Long, \"Bertie\" -- Aunt Onie's Son. West Virginia State College Commencement Programs: 1948, 1950, 1951\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation sheets and travel plans for trip to Egypt, July 5, 1987, sponsored by WVSC. Passport and Visa information written on folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious versions of text for a multi-media program on the history of West Virginia State College (WVSC) and Institute, WV\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Edmonia Grider from Marjorie [Counts] regarding the Hilltop School, October 7, 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript discussing integration and black teachers in WV, author unknown. Speech (?) regarding school integration. Research notes. Annotated speech: \"Black Education in West Virginia\" delivered in Shepherdstown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on the integration of WV schools: facsimiles of WV newspaper articles regarding integration of schools; \"How Black Students Saw Themselves through the Decades of Change at Bluefield State College (founded in 1895) as It Changed from Predominately Black Institution to a Predominantly White Institution\" by James Worsham\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for the Alpha Delta Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 19th annual Jabberwock, March 16th, 1949. Dance invitation, 1948. WVSC Commencement program, 1949. Washington Alumni Chapter banquet, 1976, to roast John W. Davis. Newspaper articles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eVocational and Educational Survey for the Kanawha County Negro Schools\u003c/emph\u003e by Andrew H. Calloway, 1945.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, photos, newsletter, and newspaper clippings regarding the Douglass High School (Huntington) Reunion. Notes on class of 1947. Newspaper clipping regarding NB. Photo YWCA Y-Teens, Douglas High School, Christmas, 1946.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes on schools in Keyser and Piedmont, WV, including a facsimile of book pages from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHoward School: a History, 1877-1955\u003c/emph\u003eregarding a black student strike for a better school in 1939. Notes on interview with Alberta Coleman, Piedmont, WV. Notes from interview with Opal Coates Carter, and other research notes, regarding Woolworth Fire, Charleston, WV, [ca. 1964s].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompilation, by R. Charles Byers, of resources regarding WV black schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated pages for \"Integration in West Virginia\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBulletin of West Virginia State College\u003c/emph\u003e, Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAffirmative action statistics for Bluefield State College, 1984. \"Pride and Preservation: West Virginia State College\" seminars which included Alex Haley as a speaker, 1979. Newspaper article re: archives at West Virginia State College, 1979. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Rural Women's Network Newsletter\u003c/emph\u003e, June, 1983. Photograph of Alex Haley with inscription and signed letter from Alex Haley to NB, 1970.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes and materials for research on education in Mason County, WV\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials regarding the Lincoln School in Wheeling, WV\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia State College Bulletin\u003c/emph\u003e, April 1941, Series 28, No. 2. Handwritten transcription of an article in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Advocate\u003c/emph\u003e, 1907.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for One Hundred Fifth Commencement, Huntington High School, 1971. Photo of AB, West Virginia State College Commencement, May 17, 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eReport of the Twenty-first Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education\u003c/emph\u003e, 1983, including paper by AB on the Kanawha County textbook controversy and censorship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of a brief historical sketch of Storer College, 1867-1891, by Kate J. Anthony, 1891.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings and other sources relating to the West Virginia Seminary and College and the Hilltop Baptist Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Integration in Reverse at West Virginia State College\" by Elizabeth Duran and James A. Duran, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, interviews, newspaper clippings, and facsimiles of photos re: WVSC's East Hall. Research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWV Humanities Council grant application for a presentation on black education in Parkersburg. Research materials and notes. Handwritten and typed notes from interviews with Mrs. Dorsey, Mr. James Emondson, Mrs. Hattie Gazelle Turner, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell. Particular focus on the Sumner School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto slides of WVSC buildings, presidents, etc. Post cards of WVSC buildings and Institute. Note cards from a lecture. Research materials on all aspects of WVSC history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on many aspects of WVSC history including faculty information. Includes these publications: \"ROTC in Review: 40 Years of Tradition;\" \"West Virginia State College Glee Club;\" Alumni Association, Los Angeles Chapter, Scholarship Luncheon program, 1989;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for Convocation and Dedication of the Harold Maceo McNeill Physical Facilities Plant, WVSC, 1999.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from AB re: retirement of Justine Gutzmer; retirement announcement for Gerald Cote, Beatrice Dupass, Gutzmer, and Darthulia Jones. Facsimile of WWII death notice of Oliver Johnson to his parents and his obituary. Johnson was Gutzmer's brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet of texts and order of ceremonies for the WVSC commencement program, 1985.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes background research on the Montgomery Woman's Improvement League, the West Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Mountain State Bar Association, and the West Virginia Medical Society. Research materials include a yearbook, programs, correspondence, a members list, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMontgomery Woman's Improvement League Year Book\u003c/emph\u003e, 1955-56 and 1960-61. Program for West Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. Annual Convention, 1959. Newspaper photojournalism article regarding the College Alumni Club 50th anniversary history booklet. Program for the Annual Debutante Ball sponsored by Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1958. Correspondence with Katherine Atwater regarding resources.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for the Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet of the Mountain State Bar Association, 1985. List of members, 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper titled \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black]\" Article: \"Historically Black Medical Colleges: From Scorn to Success\" from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Boule Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, 2004.\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e \u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes maps, research papers, newspaper clippings, letters, census data, newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical slave documents, and more. Other materials regarding slavery can be found in county subseries and the Underground Railroad Subseries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWest Virginia map. \"Number of Slaves in Counties Which Became WV\" 1850, 1860. Typescript of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistorical Atlas of West Virginia \u003c/emph\u003eby Frank S. Riddel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten notes on John Marshall; Marshall and slavery; Marshall and Robin Spurlock, his servant. Typed observations. Resource materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of legislation and resolutions to abolish slavery; and a list of representatives at the state convention in Wheeling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials. Typewritten manuscript[s] by James Oliver Horton. Codes for occupations. Copy of newspaper article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping and multiple facsimiles of an article about a slave breeding farm in Greenup, KY.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about slaves in Ohio Valley plantations and adjacent WV counties. Photocopies of photographs of Mary and plantation sites.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of: newpaper slave ads; Virginia law re: Kanawha Slave Insurance Company; Dunsmore's Proclamation freeing slaves; Va. Law to send slave to Liberia; slaves in Bunker Hill; New York Times article re: slave uprising; and drawing of [Harpers Ferry]. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Afro-American materials. \"History of Gerrardstown\" in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Berkeley Journal\u003c/emph\u003e. Handwritten list of properties, including slave names, of Richard B. Washington, [1864]. Letter of transmittl and facsimile of bill of sale for slave, 18[4]5. Transcription of Rumsey-Polk letters re: slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten research notes and research materials regarding reparations for slavery; text of NB speech; typewritten notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated manuscript \"Compensatory Justice: Over Time and Between Groups\" by Renee A. Hill; text of introduction of a speech about reparations; newsapper clippings; web page print outs; articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter \u003c/emph\u003ewith articles re: slave letters. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest Virginia Then and Now \u003c/emph\u003earticle re: John Brown's letter. Research re: images of blacks in journalism. Research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of tables of free Negro listings from 1830 census. \"Researching Virginia's Slave and Free Negro Records\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimile of newspaper article, 1934, re: Mount Pisgah Church, Proctorville, OH. \"The Way It Was…\" by Betty Burcham, a history of UGRR and Mount Pisgah Church. Facsimile of will of Eliza Goode freeing Sully Smith, her husband and her slave, 1848. Facsimile of two receipts for purchase of slaves, 1852. Research notes re: Ohio slaves and fugitives to WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis subseries includes text of a speech made by Bickley, books, slides, photographs, brochures, post cards, correspondence, maps, and more. The materials focus on parts of Ohio across the river from Huntington as well as West Virginia. Some topics are quilt codes, abolitionists, runaway slaves, location of Underground Railroad sites, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about Serena Wilson and the book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos \"Trip to Doddridge County to visit Jaco Hill/cave - UGRR Site - w/Karen Nance, Sandra Moats, \u0026amp; Judy Wilinson, 6/20/01. Other research materials\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on the Underground Railroad with focus on Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrochures and post cards regarding the UGRR and the film \"Nightjohn.\" Correspondence with Margaret Brennan, organizer for the UGRR Summit in Wheeling. \"Reflections on the West Virginia UGRR Summit\" by Cathy D. Nelson; photo of AB speaking at the Summit and with Amanda Nelson and Sherry [Sowchuck].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence from Alicestyne Turley-Adams re: Underground Railroad Network Partnership.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Lucille Deberry and other research materials re: the UGRR, some in West Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR in WV counties. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eExploring a Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad\u003c/emph\u003e, 1998, 2nd ed. from the National Park Service. List of UGRR sites in WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph slides, numbered and identified. Research materials mostly about Ohio. \"Draft Proposal to Establish a National Underground Commemorative, Interpretive, and Research Center, City of Huntington, West Virginia\" 1994. Itinerary for trip to Washington to meet with Interior Dept. officials and Robert C. Byrd's staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook chapter \"In Gallia and Miegs Counties\" from \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroad\u003c/emph\u003e by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 1951. Facsimile of handwritten narrative by an abolitionist, [1892]. Facsimile of letter from R. C. Rankin re: father Rev. John Rankin, 1892. Research notes on WV runaway slaves. Facsimile of letter to Daniel ? to Cyrus Little re: UGRR, 1894. Map of UGRR, 1860. Requests for copies from the Siebert papers. More facsimiles of records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground materials on the Underground Railroad in Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials including newspaper clippings and research notes on the Underground Railroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: the Underground Railroad. Research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFacsimiles of documents pertaining to slaves in Jefferson County, VA. Itinerary for Underground Railroad tours [Ohio?]. \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Escape of Jane: a True Story of the Underground Railroad\u003c/emph\u003e by Henry Burke \u0026amp; Dick Croy. Henry Robert Burke correspondence. Brochure on Henderson Hall, Wood County. Dick Croy correspondence and resume. Newspaper articles by Burke. \"Black Cultural Sites in West Virginia\" compiled by Michael Pauley and Peter Jesus, 1990\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR. WV and county maps. Facsimile of pages from \"From the Charles River Shire, 1634-1643, to the Present Day Counties: Harrison, Doddridge, Ritchie, Wood, Pleasants and Tyler\" by Barr Wilson. Research materials on the UGRR. Research notes. \"The Anti-Slavery Movement in West Virginia,\" a speech delivered by Sandra Moats Burke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: quilts and the Underground Railroad, 2001-2011. Notes re: Eliza Farrow, 2005. Paper \"The UGRR Quilt Code\" by Leigh Fellner. Research notes; newspaper clipping; facsimile of web page and transcription of story in an email \"Secret Quilt Code on Exhibit until 10/6,\" 2012; and September 2012 issue of Underground Railroad Free Press.\" Mini-grant for UGRR quilts materials, 2013.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eUnderground Railroad: Official National Park Handbook\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes manuscripts and publications for books; plays and reenactor monologues; short stories; magazine and scholarly articles; and other forms of writing in both print and handwriting. Five subseries encompass the various genres of her writing. Also includes background and research materials for the subjects for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes research materials for topics of articles. Subjects and formats treated are: encyclopedia entries in the biographical dictionary African American Architects; drafts and final versions of entries for both people and institutions for the West Virginia Encyclopedia; drafts and final versions of articles about Molly Gabe and Carter G. Woodson for Appalachian Heritage; newspaper articles for the Charleston (WV) Gazette Mail and Village Neighbors (FL) on a number of topics including George Wesley Atkinson, 10th governor of West Virginia, but especially for Black History Month and its founder Carter G. Woodson; Goldenseal articles about a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, Jessie Moon Thomas, Edward Greer, the Charleston Women's Improvement League, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, and West Virginia's Tuskegee Airmen; contribution to a symposium on diversity and change for Appalachian youth; and a study guide for a Charleston, WV, performance of Zora Neale Hurston's Spunk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles by Ancella Bickley from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal Magazine\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding use of the Goldenseal article \"Camp War: Remembering CCC Company 3538-C\" in an online education guide by the WV State Museum.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated manuscript and research notes for Goldenseal article \"Education and Activism in Gary: a Visit with Jessie Moon Thomas.\" Correspondence with Mrs. Thomas including notes on the Froe and Moon families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIssue of the journal \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Heritage \u003c/emph\u003econtaining AB article \"Profiles: Mollie Gabe\" by Ancilla \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e[sic] \u003c/emph\u003eBickley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Remembering Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Black History'\" in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eVillage Neighbors\u003c/emph\u003e, [a publication of the Village in Florida where the Bickley's resided.] Typed notes on Carter G. Woodson. Transcription of letter from Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, including text of the poem \"If You Live in West Virginia.\" CGW black history quiz prepared for the Spicy Ladies meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped text of autobiographical musings about friendship: likens travel in the south in 1952 to the Underground Railroad travel; and includes details about the move to Morgantown in 1966.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e regarding \"Edward Greer: First Black General from West Virginia\" and potential story about 1939 black student strike in Piedmont, WV. Manuscripts for Greer article.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence and drafts of a \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e article \"Lifting as We Climb\" about the Charleston Woman's Improvement League. Research materials including facsimiles of photographs. Newspaper article about Judge Irene Berger, McDowell County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials on Carl Eugene Barnett and Robert Edward Lee Washington for entries in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAfrican American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpiral bound program for\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e A Different World: Symposium on Diversity, Change, and Appalachian Youth,\u003c/emph\u003e 2006, where Bickley was a panelist.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Heritage\u003c/emph\u003e, Summer 2008, which includes \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection\" by Ancella Bickley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Heritage\u003c/emph\u003e, Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia, 1991, which includes Bickley's \"Molly Gabe\" in the Profiles section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eGoldenseal\u003c/emph\u003e, Winter 2011, containing AB's article \"General Edward Greer: West Virginia's First Black General.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Dreck S. Wilson re: contribution to the book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBiographical Dictionary of African-American Architects, 1865-1945.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials about George Wesley Atkinson, tenth governor of WV who attended Howard University. Paper titled \"West Virginia's Tenth Governor and the Black Community\" and newspaper article by AB.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch materials re: the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. Newspaper article written by AB. Testimonial for Fannie Cobb Carter. Research notes. Facsimiles of photos. Transcript of interview with Araminta Miller Justice. AB's paper about the Home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript drafts and final versions for entries in the West Virginia Encyclopedia. Materials from West Virginia Humanities Council meetings re: the format and content of the Encyclopedia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Heritage, Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia, \u003c/emph\u003eFall 1991, with article by AB in the Profiles Section on Mollie Gabe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusings written to friends, 1996. Clipping of \"Commentary: Capable of Thinking, Working…and Paying Her Own Bills,\" 1979, Ancella Bickley Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProcessor-created bibliography of Ancella Bickley's writings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes books written, complied, or edited by Bickley, and background research materials and drafts of manuscripts. Books Bickley wrote include: a children's book, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot\u003c/emph\u003e, also titled \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot\u003c/emph\u003e ; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e …to be black in fayette\u003c/emph\u003e [sic]; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e History of the West Virginia State Teacher's Association\u003c/emph\u003e; and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for Colored Deaf and Blind\u003c/emph\u003e. Books edited by Bickley include: \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHonoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History\u003c/emph\u003e; \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman\u003c/emph\u003e; and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listing of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped manuscripts, 1-14 parts, of 1968 oral history interview with Garrison by Bernard Cleveland, with AB notes and Post-it-Note tabs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of book introduction; correspondence; photos and negatives for book: MTG and family, Gary WV, mining, Edward O'Toole, facsimiles of photos. Facsimiles of William Garrison's obituary, letter of condolence from Agatha S. Lowe. Program for MTG celebration at Marshall. Personal notes of congratulations on book. Photograph permissions. Facsimile of deed for MTG's grandfather's property, Hollins, VA.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Charleston Stage Company's Study Guide for George C. Wolfe's Adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSpunk\u003c/emph\u003e\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHonoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History\u003c/emph\u003e edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Ancella Bickley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText and illustrations for [children's] book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot\u003c/emph\u003e as told to Ancella. Original illustrations by S. Ross Browne.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \"Papers from the Conference on West Virginia's Black History, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, September 1991\" Facsimile of a book chapter \"Negro Education and Integration.\" Facsimile of photograph of students at Weston Colored School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpiral bound \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Gathering\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOur Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia\u003c/emph\u003e edited by Ancella R. Bickley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association\u003c/emph\u003e by Ancella R. Bickley; program for The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, Inc. annual banquet, 2006; research notes on \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHistory of Negro Secondary Education in McDowell County, WV.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eIn Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955\u003c/emph\u003e by Ancella Bickley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eMemphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman\u003c/emph\u003e edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOur Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia\u003c/emph\u003e edited by Ancella R. Bickley. Program for Second Baptist Church in Fayetteville, 1993\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e…to be black in fayette\u003c/emph\u003e written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia, and The Fayette County Black Caucus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePermissions to publish papers in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eHonoring Our Past: Procedures of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Joe William Trotter. Research notes. Materials relating to the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History and a paper on James McHenry Jones. Trotter's syllabus for a seminar \"The Afro-American Experience.\" \"Blacks in West Virginia: A Critique of the Secondary Literature and Survey of Primary Sources\" by Joe W. Trotter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGalley proof of the children's book, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eLuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot \u003c/emph\u003eby Ancella R Bickley, illustrated by S. Ross Browne. Handwritten list of names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e…to be black in fayette\u003c/emph\u003e written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia and The Fayette County Black Caucus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes full plays, skits, and historical interpreter scripts depicting characters such as: Ester from the Bible; West Virginia men and women such as Molly Gabe from Braxton County; Deborah Lacks Pullum, daughter of Henrietta Lacks; and many more. Includes manuscripts for a collaboration with Maureen Crocket in writing \"Tangled Threads: a Three Act Play\" and other plays. For \"Two Saint Say,\" a play performed at the Central Florida Community College, materials include an audition announcement, program, newspaper clipping, and correspondence. Also included is a newspaper clipping and details about Bickley's winning the Florida Senior Playwright Festival contest with \"Wade in the Water.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper article about the play \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say\u003c/emph\u003e and its performance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Historical Information Re: Milly, Enslaved Black Woman on Whom the Character, OAGE, in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eToussaint Say\u003c/emph\u003e Is Based\" Handwritten research notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \"Wade in the Water: a Play in One Act\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Correspondence regarding performance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscripts and notes for \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Annotated text.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for performance of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say\u003c/emph\u003e at the Central Florida Community College, February-March, [2008] Print of online article from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eOcala Star Banner\u003c/emph\u003e added by processor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say\u003c/emph\u003e and AB typed comments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated \"In the Name of Woman.\" Facsimile of pages from 1909 court docket book, County of Allegheny (PA) and court case upon which the play is based.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Maureen 'Bunny' Crockett and Bobbi (bjslake@comcast.net) regarding changes to the play \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e. Typed pages with annotations regarding black history. \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping for \"Villager's Work Winds Playwright Contest.\"\" Congratulatory email for selection of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWade in the Water\u003c/emph\u003e for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Email commenting on inspiration for various plays. Lyrics for the spiritual \"Wade in the Water.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScripts for historical interpreters for Deborah Lacks Pullum, Henrietta Lacks' daughter; and Henrietta Lacks. \"It Ain't Her: a One Act Play.\" Script for historical interpreter for Ona \"Oney\" Judge; Robert Smalls, 1839-1915; Callie House; and Percy Julian. Research notes on Dr. James Marion Sims and other projects. Program for WVU Honors College Symposium \"With a Torch in Their Souls: African Americans in the Civil War\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScript for historical interpreter for Charles Hamilton Houston presented for the African-American Club, 2011; Gabriel; and Henrietta Lacks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch notes. Text of play \"And Further She Sayeth Naught.\" Text of play \"Heritage: an Historical Drama in Three Acts\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say: A Play in Two Acts\u003c/emph\u003e. Auditions announcement. Correspondence regarding the production. Proposal to produce the play from the director Bobbi Jordan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding Megan Forrest, actress. Double sided card featuring photos of Ms. Forrest and a brief overview of future endeavors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrief plays regarding voting issues including: lack of attention to candidates and issues, campaign spending, voter assistance, pay for voting, etc. Unidentified group photograph. Handwritten dialog.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts \u003c/emph\u003e[performed at] Central Florida Community College, Ocala, Florida, February 29-March 1, 2008.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubmission form for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWade in the Wate\u003c/emph\u003er for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Manuscript for Wade in the Water. Email update for Festival.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for \"The Crossing,\" a play. Photocopied page regarding Mollie Gabe and her time in Braxton County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped manuscript for a play \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"On This Rock,\" a play; one annotated. Handwritten notes on \"A Last Right\" and \"A Good Christian Woman.\" Recommended edits to Bickley's writing? Short stories, \"The User\" and \"Feelin' the Heat\" by Charles Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTraditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness\u003c/emph\u003e, 1996, which includes Bickley's \"The Baby Catcher\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpiral bound \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTwo Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts\u003c/emph\u003e by Ancella Bickley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResearch and performance notes for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads: A Three Act Play\u003c/emph\u003e by Ancella R. Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Lists of guests who read parts, 2014. Comments from readers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e, 2008.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e labeled \"Work Copy\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated \"I-John,\" a play.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTable of contents for Skit of Ester, 2010. Web page re: Esther. Typed page re: Haman, Mordecai, and Esther. Chapter summaries. Typed paper about Queen Vashti. Two typewritten pages from larger document. Letter to Jerome re: return of skit manuscript. Letter to Jerome re: transmittal of skit text and masks for players. Handwritten, not AB's handwriting, notes. Three \"masks,\" made from paper fans, and for 6 characters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes manuscripts and edited manuscripts for many stories and a collection of short stories, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTurn Left at the Desert\u003c/emph\u003e . Bickley's stories are mostly historical character studies and include themes such as faith and community. One highlight is a critical review of Bickley's short story \"Martha,\" a part of the anthology \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Love Stories\u003c/emph\u003e .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscripts: \"Gabe,\" \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\" contents, \"Jones,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" and \"Sister Angelica.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated story manuscripts. \"'Jones': Manuscript Submitted for Workshop, Women Writers Conference\" and reviewed by Faith [Holsart?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated manuscript for the story \"On This Rock;\" the play \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTangled Threads\u003c/emph\u003e; and the story \"It Ain't Her\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding writing critiques. Text of \"Mr. Adams,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" \"Gabe,\" \"Angie's Uncle Robert,\" three versions of \"Mr. Abe Jackson,\" \"The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"DoeDoe,\" \"Addie,\" \"Lesey, Who Was Black, But Comely,\" \"The Lavender Hat,\" and \"A Day in the Park.\" AB commentary on stories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReview of \"Martha.\" Text of \"Martha.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscripts and notes for \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Belli: 'Momma Raised Me Up Special',\" The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"Bertha,\" \"Friends,\" and \"Martha.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert: \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Hush Now, Child\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExcerpt from a review of AB's story, [\"Martha\"], in \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Love Stories\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShort stories for \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTurn Left at the Desert.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated manuscript for \"Bertha,\" a short story.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eAppalachian Love Stories\u003c/emph\u003e compiled and edited by James M. Gifford, Edwina Pendarvis; includes \"Martha\" by Ancella Bickley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParts of \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTurn Left at the Desert: Verbal \"Snapshots\" from a Black Community.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten beginning of a story\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten pieces of writing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten contents for \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTyped manuscripts for various short stories.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBickley was a prolific speaker; speeches cover a wide range of topics including faith, WV black history, black history and pride, West Virginia State College, education, black literature, and more. The majority of the speeches are typewritten.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for \"Mending an Era: a Slave Ship Speaks: the Wreck of the Henrietta Marie.\" Typed text, pages 6-7, of a speech (?) about slaves, Anderson Radford, Cassie Thomas Carter, and MTG's mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of 2 speeches about Alice Walker's novel \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple: \u003c/emph\u003e\"The Uses of Literature: 1984 \u0026amp; The Color Purple, Panel Discussion at the Tenth Anniversary Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,\" September, 1984; and one at Richard Bland Community College, October 7, 1985. Research notes on \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c/emph\u003e. Research notes on Alice Walker's short stories \"1955\" and \"In Love and Trouble\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, schedule, lecture series program with AB's lecture on the Underground Railroad. Typed notes from Guyandotte presentation 11/9/91, and the Guyandotte Civil War Days. Program for Guyandotte Civil War Days, October 12-November 4, 1992 with listing of AB lecture \"Local Black Settlement.\" List of sources by Alan Gould, Marshall University. Invitation to present at the 1993 Civil War Days.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eT\u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ehe West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter\u003c/emph\u003e, Summer 1989, which includes a speech by AB at an education in WV forum.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated text of a speech by both AB and NB about their time at WVU. WVU program \"A Celebration: Integration of Sports on the WVU Campus\" Correspondence with Dana Brooks regarding participation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle regarding speech about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c/emph\u003e at the West Virginia Alliance for Women's Studies meeting. Text of paper \"Black Education in WV\" read at WVU 6/20/89 for West Virginia Day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech about black history in West Virginia and after-dinner remarks regarding social history. Email, travel itinerary, newspaper clipping, and correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaper about the slave ship Amistad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech re: the Underground Railroad. Newspaper article re: decree of freedom from slavery 150 years after.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten speech to Mo So Lit Club in McDowell County regarding the history of education of blacks, April 1983. WVSC Fall Convocation program, September 8, 1983; two texts of AB's welcome.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten poem \"Scamp\" [by Paul Laurence Dunbar]. Two handwritten speeches to the WVSC student government regarding importance of citizenship and service, and the history of WVSC. Invitation to speak to the Student Government Association, April 16, 1982. Newspaper article about black newspapers. Program for the Student Government Association Annual Inauguration Dinner, April 13, 1980. Speech for the Honors Convocation, 1985. \"Remarks prepared for State Senator Marie Redd for Blk History Month-2/4/99\" regarding black history and WV black history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence regarding invitation to speak at the West Virginia State Baptist Convention. WVSC new student orientation schedule with remarks scheduled for AB. Text of speech, 1984 and 1985, including a brief history of WVSC and Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst page of WVSC Honors Convocation Speech\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram for \"Building Leadership for Educational Excellence: NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Leadership Conference, November 1-3, 1985 - Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.\" Annotated text of speech \"A Response to the New Right's Agenda for Public Education.\" Other speeches regarding education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated text, some handwritten, of speech to the Mo So Lit Club, McDowell County, WV. Program for The Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club (Ma-So-Lit), 50th Anniversary, April 17, 1983. Program and text of introduction of Ethel O. Davie for the WVSC Graduate Dinner, 1984.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram and text of speech for \"Rewriting History\" panel at the \"Premonitions and Perspectives from 1984: Has the Orwellian World Arrived?\" Wisconsin Intellectual Freedom 6th Annual Conference in Milwaukee, March 1-3, 1984. Program, including full text of AB's speech for a panel on \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion\" at the Twenty-First Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education, February 25-27, 1983. Correspondence regarding invitations to speak at these conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA speech about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c/emph\u003e possibly delivered at a Virginia Humanities Conference.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech for WVSC Convocation and an outline of speech to women students.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches about Carter G. Woodson, WV black history, her life and experiences, and MLK Day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches about WV black history, historical research, community service, her life and experiences, importance of black organizations, her faith, black women, race, and black education. Programs from presentations at churches. Letter confirming appointment to the Danforth Associate Program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches about black education; being a role model; leadership; church missionary work; Martin Luther King, Jr.; taking control; the college experience; community service; honoring Alan Gould; Our Mount Vernons; and black history. Corresponence re: speaking at churches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeeches about Black History Month; civil rights; Kwanzaa; women's rights; Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Underground Railroad; MTG; The Color Purple; black culture; Alice Walker; Carter G. Woodson; and WV black history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSlides for WV black history speech. Research materials on WV black institutions. First two pages of speech. Handwritten text on various institutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Go with God: Remembering All of Us…,\" Commencement address at MU, 1990. Photograph of unidentified black men singing in church. The program for the 1975 NCTE Spring Institutes: \"Teaching Minority Literatures at All Levels.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech, one annotated, about \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c/emph\u003e for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; handwritten notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of two speeches about black culture with notes for accompanying slides. Note from Charles Davis. Langston Hughes poem with Alex Haley autograph. [No slides in file.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooklet presented to AB after she made a speech for the Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with NEA re: participation in panel \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion.\" Handwritten speech on censoring literature by blacks and women in the context of the Kanawha County textbook controversy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBackground materials, correspondence, and text of speech \"Multiculturalism in West Virginia\" at the Governor's Honors Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping about AB Commencement address at Marshall University, 1990. \"And Further She Sayeth Naught: a Play in Three Acts\" by Maureen \"Bunny\" Crocket and Ancella Bickley. [Speech] re: education in WV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eText of speech about Martha Toler Spencer. Outline for [speech] about black women. Handwritten text of speech in Virginia, Longwood College, about black women. 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Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles.  Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles, military records, and more.  Other formats include photographs, slides, and audiocassettes. ","Subjects include Dr. Bickley's writings, which include plays, speeches, and short stories as well as her historical books, articles and other publications; collected materials from Dr. Bickley's historical research on the history of African Americans in West Virginia; and personal papers. Her research materials include papers grouped sometimes by county, sometimes by individual, sometimes by subject. Subjects of her research include slavery, education, churches, biography and genealogy, literature, and more.  Specific subjects include the Underground Railroad, James McHenry Jones, genealogy, Carter G. Woodson, Mollie Gabe, West Virginia Colored Institute/West Virginia State College, John W. Davis, black high schools, school integration, and more. Counties and their cities with specific focus include Cabell, Kanawha, and Jefferson.  Some documents treating slavery and the Underground Railroad include Ohio from which Cabell County blacks, including Bickley's ancestors, migrated.","Colleagues with whom she corresponded include Judith Stitzel, Nelson Barnett, Maureen Crockett (with whom she co-wrote at least one play), and many more. Of significance is correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey; and letters and a signed photo from Alex Haley.  ","Writings, research background, and drafts of Dr. Bickley's works found within the collection include:  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman , \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" (1990),  Honoring our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History ,  History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association  (1979),  In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955 ,  Our Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia , a short story collection \"Turn Left at the Desert,\"  ... to be black in Fayette , and plays:  Two Saint Say ,  Mother Love ,  Tangled Threads  (with Maureen Crockett),  Wade in the Water , and seven  Goldenseal  articles. \nGrant applications and other documents pertaining to her work with the Humanities Council of West Virginia are included in the collection. Other documents describe her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, EcoTheater, Berea College's Black Mountain Youth Leadership program, and various professional organizations.   \nPersonal papers include material about her husband Nelson R. Bickley and his military career, diplomas, transcripts, photographs of a party she held, and more. ","Addendum of 2017/02/09 (boxes 11 and 12) includes papers of Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, with a few papers of her daughter Ancella Livers. Formats include interview transcripts, correspondence, clippings, typescript writings, publications, cassettes, and more. Most of these materials are transcripts of oral histories pertaining to a collaborative project undertaken by Dr. Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson about black teachers and their memories of school integration in West Virginia in affiliation with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University.","Abbreviations used in the Contents List: \nAB - Ancella Bickley \nWVSC - West Virginia State College \nNB - Nelson Bickley \nMTG - Memphis Tennessee Garrison \nJMJ - J. McHenry Jones \nNEA - National Education Association \nNCTE - National Council of Teachers of English \nMo So Lit Club - Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club, McDowell County, WV \nUGRR - Underground Railroad \nMU - Marshall University \nWVU - West Virginia University \nCGW - Carter G. Woodson \nRW-N  - Rita Wicks-Nelson","Includes civic and academic awards and honors, as well as academic milestones such as graduation and Bickley's dissertation. This series includes materials on the celebration of Bickley's retirement from West Virginia State College.","Correspondence from Marshall University regarding AB's commencement address and honorary doctorate; notes of congratulations. Guest list. Photographs of AB delivering address and with others including Soupy Sales. Letter to editor regarding racism of highlighting photograph of Soupy Sales wiping a tear during AB's speech; newspaper clippings. Commencement program. AB's speech.","Honorary Doctorate","Army Commendation Medal (Second Oak Leaf Cluster). AB's Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, Hampton Institute, initiation certificate, May 1976","Attendance, reading, scholarships, and other certificates from elementary through college","AB transcript, 1951, from MU. Transcript, WVSC.","Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards, 1980, when AB won The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Correspondence regarding the award including 2 letters from John W. Davis.","Photograph of WVSC President Thomas Cole and Ancella Bickley at her retirement; labeled \"West Virginia State College, Commencement, May 17, 1986.\"","Master of Arts degree confirmation from Marshall University","Doctor of Education degree confirmation from West Virginia University","Certificate of Appreciation from the Kiwanis Club of Huntington","Note from WVU professor Armand [Singer] regarding missing retirement celebration","Newspaper clipping re: CGW. Photographs of AB and others after a speaking engagement in Fayette County. Service Award certificate from WVSC.","Letter from Maureen Crocket to the Director of the Appalachian Festival re: Tangled Threads. Letter of recommendation from AB for Dr. Elaine Ginsberg. \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley\" by Judith Stitzel. Letter of recommendation for Dr. Bernard L. Allen for the WVU Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award. Congratulatory letter for appointment [at WVSC]. Request for letter of recommendation from Marc E. Washington at MU; confirmation of receipt of letter. Request for recommendation for Elaine Ginsberg, Trinity University; verification of receipt of letter. Letter of congratulations on retirement from George Parkinson; letter of regrets from Lawrence H. Talley, West Liberty.","Materials re: WV NAACP Harpers Ferry NHP, 1994, including photographs and text of speech. Congratulatory letter for receiving the Distinguished West Virginian Award, 1986. Thank you for copy of Honoring Our Past, 1992. Many other letters and notes re: service and speeches. Request to speak at the New Employment for Women Information \u0026 Referral Center in Logan about black history. Letter from Gaston Caperton, Governor, re: appointment to the Archives and History Commission, 1991. Thank you letter for contribution to Chandler Third Base, 1992. Certificate of recognition for Outstanding Service in Support of 1993 Douglass High School Reunion. Thank you for participating in the United Way Youth Advisory Council's Youth Forum, 1993. Thank you letter re: speech at naturalized citizens ceremony from John T. Copenhaver, 1992. Certificate of appreciation and other materials including a photo re: \"Read to Me\" Day, 1999. Newspaper article re: writing about the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind and cards of congratulations. Kanawha County Schools Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, 1991.","Letter of acknowledgement to deliver commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate at MU, 1990. Newspaper clipping and tribute to Minnie Wayne Cooper, 1989. Thank you letter to Matthew Kinsolving, Kanawha County Board of Education, for plaque, 1989. Typed text of \"Remarks Made upon the Presentation of the 1988 Humanities Award to Ancella Radford Bickley.\" Newspaper clipping and congratulatory letter re: WVSC Alumna of the Year, 1988. Letter withdrawing candidacy for the Kanawha County Board of Education, 1988. Thank you letter for receiving the Humanities Foundation Award, 1988; letter of congratulations from A. James Manchin; and Dee Caperton, House of Representatives. Letter of congratulations from Herman G. Canady, Jr., for appointment to Board of Education, 1988. Program for NAACP, Charleston Branch, Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, 1988, with AB as guest speaker. The Trumpet, West Liberty State College student newspaper, with article about AB's lecture on teaching black literature, November 28, 1973. Program, newspaper clipping, flyer, and certificate of recognition for the National Council of Jewish Women, West Virginia Section, Founder's Day, 1991. Correspondence re: speaking invitations, 1991-2001. Letters of thank you for service: The Huntington Club of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., 2001; Charleston Mayor, G. Kemp Melton, for Charleston Urban Renewal Authority, 1999; Conference program for \"New Approaches to the Humanities and Lifelong Learning,\" 1988, where AB received award. Newspaper clippings for awards and accomplishments. 1987-1988. Newspaper clipping \"Educator Grim on Blacks' Future\" 1985. Thank you letter from Dee Caperton, House of Delegates, for draft of book about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1987. Congratulatory notes, 1988-2002. Resume, ca. 1988. Text of speech for [receiving WVSC Alumna of the Year award, 1988]","Newspaper clippings, 1994-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, 1984-1995. Program for Staff Recall, Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, WV, with AB as guest speaker. Program for Induction Ceremony [sic], Phi Sigma Alpha, WVSC, 1995, when AB gave speech on the UGRR. Program for Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Third Annual Memorial Fundraiser Banquet, 1995, AB speaker. Program for MLK birthday event at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine where AB spoke, 1994. Resume. Photo of the Berlin Wall, May 1963.","Newspaper clippings, 1984-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters and certificates, 1975-2002. Program for the Fourteenth Annual NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner, 1980, when AB received The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award. Program for Academy Cultural Awareness Committee Black History Month Program, 2002, where AB presented about MTG. Invitation to reception for Oliver W. Hill Freedom Fighter Award of the Virginia State Conference NAACP, 1999, and invitation to recognition event at the U.S. Capitol. Program for St. Anthony Church and School Community Education Awards where AB received the Gregory Loebach Award, 2002. Text of speech and program for West Virginia's African-American Women of Distinction book introduction by the West Virginia Women's Commission, 2002. Program for The Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, AB recipient, 2002; text of speech; newspaper clipping; correspondence.","Newspaper clippings, ca. 1972-2002. Congratulatory and thank you letters, certificates and other recognitions, 1975 -2002. Letter of receipt for items given to the West Virginia State College/West Virginia Black Heritage Collection, 1987. Personal note, 3/26/80, discussing various contributions to education. Photograph of AB. Program for The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs banquet and candlelight rededication services, 1988, where AB was the guest speaker. Program for Berkeley County Diversity Committee \"Town Meeting\" with AB conducting interactive workshops at schools, 2002. Program and sketch of AB for [her retirement] 1986. Program for PCC lecture series \"The West Virginia Experience,\" [ca. 1985]. State of WV Teaching Certificate, 1960-1965. Letter of acceptance by NB for offer of teaching positions at WVSC for both NB and AB, 1972. Letter offering employment at WVSC as Associate Professor of English, 1972. Letter to NB offering WVSC position of Director of Guidance and Placement, 1972. Letters of thanks for AB for retirement and awards, 1986. Notification of nomination for President of WVSC, 1987. Correspondence Re: NCTE Orwell conference, 1984. Notification that tapes of censorship series of programs will be housed at the New York Public Library, 1984. Program for the Danforth Associate Program, 1975, for which AB and NB were program chairs. Program for The Women's Study Club Annual Open House, 1984, when AB was named Woman of the Year. Program for \"African Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields\" at the National Mine Health \u0026 Safety Academy when AB gave a lecture, 2000.","Newspaper clippings, 1989-2000. Congratulatory and thank you letters, invitations to speak, certificates of recognition, 1985-2000. Photograph of Douglass High School Y Teens, ca. 1946, including AB. Newspaper articles re: AB as WVSC's May Queen, 1948. Issue of MU's Greenline: a Publication for Alumni and Friends of Marshall University, May-July 1990, in which AB is recognized as commencement speaker; press release; letters of congratulations. Photograph of AB and others after presentation in Morgantown, 1990. Program for WVSC National Alumni Association William L. Lonesome Alumni Awards Dinner-Dance Honoring Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, Class of 1950, 1988 Alumnus of the Year. Dunbar Rotary Club Newsletter with AB as speaker, 1988. Materials from the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History, 1989. Letter to the editor of the Charleston Gazette re: black athlete, 1988.","Retirement from WVSC, 1986, materials. Correspondence re: ceremony; letters of congratulations; newspaper clippings; photographs; program; WVSC commencement program with AB as retirement honoree.","AB's doctoral dissertation A Study of the Effects of Teaching a Unit on Black Culture to Classes of Predominantly White High School Students, 1974.","Newspaper clippings for Education Alliance Graduates of Distinction, 2002. Materials pertaining to \"From Our Front Porch: Stories about Charleston's Oldest Neighborhood, The East End\": newspaper insert; outline for Appalachian Studies Association presentation; program for play at Roosevelt Wilson High School; the play. \"Testimony of Ancella Radford Bickley, Independent Scholar from West Virginia, on behalf of The State Humanities Program Regarding FY 1989 Appropriations to the National Endowment for the Humanities before the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior of the Senate,\" 1988. Congratulatory letters re: selection to the Kanawha Board of Education. Newspaper clippings. Congratulations re: speech's and performance of play in Florida. Commencement program for WVSC, 1950. Text of AB honors. Newspaper clippings re: her writings. Letter of acknowledgement for participation in reading of the names of lynchings victims program, Virginia State University, 2001. News release re: production of Harvest of Dreams by the Charleston Stage Company, 2000. Correspondence re: appointment to the WVU Board of Advisors, 1989. Certificate of appreciation from the City of Beckley for contributions to black history in WV. Thank you note re: women writers, 1994. Thank you letter from James Tolbert re: participation in Black History Month program at Harper's Ferry. Overview of AB accomplishments [introduction?]. Letter acknowledging participation in Kanawha County Public Library Black History Month events, 1993; abstract of talk; resume. Thank you letter for presentation at a Affirmative Action Committee Meeting, 1994; program; brochure listing black employees. Letter acknowledging intent to speak at the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine re: unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and for MLK Day, 1993. Handwritten note of appreciation for a speech. Handwritten note re: missing speech for Black History Month, with attached newspaper clipping, 1994. 1949 Yellow Jacket article with picture of AB as newspaper staff. Clipping re: AB as keynote speaker for MLK Day celebration, 1991. Letter acknowledging a reading at the College Language Association, 1993. Letter acknowledging agreement to moderate a panel on sexual harassment; flyer for the program. Congratulatory letter for receiving the MU Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus, 1993. Program for \"First Annual Forum and Family Recognition Conference\" from the West Virginia Black Family Coalition, 1992, for which Bickley was a moderator. Correspondence and program for Distinguished Graduate Student Award from MU, 1993. Newspaper clipping about the WVSC presidential inaugural ball including description of AB and NB attire, 1974. Letter from Mary Pearl Compton, WV Delegate, re: Union's Historic District. Handwritten card praising AB as a \"liquid god\" able to move among roles, 1995. Resumes.","Senate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002. Certificate of recognition as a West Virginia Hero, 2002. Newspaper clippings, 1990-2002. Correspondence re: lecture at Alderson Broaddus College, 1991. Certificate of recognition from the WV National Organization of Women and two 1991 conference programs. Program for \"African-Americans in the Appalachian Coalfields,\" 2000. Letter acknowledging selection at WVSC Alumnus of the Year, 1988. The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia Award Dinner Program, 1988. Issue of People \u0026 Mountains: a Publication of the West Virginia Humanities Council, Summer 2001, with MTG interview excerpt edited by AB and Lynda Ann Ewen. Congratulatory note re: publication of Memphis Tennessee Garrison; lecture on MTG announcement, 2000. Letter from the Indiana Humanities Council re: placement on \"Always a River\" registry, 1991. Letter from Gov. Gaston Caperton recognizing appointment to the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission, 1989. Acknowledgement letters as a speaker, 1990-1999. Acknowledgement of receipt of Our Mount Vernons from a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1997. \"Book Notes\" section of West Virginia History re: Our Mount Vernons, 1997. Letter of re: reappointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, 1997. Letter re: WV Public Radio's Cultural Diversity Radio Project, 1998. Letter re: Mistress of Ceremony for a poetry contest at WVSC, 1995. Letter acknowledging support of the WV Humanities Council programming, 1995.","Special Commendation from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, for Significant Contributions to the Underground Railroad Study, 1995.","\"West Virginia: a Film History\" recognition as the Historical Advisor for the film project.","State of West Virginia Distinguished West Virginian award, 1986.","Senate Resolution honoring AB and Lynda Ann Ewen, 2002.","Includes newspaper clippings and writings by Ancella Bickley Livers (also called Cill Jr. or Cill). Also includes material by or about Nelson Bickley, Ancella Bickley's husband and prominent Charleston, West Virginia, lawyer. Formats include articles, awards and honors, military records, speeches, research notes, publications, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and more. Subjects include Nelson Bickley's military and teaching careers, his uncle Carter G. Woodson, and more.","Correspondence with James Harlow, WVU President, regarding tenure at WVU, 1969 and 1972. Army records for Nelson Bickley. Various Army regulations, blank forms, and information flyers. Correspondence and forms from the Veterans Administration. Medical records, 1956-1966","Charleston Gazette/Gazette-Mail newspaper clippings about AB and NB, 1999-2003","Text of NB's speech \"CMA's Link to the Late Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Negro History'\" at the Chicago Military Academy, program, and certificate of appreciation.","Text of speech given by NB at East Bank High School to Junior ROTC, regarding the benefits of military service.","Military and scholarship commendations, program from WVSC Commencement, 1948.","Military records for Nelson Bickley including his assignment as an Army ROTC instructor at WVU and difficulty of finding Negro housing. Admission to WVU College of Human Resources and Education.","Folder within 16a containing Army medical records for Nelson Bickley, 1957-1966.","Akron Beacon Journal,  December 7, 1982, with article by Ancella Livers which includes brief biography.","\" Brown V. Board of Education  in West Virginia\" by Nelson R. Bickley in the  West Virginia Law Review , Spring 2005.","Text of speech given by NB at the WVU Law School","Correspondence with Congressman Harley Staggers, James G. Harlow, President of WVU, and others regarding Nelson Bickley's retirement. Other military records.","Invitations to the ROTC Cadet Corps Annual Military Ball and the ROTC Awards Day and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1982. Program for the ROTC Awards Day Ceremony, May 1, 1981. WVSC student newspaper  The Yellow Jacket  with an article about the inductees to the ROTC Hall of Fame including NB. Typed text of NB's acceptance speech about his time in the military. Newspaper with an interview with NB and Belva Clark about Carter G. Woodson, 1987. Program and text of NB speech, with AB edits, at WVSC for Veterans Day, 1992. Newspaper article regarding NB induction into the WVSC ROTC Hall of Fame.","Signed letter from Alex Haley to Colonel and Mrs. Nelson Bickley, March 1, 1973, re: the Bickleys' hospitality after a lecture.","Clippings regarding the Bickleys from  The Villages Daily Sun  (FL) and  The Sunday News-Registe r (Wheeling, WV)","Pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU,\" 1969/70, 1971/72, which include pictures of AB. Program for Lincoln-Douglas Banquet sponsored by Morning Star Baptist Church, February 12, 1977; includes AB as the speaker. Newspaper articles by and about Ancella Bickley, as well as Nelson. Congratulatory letter regarding AB promotion to Vice President for Administration at WVSC, July 9, 1975. Dunbar High School's publication, Kennel, Feb. 23, 1973 and May, 1974.","Letter regarding AB in WVU classroom. Newspaper article about Ancella, daughter of Ancella and Nelson. Dunbar High School's student newspaper, Kennel, Nov. 1972.","Bachelor of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia State College","Nelson Bickley's Master of Arts degree confirmation from West Virginia University","Nellie Francisco's Bachelor of Arts in Education degree confirmation from West Virginia State College, 1938","Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, re: funding Joan's education. Text of the poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Invitation to the dedication of the Carter G. Wooson School, New Orleans.","Research materials re: Belva Clark, Carter G. Woodson's niece and Nelson Bickley's mother; note of condolence; funeral program; handwritten [by Mrs. Clark?] obituary and instructions","Articles about NB. Membership certificate to Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.","Teaching certificate for Nellie Radford Francisco, Bluefield Colored Institute, 1928.","Special Order lists. Legal case notes? Selective Service Act of 1948 memo.","Includes genealogical research material, notes, and charts in print as well as handwritten for these families, mostly from the Huntington, West Virginia area and across the Ohio River: Twyman, Spurlock, Barnett, Payne, Jones, Woodson, Wilson, Johnson, Summers, Smoot, Peters, Radford, Layne/Lane, Jones, Straham, Cabell, and Parker. Additional genealogical information is included in oral history interviews with individuals (see Interviews and Oral History Interviews series); the Others' Works series; the Biography subseries of Research Notes and Collected Materials; and other locations throughout the collections.","Documents pertaining to the Twyman Family. Facsimile of pages from  The Promised Land  by J. Earl Pratt [1964]. Facsimile of newspaper legal notices from T he Ironton Register , Oct. 27 and Dec. 15, 1870.","Letter from Willard H. Radford and Kim Radford regarding a reunion for the Radford-Bickley families.","Correspondence between the Bickleys and Nelson L. Barnett, Jr. regarding Allensworth (CA) State Historical Park, the Spurlock family, the Barnett-Payne-Jones family. Rededication pamphlet, October 10, 1992","Barnett family genealogy compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr.","Various documents pertaining to Carter G. Woodson and the Barnett family connection. \"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth. Barnett family documents.","Family line charts, photographs, newspapers, family history for the Nelson Barnett line. Program for the First Baptist Church, Huntington, September 25, 1988. Photographs buildings designed by Carl Barnett, architect.","Transcription of Barnett family obituaries.","James and Mary Wilson family genealogy. Facsimiles of portraits. Memorial service programs. Photographs of Mary Wilson Johnson and James Johnson. Photo of family group identified later in file and on facsimile. Obituary for William O. Johnson. Family group photo. Photos of Ida and William Johnson.","Handwritten Cabell Family tree and notes on the Cabell Family in Institute. Transcription of letter from J. S. Cunningham to Governor A.I. Boreman. Facsimile of newspaper ad for sale of slave.","Handwritten notes regarding Summers Family and slaves.","Facsimile of book section and term paper about the Smoot Family written by Marcella L. Pauley Short for WVSC class.","Booklet of genealogy forms.  African-American Genealogy: A Research Guide  compiled by Phyllis Preston Jarrett and Helen Chambers Winston.","Typewritten history of the Smoot Family, Boone County.","Personnel record for Willard Radford. Letter, 1949, certifying marriage of Willard Radford to Lilian Angus in Cuba, 1923.","Handwritten marriage records for Radfords.","Handwritten notes from a phone conversation regarding the Straham-Parker families.","Typed \"Conversation with Nellie Redford Francisco--about 1985.\" Handwritten \"Discussion w/Henry Radford, 1/14/93.\" Radford Family genealogy. Peters Family genealogy. Newspaper articles regarding Negro education in Huntington and Kimball, 1904-1923. Cemetery lot receipts to Willard Radford. Program for Sterberger Elementary School 1999 Graduation Ceremony; Akil Livers listed as student. Funeral service program for Lily Van Sykes Kelly, 1994. Transcribed obituaries for Joseph T. Payne, 1948, and Minnie Bell Powell, 1936.","Research notes on how to do black genealogy.  Black Studies: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications .","The Layne Family Tree and Its Branches . Handwritten tree with Twyman connection.","\"Plat Map, Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, Proctorville, Ohio\" with notes. Request for donation to the Cemetery, 2013.","Handwritten CGW family tree.","Radford family genealogy. Release of note on deed, Radford family, 1952.","This series includes two subseries, General and Black Teachers.","Includes more formal oral history interviews as well as \"discussions\" and other less structured interviews not intended for any historical publication. Formats include handwritten notes, typed notes, and transcripts of interviews as well as background in the form of correspondence and typed and handwritten corrections.","Transcript of interview with Johnnie James. Newspaper article \"THE Man…Johnny James Now Shares Life With God\"","Background research re: changes to social history and oral history.","Notes from discussion with Grover DuBose, Korean War veteran, Sept. 10, 2000.","Transcripts of interviews with black citizens of Huntington, WV; Institute, WV; Guyandotte, WV; and Black Fork, OH. Including Johnnie James, Ms. Bessie Herbert McClain, Chester A. Burris, Henry Pierce, Mildred Loar Williams, Cash Keels, James Thompson, Mrs. Araminta Miller Justice, and James Johnson.","Spiral bound notebook containing notes from oral history interviews with black soldiers, 1945-46. References to color-coded folders. Notes on soldiers' letters, 1943-45. List of themes in interviews. Follow up on specific soldiers, 2005, titled \"Negative behavior of Blk soldiers.\" Diagram of Army organization.","Research notes labeled \"Army Wives Material: Discussion with Carl \u0026 Nancy Johnson Re: Military Experiences; Carl was a Tuskegee Airman. His wife, Nancy, is white\" 2014. Annotated paper \"The WV State Capitol\" with research notes. Emails re: Kimball Wall Memorial Project, 2011. Research notes. Letter to Beverly from AB re: various researchers in the Villages, FL, 2014. Typed notes from interview with Harriet Williams, Lewisburg, WV.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mildred Lore Williams, 1990, re: family history and Cabell County History. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Bessie Herbert McClain, 1990, re: living in Huntington. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzette Spencer, 1990, re: family and life in Huntington. Mrs. Spencer was a descendant of 37 slaves freed in the south and sent to Ohio. Transcript of oral history interview with Mr. Cash Keels, 1990, re: family history and life in Black Fork, Ohio.","Audiocassettes labeled: \"Joseph C. Peters re: Black High School Athletics - 11/2/95;\" \"Gregory Peters / Reminiscences, 9/22/95, \u0026 Ed Scott #3;\" \"MC (Ref) Edward Greer, 5/10/06;\" and \"Ed Scott / Reminiscences /Korea, 10/20/95\"","Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson, as Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence at Marshall University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, interviewed and recorded interviews with older black women teachers from across the state. This subseries contains transcripts of the interviews, corrected transcripts, correspondence with the subjects, and sometimes background information about them.","Typed manuscript for \"Black Education in West Virginia,\" a joint project between Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson. Notes regarding Mrs. T. McDaniel interview; text of interview. Correspondence regarding book on black female teachers. Research notes. Text of speech about black WV schools. List of narrators. Facsimiles of newspaper clippings \"from Mrs. Rayford's Collection\" regarding desegregation of schools, 1955-1956. Newspaper clipping of AB interview regarding MTG.","Handwritten notes of [interview with] Marian Hatcher, WVU English Dept. teacher.","Print out of web page re: Dr. Ancella Bickley and Dr. Rita Wicks-Nelson, 1999 Rockefeller Scholars-in-Residence. Project name: \"Life Experiences of Older, Black, West Virginian Women [Teachers]\"","Demographics of teachers' project. Map showing location of teachers. Narrative overview of the project. Paper \"Mosaic [sic] in Black and White: Black Teachers Remember School Integration in West Virginia\" [by] Ancella Bickley and Rita Wicks-Nelson; paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, MU, 2000. Annotated paper. Draft of paper \"Changing Lives and Potential Leadership: A Study of West Virginian Women Returning to College\" [by] Rita Wicks-Nelson, Lynda Ann Ewen, ca. 1997.","Correspondence between AB and RW-N and others re: book based on teachers' oral history interviews. Paper \"Black Education in West Virginia.\" Text of paper [by AB] \"Read @ WV Sociological Assoc. Annual Mtng. WVSC - Oct. 24, 1997.\" Letter from NB, 2005, asking for addenda to  West Virginia Law Review  paper about  Brown v. Board of Education.  Research notes. \" Fullen  corrected pp, AB,\" 2001. Letter requesting interview with Pearl Swann Carter, 2000.","Release form from Suzanne Slaughter, 1998","Correspondence, edits, research notes with RW-N. Book reviews from The Appalachian journal, 2005. List of women interviewed. Background and summaries for interviewees.","Research materials re: education in WV;  Brown v Board of Education.  Possible participants; call for participants; correspondence with participants Writing retreat brochure and correspondence. Project update to the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at MU. Draft of summary of results. Summary data forms and interview guide. Schedule of interviews. Letter from parent to teacher, Anna McCright. Flyer announcing talk by AB and RW-N. Luncheon flyer from the Fayette County Black Caucus.","Life stories, some annotated or edited, for Vivian Williams Fleming, Eliza Jane Campbell Dillard, Anna McCright, and Mary Montgomery.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Louise Anderson. Newspaper clipping of obituary.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Bradshaw. Handwritten notes on folder.","Oral History Review  article, 2001, re: school segregation. Email with list of changes to the transcript. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Pearl Swann Carter, 2001.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Florence Casey, 1997","Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ottrus Chatman, 1999. Typed and handwritten notes on the interview.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Verona Clarke, 1997.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. E. Jane Dillard, 1999.","Handwritten notes on the interview. Correspondence with Mrs. Elston. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary M. Elston, 1997.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Eunice Fleming, 1999.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Vivian Williams Fleming, 1997. Handwritten notes.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Norma Jean Fullen, 1997.","Handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Susie Guyton, 1997.","Handwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Willie Hise, 1999.","Typed and handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Floristine Holland, 1998.","Handwritten notes. Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. B'Alma Jones, 1999.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Miss Anna McCright, 1999.","Corrected transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Thelma McDaniel, 1999.","Letter to Mrs. McDaniel. Typed notes and pages from the interview. Letter from Norman L. Jones re: Thelma McDaniel and the Price and White families, 2001.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Edris Miller, 1998.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Montgomery, 1997. Overview for Mrs. Montgomery. Letter to her. Pages of the interview with corrections. List of names and addresses for interviewees.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Ms. Doris Payne, 1999.","Overview for Ruby Brown Reeler. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Ruby Reeler, 1997. Handwritten transcript of a quote from the interview. Handwritten notes on the folder.","Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Nancie Smith Robinson, 1999.","Transcripts pages of interview with FH [Floristine Holland?] Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Suzanne Slaughter, 1998.","Obituary for Mary Crozier Snow, 2011. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Mary Snow, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Snow with corrections, 2001.","Transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Fannie Ashe Thomas, 1999.","Handwritten notes. Annotated transcript of oral history interviews with Mrs. Velma Twyman, 1997. Letter to Mrs. Twyman re: corrections, 2001.","Includes books, manuscripts, facsimile pages, and other publications not written by Bickley, who was sometimes asked to provide feedback on writing. Forms of writing include family histories, poems, short stories, plays, novels, and both scholarly and popular articles. Other writers include: Sharon M. Draper, Charles Lloyd, Hannah N. Geffert, Peri Lynne Johnson, L. O'B. Thomson, Nelson L. Barnett, J. McHenry Jones, Judith Stitzel, Elizabeth Taylor Brown, and Phyllis Moore.","A Memorial to the Scott, Carter, Mumford Families and the Journey from the Hills of North Carolina to the Beautiful Ohio Shore in the Year 1844  by Edith Dove Bryant, original and one facsimile. Article \"Midwifery in West Virginia\" 1990.","My Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843  by Patricia Clark Bulla. Handwritten genealogy chart for James M. Laidley","Poem \"Old Lady Sady and the Chicken Wings\" c1992 Sharon M. Draper","My Dearest Husband: the Letters of Amacetta Laidley Summers to George W. Summers, 1842-1843  by Patricia Clark Bulla. Laidley-Summers-Quarrier family line","Manuscript for  Aesculapius, Ebony  by Nelson L. Barnett, M.D.","\"…Tryin' to Get Home…\": A Journal,  a compendium of biographies, family histories, community histories, etc. by the John Henry Memorial Committee.","\"The Search for Larry Doby\" by Bob Stitzel in  Sports Collectors Digest , December 1, 1989. Letter from Judith Stitzel critiquing short stories \"The Woman in the Lavender Hat,\" \"Hush Now Child,\" \"Sweets,\" and \"Jones.\" Manuscripts of Stitzel's stories \"My New York Yankees,\" \"Cover-Up,\" \"Hearing Aids,\" \"Unbecoming a Jew.\" Letter from Stitzel regarding order of stories.","Manuscript for book about West Virginia State College.","Correspondence with Phyllis Moore re: WV writers. Annotated stories \"It Ain't Her!,\" \"The Crossing,\" and \"On This Rock,\" short stories by AB. Photo of AB and unidentified woman. \"'Talking about home…': Yes, We Have Authors\" by Phyllis Wilson Moore.","Project overview for Greenbrier Valley African-American life. J. McHenry Jones' novel  Hearts of Gold  with highlighted passages and annotations. Background research materials.","Facsimile of  The Jones Family  by John L. Jones.","Correspondence with Hannah N. Geffert re: Black History Conference and her annotated story \"The Guns of October.\"","\"History of Lakin Hospital: Pulling for the Stars\" by Elizabeth Taylor Brown. Reviewers' comments.","The Plays of Ann Kathryn Flagg  published by Amistad, Inc., Ancella Bickley, Director.","\"Black High Schools in West Virginia\" prepared by R. Charles Byers.","Writings of Peri Lynne Johnson, AB's niece, some with annotations.","Review of \"The History of Lakin State Hospital\" by Elizabeth Brown; manuscript.","Drafts and final papers written by L. O'B. Thompson who taught at WVSC.","Aesculapius, Ebony  by Nelson L. Barnett. Brief biography of Carl Eugene Barnett. Facsimile of photograph of \"Reverend Nelson Barnett, Circa 1900.\"","Paper and letter of transmittal for \"The Peters Sisters: An Historical Omission\" by Norman Jordan. Research notes on the sisters: Ethel and Ada Peters.","Typewritten notes about various novels, movies, and other works. Discussion questions for some.","Inscribed play \"Day to Day: a Drama in One Act\" by Maryat Lee. Article \"'…To Will One Thing: a New Look at Theater\" [by] Maryat Lee, from  Drama Review , 1983. Materials re: EcoTheater including scholarly articles.","Includes black and white historical photographs, slides, and contemporary color photographs. Additional photographs can be found throughout the collection. Most photos are black and white facsimiles of original historical photos of people and places significant to Bickley's research and publications. Subjects include educational institution buildings and students; other institution buildings; the Radford family; Bickley and Bickley with others. The contemporary color photos include ones of the memorial statues on the West Virginia Capitol grounds; Potomac State College campus; Bickley and others; and the social event A Red Hat Party celebrating women.","Photos: graduating class at Bluefield State College; Barnett School Orchestra, Huntington, with Nellie Francisco; school children at Lincoln School, Wheeling, 1912; unidentified football team; buildings at Bluefield State College and West Virginia State College.","Photos, invitation to, and follow up for a birthday celebration for AB, and a Red Hat Party to celebrate older women. Poem about AB.","Photographs of building details; street scenes; two black women [Alberta Coleman]; NB; campus, Potomac State College, buildings including Academy Hall and Duke Anthony Whitmore/Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Academic Achievement Wall.","Photos of statues on the WV State Capitol grounds: prints, proof sheet with numbered descriptions, and a CD. Annotated text to accompany photos and titled \"Statuary on the Grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol.\" Brief history of the Capitol and the state of West Virginia.","\"Honoring Our Past: 1994 Calendar\" produced by the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. Calendar includes photos of school bands, Bluefield NAACP chapter, Hopewell barber shop in Martinsburg, and schools.","Copies of group photographs of children and a \"Special Citation Award to Mrs. Harry Gordon\"","Photo of unidentified family, 1901; restored photo and invoice for work, 2005.","Negatives and photos from AB's Red Hat Party","Variety of copies of historical photographs, most not identified, 1912-1918. Note stapled to folder removed, 10/17/1990.","1991 (3), 1993, 1994 calendar \"Honoring Our Past\" from the Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History. 1971 Black History Calendar [by] Raymond W. Lowry.","Facsimiles of photographs of students at WVSC including AB in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.","Photographs of AB and others at a presentation on CGW at Marshall University, President's Home. February 24, 1988.","Facsimile of undated photo [ca. 1942] of John W. Davis, Charles Rutherford, Austin W. Curtis, L.A. Toney, et al. On back: \"Received from Debby Jackson,  Goldenseal , 4/7/1997. Picture taken during construction of Washington-Carver Camp.\"","Photo of AB with author Alice Walker at the University of Charleston, [1999]. Photo of AB with Ken Sullivan, Executive Director of the WV Humanities Council, 2002.","Includes examples of Bickley's contribution to a number of public service projects both in a professional capacity and as a citizen. Includes these formats:  \nplanning documents,  \ncorrespondence,  \nmeeting notes, and  \nagendas for these organizations:  \n-Amistad, Inc., a publishing company she formed;  \n-West Virginia Humanities Foundation;  \n-Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program, Berea College;  \n-The EcoTheater in Lewisburg, for which she served as board member;  \n-National Council of Teachers of English, for which she was National Director;  \n-West Virginia Archives and History Commission, of which she was a member; and  \n-Marshall University colloquium on black history.","Most notable are the grant applications, programs, and correspondence from her work with the West Virginia Humanities Foundation. Bickley was President of the Board of Directors and wrote a ten-year history of the organization, 1974-1984. The files include background materials for a number of projects for which she or others received grants. For her work with the Kanawha County Board of Education, her files include research materials about minority student achievement, and documents about the Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAAACK). Documenting her work with an organizing committee to clean up the Bethel Cemetery in Huntington, her files include calls for participants, flyers, lists of members, and more. One civic activity with no apparent formal organization includes a meeting with Governor Rockefeller to advocate for affirmative action in West Virginia government. More on Bickley's professional and community activities can be found in the Awards, Honors Series.","\"Notes from Meeting between WV SAC and Governor Rockefeller--June 13\" The SAC [Statistical Analysis Center] asked the governor to authorize another study concerning minority employment in West Virginia with the goal of supporting affirmative action and the employment of more minorities.","Humanities Scholar Resource Forms by Virginia Edwards (2/86), Judith G Stitzel, and Elayne Rapping for the project, \"Reel Visions: A Conference on Women and Film.\" \"Seminar for Professionals Scholar's Statement\" by AB.  The Midwest Quarterl y article \"The Humanities in Public Conversation.\" Publication: \"The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, 1974-1984, A Decade of Discovery\" which lists awards; AB was President of the Board of Directors.","Brochure for the 15th Year of the EcoTheater founded by Maryat Lee, 1975-1990. Letter of support fro grant to the EcoTheater, February 10, 1990. Business correspondence with members of the Board of Directors.","Notes, membership lists, and correspondence from meetings of the Bethel Memorial Park Interest Group. Various research notes regarding black WV doctors and other topics.","Invitation to Ronald Reagan's inauguration","Correspondence from Cecil H. Underwood and Earl Ray Tomblin regarding appointment to the WV Archives and History Commission, July 11, 2000-September 22, 2000.","Papers and notes from 1975 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conferences when AB was National Director. List of attendees. Black history newspaper clippings. NCTE Spring Institutes programs: April 4-8 in Buffalo, New York; and April 25-29 in Santa Barbara, California. Paper by NB \"Mini-Psychological Theory about Black Americans\"","Invitation to Jimmy Carter's inauguration, January 20, 1977.","Certificate of incorporation and other legal documents for Amistad, Inc. Humanities Foundation grant application. Correspondence, agendas for Board meetings, and notes from meetings.","Correspondence with William (Bill) Turner regarding a black history colloquium at Marshall and editing a special issue the  Appalachian Journal. Sojourner: Voice of the Eastern Kentucky Social Clubs , 1989.","Program for MU symposium \"Moving Toward Freedom: Slavery and Resistance.\" WV Humanities Foundation grant materials for \"Fact to Freedom: The Story of Slavery in West Virginia.\" Cost details for recreating a slave auction block. Photograph of 10th and Market in Wheeling, 1895.","Correspondence with Brucella and Norman Jordan re: the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum. Also a Humanities Council Grant, brochures, newspaper clippings, press releases. B. Jordan's curriculum vitia and job description with an appliation.","Materials supporting the proposal for WVSC's The Canty House being placed on the National Register of Historic Places.","Materials for collaboration of Kanawha County Schools Minority Student Achievement Task Force and Achieving Excellence in Learning (AEL). Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials. Data on Kanawha County students.","Readings on teaching minority students, Ebonics. Maximizing Achievement of African-American Children in Kanawha County (MAACK) materials.","Notes and correspondence pertaining to the evaluation of the Black Mountain Youth Leadership Program at Berea College.","Letter from the Governor of Montana. Itineraries. Correspondence re: trip.","Matted print of D. Richardson's drawing of the WV Colored Children's Home.","This series includes eleven subseries which highlight Bickley's research on black history in West Virginia and to a smaller extent black history in general. The subseries include her work on black history for many West Virginia counties with her research being more extensive for Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have their own subseries. The subseries for Research Notes and Collected Papers are: General, Biography; Cabell County, WV; Jefferson County, WV; Kanawha County, WV; Other WV Counties; Churches, Education; General; Organizations; Slavery; and the Underground Railroad.","Bickley researched a wide range of black history and black culture topics; for example, Aunt Jemima and the statue of a black boy as yard ornament, in addition to persons and events. The research provided background for her writings and was often incorporated into her works of fiction as well as historical accounts. Her papers include research notes and supporting sources on a wide range of topics with reference to black history and West Virginia black history.","Handwritten inventory of boxes with Post-it-Note \"Found AFTER boxing - This drawer-files are out of order so I don't know if it will be helpful. (Plus, my sister has horrible handwriting.\"","Post card from Mabel Hunter with Storer College Brackett Hall dorm room circled (1946). Photo of statue of Carter G. Woodson. 1850 mortality statistics for western section of Virginia.  Bulletin of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association , 1940. Program for the Mountain State Bar Association, Inc. Annual Awards Banquet, June 18, 1988. Partial transcript of \"Interview with Doris Miller, Huntington, WV\" regarding house purported to be on the underground railroad. Marriage records, 1869, Trinity Church, Parkersburg. \"Reading the Names\" program at Virginia Sate University of those lynched, 1868-1935; AB read the WV names, ca. 2011. Handwritten research notes. Notes on census slave records. Proposed black history highway markers, 2001. Newspaper clipping about Huntington Tuskegee Airmen, 2009. Email from Brucella Jordan requesting a recommendation; paragraph regarding the founding of the African American Heritage Family Tree Museum, 2010. Email from David Trobridge invitation to speak at Marshall University, 2011. Facsimile of pages from the Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics regarding the Episcopal Church in West Virginia. Roster of Negroes serving in state and local government, ca. 1968. \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black].\" \"Slavery in Western Virginia\" (notes for an exhibit?)","Correspondence and research notes regarding the black history of Gallipolis, Ohio. Love story by Harry Dolphis Scott, Bidwell, Ohio. Typed lists from Carter G. Woodson's Free Negro Head of Families (1830), Town of Gallipolis.","Newspaper clippings from the Herald-Dispatch, 1981. Brochure: \"Graduates of Distinction: Michael Perry, Ancella Bickley\" from the Education Alliance, 2002","Various articles regarding blues music. Multiple facsimiles of \"Bessie Smith, 1898-1937, A Short Blues Anthology,\" 1971; one with annotations.","Various articles including the legend of Jocko, subject of a lawn ornament, and a 1971 black history calendar by Raymond W. Lowry which highlights achievements.","2 nd Annual John Henry Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia: Herbs and Traditional Medicine [by] Roscoe Leonard.","Typewritten paper about spirituals","Journal, newspaper, and magazine articles about black history, Carter G. Woodson, Nelson Bickley, and the methyl isocyanate leak in Institute, 1984.","Prospective Sites Relating to Black History in Canada  by William N. T. Wylie, June 1994.","Research materials regarding the holiday, Juneteenth, which celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation. Text of two speeches.","\"The Black Literary Tradition of West Virginia: A Bio-Critical Survey\" [by] Leonard J. Deutsch","The booklet (2 copies) \"History of African-American Miners in Appalachian Coal Fields: Black History Month, February, 2000\" Funeral program for Ulysses Grant Carter, teacher at Kimball High School.  A Saga of Service: A History of the Mining Extension Service of West Virginia State College, 1937-1957  by Cecile M. McCormick and U.G. Carter.","Facsimiles of pages from reports from the WV Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics.","Correspondence and attached materials from Sara J. Sow re: blacks in Gallia County, Ohio. \"Why We Celebrate Our Culture and Church\" about churches in Lawrence County, Ohio.","Correspondence with and writings of James Fisher, Berkeley County.","Background research notes and materials about Cuba.  National Geographic  article \"Evolution in the Revolution: CUBA.\" Poems by or translated by Nelson A. Ossorio.","Correspondence with Joan C. Browning re: content for the Henrietta Marie exhibit; white women in the civil rights movement. Biography. Resume. Newspaper clippings; article \"Invisible Revolutionaries: White Women in Civil Rights Historiography.\" Program and other materials for the WVU panel for the Rush Holt History Conference. Commentary from John Raines re: J. Browning and David Mussat's contributions to the RDH Conference; annotated JB paper \"Religion Gave Me Power to Witness\" and David Mussat's paper \"Sticks and Stone: an Interpretation of Power and Religion in the Movement.\"","Research materials on many aspects of WV Black history including newspaper clippings, scholarly articles, meeting programs, and the text of an Odd Fellows speech.","\"Negro Coal Miners in West Virginia, 1875-1925\" from the  Midwest Journal , 1954. Reprint of \"Negro Migration to the Mining Fields of West Virginia\" from the  Proceedings, West Virginia Academy of Sciences , 1936.","Handwritten research notes. Research materials re: WV history. Typed notes on WV black history. 1955 newspaper article re: integration of schools.","Correspondence regarding black WV historical markers. Resignation as a Commissioner for the WV Division of Culture and History. Program for Roosevelt Junior High School Award Assembly, June 2, 2000; Bickley is on the program for the East End History Essay.","Programs for West Virginia Conference on Black History at the First Baptist Church in Charleston, April 22-23, 1988, and the Eighth Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History at Marshall University, November 10-11, 1995","Web page print out of article about Silas Green in minstrel show.","\"Fifth U.S. Colored Infantry\" by John F. Walter, rev. 1998. Includes information on Ohio and WV blacks.","\"Negro Participants in the Fields of the Theatre and Music Plus Associated Enterprises: Period: 1920-1960\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Booklet for The National [Negro] Opera [Company].","Paper titled \" School Desegregation Since  Brown  (1954): 30-Year Perspective\" by Franklin Parker, WVU Professor of Education, 1984. Two pages of annotated text of a speech about education of black West Virginians, [delivered at WVU].  Daily Athenaeum  article re: interview Nelson Bickley about discrimination in housing in Morgantown, 1971. Program for \"The West Virginia Experience in Higher Education: an Historical Perspective\" at WVU, 1984, when AB was on a panel. Facsimile of the pamphlet \"The Black Student at WVU\" 1971-72. Correspondence from the Ohio University Press re: manuscript review of the book  Memphis Tennessee Garrison  by William H. Turner, 1999. \"History of DuBois High School\" from a book. Map of slave plantations in Wood County, Va. Map of Underground Railroad routes to Canada, 1898.","Email correspondence primarily between AB and her daughter Ancella Livers re: access to WWII Soldiers' letters at the New York Public Library. Email from Della [Hardman?] re: Belle Powell and Ravella Hughes.","Includes biographical material for many people of interested to Bickley. Types of material include correspondence, handwritten notes, clippings and articles, photographs, various facsimiles, and more. Subjects of research notes and collected materials include: Carter G. Woodson, Dick Pointer, Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, John Henry, Ravella Hughes, John Wesley Harris, Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden, Della Brown Taylor, Bessie Yancey, Mollie Gabe (Mary Elizabeth Johnson), Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, J. McHenry Jones, Stonewall Jackson, Gwen McMillion Bingham, and William Cathay. Additional topics include: blacks in WV literature; black women; Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill; and black WV legislators. Biographical information is also included in the Interviews and Oral History Interviews series.","Newspaper clippings. Partial notes [speech] J. McHenry Jones including John R. Clifford, Christopher Payne, and black legislators. Pages from a 1913 Congressional hearing on \"Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia\" with conditional pardon of Dan Chain highlighted. Memo, 1/18/03, from Alfonzo Dalton regarding interview with Ben Carson who was a Republican candidate for the US President in 2016.","Letter to researcher Sean Duff, November 19, 2012, and attached information regarding J. McHenry Jones and Wheeling. Letter to researcher L. Morris Jones, May 3, 1989. Newspaper clipping of article about  Hearts of Gold  which was written by J. McHenry Jones (JMJ). Various versions of \"James McHenry Jones: a Monologue\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Full and partial \"J. McHenry Jones, 1859-1909.\" Text of newspaper article about JMJ's opposition to the Evans Jim Crow Bill, February 14, 1907. Research notes including Jones family history. Facsimile of pages from  History of the Jones Family  by John L. Jones.","Research notes on Guion Bluford (?). Ed White, sculptor, biography. Facsimile of pages from the children's book  Black Stars in Orbit , [1995]","Correspondence between NB and The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Incorporated regarding preservation of the Carter G. Woodson house in Huntington. Correspondence between Carter G. Woodson and his sister, Bessie Woodson Yancey, regarding upkeep of the house.","Research materials on Dick Pointer, black Indian War hero, for an article for the  Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society ; the article; handwritten notes; various versions of the article. Research notes. Facsimile of a painting by S. Ross Browne, 1993.","Correspondence with Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates, Jr. Newspaper clipping: MU Commencement.","Correspondence with Adolphus Young regarding black West Virginia women, particularly MTG.","Washington Post  article \"In Quest of the Historical John Henry\" by Hank Burchard, August 24, 1969. Press release by Kyle McCormick, WV Dept. of Archives and History, 1957.  WV Hillbilly , June 23, 1979, \"A Salute to John Henry.\"","Handwritten notes about John Matheus, WVSC professor; his curriculum vitae, ca. 1953; reprint of an article from the  CLA Journal  by him, 1972.","Research notes about Revella Hughes","Research notes about William Hill for  Goldenseal  article about Tuskegee Airmen.","Research on John Brown including materials from the National Parks Service's John Brown Conference, 2000; an annotated Langston Hughes' poem \"October 16;\" and \"A Psychological Examination of John Brown.\"","Two newspaper clippings: one about Fannie Cobb Carter and one about Memphis Tennessee Garrison","Obituary and other information about Major General Charles \"Jackie\" Calvin Rogers. Documents regarding the naming of a United States Army Reserve Center for him. Text of NB's speech.","Goldenseal  article about John Wesley Harris. Facsimile of newspaper clipping about Maude Beatrice Bell Plowden.","Transcript of interview with AB by Ohio State University's WOSU about Della Brown Taylor [Hardman], a graduate of Garnet High School, artist, and teacher at WVSC.","Research notes. Transcript of conversation with Bruce Rogers regarding Aunt Jemima and Bruce Family history. Facsimiles of newspaper articles regarding Aunt Jemima.","Background research about the Sargent School of Physical Education; Sydney Taylor Brown who graduated from there and then WVSC; black women in the American Red Cross; and black women's service in WWII.  American Legacy , Winter 1999. Research notes.","Facsimile of pages from  History of the American Negro,  W.Va. Edition, vol. VII, [edited] by [A. D.] Caldwell.","Print outs of web pages regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. Photograph of monument in Walterboro, SC. Newspaper clippings.","Research materials pertaining to Carter G. Woodson including: journal and magazine articles; facsimile of book pages; newspaper clippings; and a masters degree thesis. Text of speeches and programs for speeches by both AB and NB. Invitation to a reception to honor Sen. and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in Huntington, April 20, 1960.","Poems, correspondence, and other writings by Bessie Yancey, Carter G. Woodson's sister. Photocopies of journal articles and WV Collegiate Institute publications. Special Carter G. Woodson issue of  Community,  published by Friendship House, Winter 1970. Issue of  The Journal of Negro History , July 1968.","Research materials on Mollie Gabe, also known as Mary Elizabeth Johnson, midwife from Falls Mill, Braxton County.","Research materials about John P. Parker, a former slave who was active in the UGRR in Ohio. Parker was also an inventor and a business man.","Research materials about Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, McDowell County representative to the WV House of Delegates.","Letters to Bessie W. Yancey, CGW's sister. Research materials. Poem \"The Forgotten Boys.\" Correspondence re: restoration of the CGW home. Carter G. Woodson Memorial Committee and Foundation materials. Text of speech by AB. CGW stamps. Dedication of statue of CGW. Correspondence re: Ann Eliza Riddle Woodson family property. CGW genealogy prepared by Nelson Barnett, Jr. Letter from CGW to Bessie Woodson Yancey. Text of paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Photographs of CGW and kin.","Correspondence from CGW to Bessie W. Yancey, re: house in Huntington, 1941. Book contract between Bessie W. Yancey for  Echoes in the Hills  and CGW's company, The Associated Publishers, 1939. Letter re: book to CGW from BWY, 1939. Letter from John W. Davis, President WVSC, to BWY, 1945, re: Nelson Bickley. Letter from BWY to Louis R. Mehlinger re: loss of two brothers, 1950. Envelope, no contents, from Joel A Rogers, 1951. Envelope, no contents, from The Associated Publishers, 1958. Photographic negative of BWY.","Research materials including newspaper clippings, correspondence, articles, and research notes on Carter G. Woodson; Bessie W. Yancey; Black History Month; restoration of the Woodson home; and the Woodson family. Annotated copy of the paper \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection.\" Facscimiles of Otis Woodson and CGW photos. Photo of Bessie Woodson Yancey and letter from BWY to CGW re: poetry. Edited entry for CGW from  The Encyclopedia of Black America . List of WV Collegiate Institutue, 1920/21 and 1921/22. Facsimile of correspondence between CGW and BWY re: house.","Research materials on J. McHenry Jones including facsimiles of obituaries; other newspaper clippings; and transcriptions of clippings. Photo of Hazlewood Assembly Hall. Notes [speech?] on JMJ. Timeline with sources. Paper about JMJ by AB. Jones family history.","Pages copied from book  The Hidden Years of Stonewall Jackson  purporting that he fathered a black child. From Merle Moore.","Research materials on Tuskegee Airmen including John L. Whitehead, Jr. and William Lee Hill.","Text of a speech? \"African Americans in the West Virginia Legislature.\" Letter from C.A. Blankenship to  The Negro History Bulletin  adding names of Negroes who served in the WV Legislature, 1964. \"West Virginia's Black Female Legislators\" ca. 1991. Facsimile of photo with caption: \"President Harry S. Truman being shown a copy of America's first Black pictorial magazine. [There is some question which came first  Color  or  Ebony]  Left to right: Sippi Coleman, Pres. Truman, W.VA. Congressman, Dr. I.J.K. Wells Editor and Publisher of Color,\" ca. 1948. Newspaper clipping of article re: female legislators, 1998.","Facsimile of photo of \"Gabriel, Pardoned by VA Governor Tim Kaine, June 26, 2007.\" Research notes. Paper \"Major General Gwen McMillion Bingham,\" ca. 2011 with newspaper clipping. Facsimile of unidentified photograph of woman in uniform. Paper \"'Who Was William Cathay?' adapted from a piece in the St. Louis Daily Times, January 2, 1876.\" Poem \"Cathay Williams,\" 1997. Facsimile of enlarged photo of face of unidentified soldier. Summary/timeline for Cathay Williams/William Cathay.","Draft of \"Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, 1894-1979\"","Covers a wide range of topics on the history of Cabell County; Huntington, WV; and adjacent Ohio counties. Notable are Nelson Barnett's transcriptions of late 19th century Huntington newspaper articles regarding blacks. Also included are newspaper clippings, monographs, photos, biographies, and interviews about veterans, church history, education, organizations, and more.","\"References and Briefs to Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles, [June 15, 1872-October 21, 1898, and June 4, 1922-May 20, 1928]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr., 1988, from Huntington newspapers.","\"Black Veterans of World War I from Cabell County, W.Va., 1918.\" \"Past Imperfect, 1902: Articles of Interest, [Nov. 13, 1901-Dec. 31, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers.","\"Past-Imperfect, 1901: Articles of Interest, [Jan. 7, 1901-May 28, 1901]\" compiled by Nelson Barnett, Jr. from Huntington newspapers","Resources about blacks in Huntington and Cabell County. Includes a bibliography of  Goldenseal  articles about blacks. Other resources are church histories, listings of names, facsimiles of book chapters and papers, newspaper clippings, interviews, handwritten research notes, and more.","\"Progress of the Huntington Negro\" by Prof. J. W. Scott","\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, 1976. Genealogy for Edna Duckworth. \"Biohistrogenetics Project Proposal\" to the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, 1996-1997; Duckworth is listed as the visionary.","Marriage records, late 19th century, Cabell County.","Correspondence with Clara Knight. Facsimiles of Greenbottom Church, Huntington, records listing black members. Records regarding John Ball freeing his slaves, 1793. Map of Millersport, OH, 1887.","Correspondence with Bill Lindsay re: blacks in Huntington and Pocahontas County","Two newspaper clippings: one about Nellie Fransisco [sic] and AB's research about blacks on the Ohio River.","\"A Black History of Huntington\" by Edna Duckworth, [1976]. Census data for black families in Lawrence County, Ohio; 1850, 1860.","Photos of black workers in C\u0026O shop including Anderson Radford, AB's grandfather. Correspondence; transcription of newspaper articles; research notes; biographical sketches; photos of Goodes; newspaper clippings; church histories and programs; facsimiles of book pages; transcription of interviews; and bibliography.","Research notes. Photos. Paper \"Black People and the Huntington Experience.\" Project, \"A Sojourn for Truth: Revisiting Black History Along the Ohio River,\" overview. Research materials re: Huntington, Cabell County, and parts of Ohio. Transcript of interview with Suzette Spencer. \"The West Virginia Colored Children's Home\" by Ancella R. Bickley. \"Poke Patch/Black Fork, Ohio\"","Research notes on Douglass School. Typewritten notes on Douglass School, 1891-1924. Notes from conversation with Nellie Francisco. Handwritten transcription of article, 1902.","Covers research about blacks in Charlestown and Harpers Ferry as well as other locations in Jefferson County. Materials include obituaries, school histories, correspondence, cemetery records, research notes, and more about school integration, Storer College, slave collars, Fisherman's Hall, and more.","Research materials regarding blacks in Charlestown. Obituary for former slave George Jenkins in Huntington, 1917.","Paper about St. Philip's parochial school by James A. Tolbert. Materials re: Sons of Confederate Veterans tablet in Harper's Ferry. Other research materials re: Jefferson County and Charlestown.","Photos of a slave collar. Correspondence re: acquiring the collar for the Henrietta slave ship exhibit.","Correspondence with James Tolbert re: black CCC camp, McDowell County; Black History Conference; Fisherman's Hall, Charlestown, restoration; Harewood Cemetery, Jefferson County; marker for Martin Delany, Charlestown.","Research materials re: Harpers Ferry, the National Park, and Storer College.","Typewritten text of speech at Shepherd College, 2004. Transcript \"Discussion of Integration of Schools in Jefferson County: Jim Tolbert.\"","Handwritten research notes mostly re: John Brown and Harpers Ferry, ca. 2000.","Covers research about blacks in the WV Capitol, Charleston, and other locations in Kanawha County. Topics covered include slavery in the salt industry, biographies, wine cellars, and buildings. Contents include correspondence, facsimiles of documents, research papers, obituaries, newspaper clippings and more.","Research materials about slavery in West Virginia with focus on Kanawha County and the salt industry","Research materials on black attorney Thomas Gillis Nutter.","Research materials on Charleston, WV including: \"Unpublished Black History in the Early Kanawha Valley\" by William D. Wintz; \"Blacks in Charleston, West Virginia: A Survey of Their Presence in the Community and Occupational and Residential Patterns in the Early 1900s\" by Mary Johnson, WVU student. Research materials regarding Oscar Wayman Holmes, the first African American naval aviator and obituaries for C.H. James, prominent black businessman. Text of speech, \"Black People in Charleston,\" 1994.","Research materials on the Dutch Hollow wine cellars in Dunbar.","Documents regarding Samuel W. Starks and the Starks House in Charleston. Correspondence regarding its being put on the National Register of Historic Places.","Correspondence with Eugene Washington re: Phillis Wheatley School and Albert G. Brown, architect.","Excludes Cabell, Jefferson, and Kanawha Counties which have separate subseries. Includes research materials about slavery, school integration, lynching, historic homes, and more researched by Bickley for these counties: Wayne, McDowell, Harrison, Greenbrier, Hardy, Fayette, Monongalia, Upshur, Wood, and Monroe; as well as the cities of Bluefield, Buckhannon, Keystone, Weirton, Weston, and Wheeling. Research materials include photographs, correspondence, brochures, newspaper clippings, book pages, articles, interviews, and more.","Various documents regarding blacks in Wayne County, WV; the Livisay family; writings by Tim R. Massey, 1981; the Lindsey family; photograph and negatives of a photograph of a black family.","Research materials on McDowell County, WV, with focus on the towns of Keystone and Keystone. Letters and notes from Adolphus A. Young, Jr.","Program for \"Freedom Is a Struggle: Glimpses of African-American Life in the Greenbrier Valley of [West] Virginia.\" Brochure \"Black Historic Sites in Lewisburg, West Virginia.\"","Newspaper clipping about Sarah Hall, black lawyer. Facsimiles of research materials. \"The History of the Negro in McDowell County and in West Virginia Leading Up to and Including the Integration of Schools\" by Dr. Douglass T. Murray. Typewritten notes from Adolphus Young, Jr. Correspondence with Alphonso Dalton, Jr. regarding MTG and black McDowell County families","Facsimile of 1952 newspaper article regarding slaves listed in 1848 Harrison County tax book. Slave owners are listed and includes Nathan Goff.","Paper, author unidentified, regarding lynching in WV. Research materials about slaves in Greenbrier County","Correspondence regarding letter from a slave asking to be purchased by Stump family [1851]. Facsimile of letter.","Research notes and resources regarding Glenwood, historic home in Charleston. Clarksburg newspaper article of reminiscences of a former slave, Ann Freeman and others. Clarksburg newspaper article regarding Union Veterans Association.","Research materials for Fayette County including contacts list, newspaper articles, maps, facsimiles of pages from books, student research paper, church histories, handwritten research notes, and grant applications. Correspondence with and Lucille Meadows and her handwritten reminiscences.","Newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical records. Partial manuscript for  To Be Black in Fayette  and annotated pages. \"Black Politics in Fayette County, West Virginia, 1896-1918\" by Daniel Wright. Text of speech by Daniel Wright. Brochure titled \"Camp Washington-Carver: a Compendium of the First African-American 4-H Camp.\"","Research materials and research notes:  Monongalia Blacks Speak : Women, Part II and Men, Part I, Holland family, schools. Interview with Grace Edwards Waters.","Research materials about Weirton.","Research materials about Upshur County. Facsimiles of articles written by R.H. Ralston, Sr. regarding Buckhannon's black history; newspaper clippings. \"A History of Blacks in Buckhannon: The Recollections of Harriet Warfield,\" an interview with Harriet Warfield, 1977.","Research materials regarding blacks in Wheeling. \"Wheeling's Black Population: A General Perspective\" written and presented by Darryl Clausell, Pat Dudley, with contributors Kathryn Snead and Dorothy Cooper, 1990. Correspondence with Margaret Brennan. Photo of AB, Pat Dudley, Brennan, and Annie Tanks at an Oral History Seminar in Wheeling.","Correspondence regarding Memphis Tennessee Garrison. Research materials on Gary and other McDowell County locales: newspaper clippings,  Goldenseal  article.","Papers by Wheeling Jesuit Students Joel Michael Coulson and Beau Conway.","Research resources regarding blacks in Fayette County, WV, including transcripts of oral history interviews with Lucille Meadows, Mrs. Turner, Charista Davis, Lula Lall Jones, Rosa Roach and Jessie Barrett; correspondence, church histories and programs. Includes Smoot family information.","Transcripts of interviews with Alease Watkins, David W. Turner, Russell Lee Matthews, and Elsie Choice Hopkins. Also, includes research notes, newspaper clippings, a grant application, facsimiles of book pages, and correspondence.","Photo of Lomax Hospital in Bluefield. Brochures for Afro-Appalachian Performance Company. Correspondence with Joseph Bundy re: history alive performances. Research materials about black Bluefield hospitals.","Correspondence with Ray Swick re: blacks in Wood County. Research notes. Correspondence with the Wood County Bicentennial Commission re: speech.","Court record for  Mullens v. County Court , 1932. Facsimile of WV entry from  100 Years of Lynchings  by Ralph Ginzburg. \"The Greenbrier County Lynching: a Study of West Virginian Justices\" by Ancella Bickley Livers. \"'Reading the Names,' Program at Virginia State University.\"","Research notes re: Parkersburg black history. Facsimile of letter and transcription of letter from ex-slave Isaac Fairfax to George Washington Henderson.","Letter from Charles (Charley) Goddard re: Greenbrier County history and Sharlotta Gardner contact information.","Copy of photo and negative of lynching. Photos of black children. Note from Maurice Allman, Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants. Transcripts of  Weston Democrat  articles re: 1892 lynching of Edgar Jones. Transcripts re: 1910 lynching. Research notes on these incidents. Application for the Weston Colored School to be placed on the National Register of Historical Places. Research notes re: Weston State Hospital. Correspondence re: dedication of the Central West Virginia Genealogical and Historical Library, formerly the Weston Colored School. Handwritten transcription of interview with Rahleen Gardner who attended the School. Transcript of conversation with Mrs. Joy Gilchrist, 1992.","Transcripts of interviews with Mr. Waldo Lacy and Mrs. Gladys Lacy. Facsimile of newspaper article of speech by T.J. Ferguson, 1870. Research materials on the Sumner School. History of Parkersburg from Bernie Allen. Facsimile of books pages, newspaper articles, and transcription of newspaper articles. Parkersburg Art Center brochure featuring Joseph Eldridge Dodd. Text for slide show (no slides). Typewritten outline of \"Parkersburg Study.\"","Facsimiles of newspaper articles. Correspondence with Ray Swick, Blennerhassett Island State Park. Research materials about blacks in Wood County. Research notes. \"A History of Sumner School\" written by Sally Browning, 1996.  The Island Packet  from the Friends of Blennerhassett Island.","Background research on blacks in Monroe County. Correspondence with Fawn Valentine and Presidents of the Monroe County Historical Society. \"Bishop Matthew W. Clair, Sr.: a Biography\" by Dr. Margaret B. Ballard, 1973.","Includes programs, bulletins, correspondence, research notes, and histories of black West Virginia churches in Fayetteville, Charleston, Charlestown, Fairmont, St. Albans, Parkersburg, Huntington, and Alderson. Also includes a history of churches and lodges in West Virginia as well as histories of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Galilean Fisherman lodges. Denominations represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Episcopalian, and Baptist.","Correspondence with Lucile S. Meadows regarding help with the Second Baptist Church, Fayetteville, Centennial; racial tolerance in schools","\"125th Anniversary Journal\" First Baptist Church, February 1, 1868-February 28, 1993, Charleston, WV","Time line for black Episcopalians in WV. \"The First Hundred Years: a History of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Charles Town.\" Research notes and sources. Humanities Foundation of WV grant application by Florita Montgomery to study the history of St. Phillips' Episcopal Church. Information on the Trinity Church in Parkersburg. Photograph including some black congregants.","1907 Weekly Bulletin of Diamond St. M.E. Church in Fairmont","Book titled  Miracle on B Street Continues  about St. Paul Baptist Church's (St. Albans) 131st anniversary.","Letter re: slide presentation at the Young Chapel African American Methodist Episcopal Church. Program for the 94th Church Anniversary. Handwritten time line and other notes. Booklet of photographs, text of Bickley's speech, newspaper clipping.","\"Black Churches and Lodges in West Virginia in Their Infancy, 1865-1900\" by J. Reuben Sheeler. \"History of Bright Hope Lodge #9, F.\u0026A.M. and - P.H.A. Montgomery WV.\" Facsimile of pages \"Introduction and Growth of the Grand United States Order of Odd Fellows in America.\" Notes \"Knights of Pythias of West Virginia History\" researched by James A. Tolbert. Notes about \"Grand United Order of the Galilean Fisherman\" compiled by Ann Wilson.","Email correspondence with Adrienne Belafonte re: a newspaper article about the Shiloh Baptist Church in Alderson. Clipping of the article.","Program for First Baptist Church 125th Anniversary, 1997. Program for installation of Rev. William F. Buchanan, First Baptist Church, 1988.","Includes newspaper clippings, text for presentations, correspondence, research notes, articles, commencement programs, interviews and more about state and national teachers' organizations, historically black WV colleges including West Virginia State College and West Virginia University, integration of schools, histories of specific schools, the Kanawha County textbook controversy, and more.","Newspaper articles: WV Education Association (WVEA) Executive Committee meeting, the National Education Association (NEA) and the need for minority teachers; and recommendations from the Black Caucus,  WV School Journal , December 15, 1973. Photograph of Blacks in auditorium seating, ca. 1950s","Multiple facsimiles of a post card picturing Albert Long, \"Bertie\" -- Aunt Onie's Son. West Virginia State College Commencement Programs: 1948, 1950, 1951","Information sheets and travel plans for trip to Egypt, July 5, 1987, sponsored by WVSC. Passport and Visa information written on folder.","Various versions of text for a multi-media program on the history of West Virginia State College (WVSC) and Institute, WV","Letter to Edmonia Grider from Marjorie [Counts] regarding the Hilltop School, October 7, 1974.","Manuscript discussing integration and black teachers in WV, author unknown. Speech (?) regarding school integration. Research notes. Annotated speech: \"Black Education in West Virginia\" delivered in Shepherdstown.","Research materials on the integration of WV schools: facsimiles of WV newspaper articles regarding integration of schools; \"How Black Students Saw Themselves through the Decades of Change at Bluefield State College (founded in 1895) as It Changed from Predominately Black Institution to a Predominantly White Institution\" by James Worsham","Program for the Alpha Delta Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 19th annual Jabberwock, March 16th, 1949. Dance invitation, 1948. WVSC Commencement program, 1949. Washington Alumni Chapter banquet, 1976, to roast John W. Davis. Newspaper articles","Vocational and Educational Survey for the Kanawha County Negro Schools  by Andrew H. Calloway, 1945.","Correspondence, photos, newsletter, and newspaper clippings regarding the Douglass High School (Huntington) Reunion. Notes on class of 1947. Newspaper clipping regarding NB. Photo YWCA Y-Teens, Douglas High School, Christmas, 1946.","Research notes on schools in Keyser and Piedmont, WV, including a facsimile of book pages from  Howard School: a History, 1877-1955 regarding a black student strike for a better school in 1939. Notes on interview with Alberta Coleman, Piedmont, WV. Notes from interview with Opal Coates Carter, and other research notes, regarding Woolworth Fire, Charleston, WV, [ca. 1964s].","Compilation, by R. Charles Byers, of resources regarding WV black schools.","Annotated pages for \"Integration in West Virginia\"","Bulletin of West Virginia State College , Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\"","Affirmative action statistics for Bluefield State College, 1984. \"Pride and Preservation: West Virginia State College\" seminars which included Alex Haley as a speaker, 1979. Newspaper article re: archives at West Virginia State College, 1979.  Southern Rural Women's Network Newsletter , June, 1983. Photograph of Alex Haley with inscription and signed letter from Alex Haley to NB, 1970.","Research notes and materials for research on education in Mason County, WV","Research materials regarding the Lincoln School in Wheeling, WV","West Virginia State College Bulletin , April 1941, Series 28, No. 2. Handwritten transcription of an article in  The Advocate , 1907.","Program for One Hundred Fifth Commencement, Huntington High School, 1971. Photo of AB, West Virginia State College Commencement, May 17, 1986.","Report of the Twenty-first Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education , 1983, including paper by AB on the Kanawha County textbook controversy and censorship.","Facsimile of a brief historical sketch of Storer College, 1867-1891, by Kate J. Anthony, 1891.","Newspaper clippings and other sources relating to the West Virginia Seminary and College and the Hilltop Baptist Center.","\"Integration in Reverse at West Virginia State College\" by Elizabeth Duran and James A. Duran, Jr.","Correspondence, interviews, newspaper clippings, and facsimiles of photos re: WVSC's East Hall. Research notes.","WV Humanities Council grant application for a presentation on black education in Parkersburg. Research materials and notes. Handwritten and typed notes from interviews with Mrs. Dorsey, Mr. James Emondson, Mrs. Hattie Gazelle Turner, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell. Particular focus on the Sumner School.","Photo slides of WVSC buildings, presidents, etc. Post cards of WVSC buildings and Institute. Note cards from a lecture. Research materials on all aspects of WVSC history.","Research materials on many aspects of WVSC history including faculty information. Includes these publications: \"ROTC in Review: 40 Years of Tradition;\" \"West Virginia State College Glee Club;\" Alumni Association, Los Angeles Chapter, Scholarship Luncheon program, 1989;","Program for Convocation and Dedication of the Harold Maceo McNeill Physical Facilities Plant, WVSC, 1999.","Letter from AB re: retirement of Justine Gutzmer; retirement announcement for Gerald Cote, Beatrice Dupass, Gutzmer, and Darthulia Jones. Facsimile of WWII death notice of Oliver Johnson to his parents and his obituary. Johnson was Gutzmer's brother.","Booklet of texts and order of ceremonies for the WVSC commencement program, 1985.","Includes background research on the Montgomery Woman's Improvement League, the West Virginia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Mountain State Bar Association, and the West Virginia Medical Society. Research materials include a yearbook, programs, correspondence, a members list, and more.","Montgomery Woman's Improvement League Year Book , 1955-56 and 1960-61. Program for West Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. Annual Convention, 1959. Newspaper photojournalism article regarding the College Alumni Club 50th anniversary history booklet. Program for the Annual Debutante Ball sponsored by Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1958. Correspondence with Katherine Atwater regarding resources.","Program for the Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet of the Mountain State Bar Association, 1985. List of members, 1986.","Paper titled \"The West Virginia Medical Society [Black]\" Article: \"Historically Black Medical Colleges: From Scorn to Success\" from  The Boule Journal , 2004.","This subseries includes maps, research papers, newspaper clippings, letters, census data, newspaper articles, facsimiles of historical slave documents, and more. Other materials regarding slavery can be found in county subseries and the Underground Railroad Subseries.","West Virginia map. \"Number of Slaves in Counties Which Became WV\" 1850, 1860. Typescript of  Historical Atlas of West Virginia  by Frank S. Riddel.","Handwritten notes on John Marshall; Marshall and slavery; Marshall and Robin Spurlock, his servant. Typed observations. Resource materials.","Facsimiles of legislation and resolutions to abolish slavery; and a list of representatives at the state convention in Wheeling.","Research materials. Typewritten manuscript[s] by James Oliver Horton. Codes for occupations. Copy of newspaper article.","Newspaper clipping and multiple facsimiles of an article about a slave breeding farm in Greenup, KY.","Research materials about slaves in Ohio Valley plantations and adjacent WV counties. Photocopies of photographs of Mary and plantation sites.","Facsimiles of: newpaper slave ads; Virginia law re: Kanawha Slave Insurance Company; Dunsmore's Proclamation freeing slaves; Va. Law to send slave to Liberia; slaves in Bunker Hill; New York Times article re: slave uprising; and drawing of [Harpers Ferry]. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Afro-American materials. \"History of Gerrardstown\" in  The Berkeley Journal . Handwritten list of properties, including slave names, of Richard B. Washington, [1864]. Letter of transmittl and facsimile of bill of sale for slave, 18[4]5. Transcription of Rumsey-Polk letters re: slaves.","Handwritten research notes and research materials regarding reparations for slavery; text of NB speech; typewritten notes.","Annotated manuscript \"Compensatory Justice: Over Time and Between Groups\" by Renee A. Hill; text of introduction of a speech about reparations; newsapper clippings; web page print outs; articles.","West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter  with articles re: slave letters.  West Virginia Then and Now  article re: John Brown's letter. Research re: images of blacks in journalism. Research notes.","Facsimile of tables of free Negro listings from 1830 census. \"Researching Virginia's Slave and Free Negro Records\"","Facsimile of newspaper article, 1934, re: Mount Pisgah Church, Proctorville, OH. \"The Way It Was…\" by Betty Burcham, a history of UGRR and Mount Pisgah Church. Facsimile of will of Eliza Goode freeing Sully Smith, her husband and her slave, 1848. Facsimile of two receipts for purchase of slaves, 1852. Research notes re: Ohio slaves and fugitives to WV.","This subseries includes text of a speech made by Bickley, books, slides, photographs, brochures, post cards, correspondence, maps, and more. The materials focus on parts of Ohio across the river from Huntington as well as West Virginia. Some topics are quilt codes, abolitionists, runaway slaves, location of Underground Railroad sites, and more.","Research materials about Serena Wilson and the book  Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.","Photos \"Trip to Doddridge County to visit Jaco Hill/cave - UGRR Site - w/Karen Nance, Sandra Moats, \u0026 Judy Wilinson, 6/20/01. Other research materials","Research materials on the Underground Railroad with focus on Ohio.","Brochures and post cards regarding the UGRR and the film \"Nightjohn.\" Correspondence with Margaret Brennan, organizer for the UGRR Summit in Wheeling. \"Reflections on the West Virginia UGRR Summit\" by Cathy D. Nelson; photo of AB speaking at the Summit and with Amanda Nelson and Sherry [Sowchuck].","Correspondence from Alicestyne Turley-Adams re: Underground Railroad Network Partnership.","Correspondence with Lucille Deberry and other research materials re: the UGRR, some in West Virginia.","Correspondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR in WV counties.  Exploring a Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad , 1998, 2nd ed. from the National Park Service. List of UGRR sites in WV.","Photograph slides, numbered and identified. Research materials mostly about Ohio. \"Draft Proposal to Establish a National Underground Commemorative, Interpretive, and Research Center, City of Huntington, West Virginia\" 1994. Itinerary for trip to Washington to meet with Interior Dept. officials and Robert C. Byrd's staff.","Book chapter \"In Gallia and Miegs Counties\" from  The Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroad  by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 1951. Facsimile of handwritten narrative by an abolitionist, [1892]. Facsimile of letter from R. C. Rankin re: father Rev. John Rankin, 1892. Research notes on WV runaway slaves. Facsimile of letter to Daniel ? to Cyrus Little re: UGRR, 1894. Map of UGRR, 1860. Requests for copies from the Siebert papers. More facsimiles of records.","Background materials on the Underground Railroad in Ohio.","Research materials including newspaper clippings and research notes on the Underground Railroad","Research materials re: the Underground Railroad. Research notes.","Facsimiles of documents pertaining to slaves in Jefferson County, VA. Itinerary for Underground Railroad tours [Ohio?].  The Escape of Jane: a True Story of the Underground Railroad  by Henry Burke \u0026 Dick Croy. Henry Robert Burke correspondence. Brochure on Henderson Hall, Wood County. Dick Croy correspondence and resume. Newspaper articles by Burke. \"Black Cultural Sites in West Virginia\" compiled by Michael Pauley and Peter Jesus, 1990","Correspondence with Sandra Moats-Burke re: UGRR. WV and county maps. Facsimile of pages from \"From the Charles River Shire, 1634-1643, to the Present Day Counties: Harrison, Doddridge, Ritchie, Wood, Pleasants and Tyler\" by Barr Wilson. Research materials on the UGRR. Research notes. \"The Anti-Slavery Movement in West Virginia,\" a speech delivered by Sandra Moats Burke.","Research materials re: quilts and the Underground Railroad, 2001-2011. Notes re: Eliza Farrow, 2005. Paper \"The UGRR Quilt Code\" by Leigh Fellner. Research notes; newspaper clipping; facsimile of web page and transcription of story in an email \"Secret Quilt Code on Exhibit until 10/6,\" 2012; and September 2012 issue of Underground Railroad Free Press.\" Mini-grant for UGRR quilts materials, 2013.","Underground Railroad: Official National Park Handbook .","Includes manuscripts and publications for books; plays and reenactor monologues; short stories; magazine and scholarly articles; and other forms of writing in both print and handwriting. Five subseries encompass the various genres of her writing. Also includes background and research materials for the subjects for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction.","Includes research materials for topics of articles. Subjects and formats treated are: encyclopedia entries in the biographical dictionary African American Architects; drafts and final versions of entries for both people and institutions for the West Virginia Encyclopedia; drafts and final versions of articles about Molly Gabe and Carter G. Woodson for Appalachian Heritage; newspaper articles for the Charleston (WV) Gazette Mail and Village Neighbors (FL) on a number of topics including George Wesley Atkinson, 10th governor of West Virginia, but especially for Black History Month and its founder Carter G. Woodson; Goldenseal articles about a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, Jessie Moon Thomas, Edward Greer, the Charleston Women's Improvement League, Memphis Tennessee Garrison, and West Virginia's Tuskegee Airmen; contribution to a symposium on diversity and change for Appalachian youth; and a study guide for a Charleston, WV, performance of Zora Neale Hurston's Spunk.","Articles by Ancella Bickley from the  Goldenseal Magazine","Correspondence regarding use of the Goldenseal article \"Camp War: Remembering CCC Company 3538-C\" in an online education guide by the WV State Museum.","Annotated manuscript and research notes for Goldenseal article \"Education and Activism in Gary: a Visit with Jessie Moon Thomas.\" Correspondence with Mrs. Thomas including notes on the Froe and Moon families.","Issue of the journal  Appalachian Heritage  containing AB article \"Profiles: Mollie Gabe\" by Ancilla  [sic]  Bickley.","\"Remembering Carter G. Woodson, the 'Father of Black History'\" in  Village Neighbors , [a publication of the Village in Florida where the Bickley's resided.] Typed notes on Carter G. Woodson. Transcription of letter from Bessie Woodson Yancey, CGW's sister, including text of the poem \"If You Live in West Virginia.\" CGW black history quiz prepared for the Spicy Ladies meeting.","Typed text of autobiographical musings about friendship: likens travel in the south in 1952 to the Underground Railroad travel; and includes details about the move to Morgantown in 1966.","Correspondence with  Goldenseal  regarding \"Edward Greer: First Black General from West Virginia\" and potential story about 1939 black student strike in Piedmont, WV. Manuscripts for Greer article.","Correspondence and drafts of a  Goldenseal  article \"Lifting as We Climb\" about the Charleston Woman's Improvement League. Research materials including facsimiles of photographs. Newspaper article about Judge Irene Berger, McDowell County.","Research materials on Carl Eugene Barnett and Robert Edward Lee Washington for entries in  African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945 .","Spiral bound program for  A Different World: Symposium on Diversity, Change, and Appalachian Youth,  2006, where Bickley was a panelist.","Appalachian Heritage , Summer 2008, which includes \"Carter G. Woodson: the West Virginia Connection\" by Ancella Bickley","Appalachian Heritage , Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia, 1991, which includes Bickley's \"Molly Gabe\" in the Profiles section.","Goldenseal , Winter 2011, containing AB's article \"General Edward Greer: West Virginia's First Black General.\"","Correspondence with Dreck S. Wilson re: contribution to the book  Biographical Dictionary of African-American Architects, 1865-1945.","Research materials about George Wesley Atkinson, tenth governor of WV who attended Howard University. Paper titled \"West Virginia's Tenth Governor and the Black Community\" and newspaper article by AB.","Research materials re: the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. Newspaper article written by AB. Testimonial for Fannie Cobb Carter. Research notes. Facsimiles of photos. Transcript of interview with Araminta Miller Justice. AB's paper about the Home.","Manuscript drafts and final versions for entries in the West Virginia Encyclopedia. Materials from West Virginia Humanities Council meetings re: the format and content of the Encyclopedia","Appalachian Heritage, Special Issue: Blacks in Appalachia,  Fall 1991, with article by AB in the Profiles Section on Mollie Gabe.","Musings written to friends, 1996. Clipping of \"Commentary: Capable of Thinking, Working…and Paying Her Own Bills,\" 1979, Ancella Bickley Jr.","Processor-created bibliography of Ancella Bickley's writings","Includes books written, complied, or edited by Bickley, and background research materials and drafts of manuscripts. Books Bickley wrote include: a children's book,   LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot , also titled  Lucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot  ;   …to be black in fayette  [sic];   History of the West Virginia State Teacher's Association ; and   In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for Colored Deaf and Blind . Books edited by Bickley include:  Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History ;  Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman ; and   Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listing of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia .","Typed manuscripts, 1-14 parts, of 1968 oral history interview with Garrison by Bernard Cleveland, with AB notes and Post-it-Note tabs.","Draft of book introduction; correspondence; photos and negatives for book: MTG and family, Gary WV, mining, Edward O'Toole, facsimiles of photos. Facsimiles of William Garrison's obituary, letter of condolence from Agatha S. Lowe. Program for MTG celebration at Marshall. Personal notes of congratulations on book. Photograph permissions. Facsimile of deed for MTG's grandfather's property, Hollins, VA.","\"The Charleston Stage Company's Study Guide for George C. Wolfe's Adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's  Spunk \"","Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History  edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Ancella Bickley","Text and illustrations for [children's] book  Lucia Jean, No Name, and the Parrot  as told to Ancella. Original illustrations by S. Ross Browne.","Manuscript for \"Papers from the Conference on West Virginia's Black History, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, September 1991\" Facsimile of a book chapter \"Negro Education and Integration.\" Facsimile of photograph of students at Weston Colored School.","Spiral bound  The Gathering .","Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia  edited by Ancella R. Bickley.","History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association  by Ancella R. Bickley; program for The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, Inc. annual banquet, 2006; research notes on  History of Negro Secondary Education in McDowell County, WV.","In Spite of Obstacles: a History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind, 1926-1955  by Ancella Bickley.","Memphis Tennessee Garrison: the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman  edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen.","Our Mount Vernons: Historic Register Listings of Sites Significant to the Black History of West Virginia  edited by Ancella R. Bickley. Program for Second Baptist Church in Fayetteville, 1993","Manuscript for  …to be black in fayette  written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia, and The Fayette County Black Caucus.","Permissions to publish papers in  Honoring Our Past: Procedures of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History .","Correspondence with Joe William Trotter. Research notes. Materials relating to the Second Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History and a paper on James McHenry Jones. Trotter's syllabus for a seminar \"The Afro-American Experience.\" \"Blacks in West Virginia: A Critique of the Secondary Literature and Survey of Primary Sources\" by Joe W. Trotter.","Galley proof of the children's book,  LuJay, No-Name, and the Parrot  by Ancella R Bickley, illustrated by S. Ross Browne. Handwritten list of names.","…to be black in fayette  written and compiled by Ancella R. Bickley for The Centennial Committee of the Second Baptist Church of Fayetteville, West Virginia and The Fayette County Black Caucus.","Includes full plays, skits, and historical interpreter scripts depicting characters such as: Ester from the Bible; West Virginia men and women such as Molly Gabe from Braxton County; Deborah Lacks Pullum, daughter of Henrietta Lacks; and many more. Includes manuscripts for a collaboration with Maureen Crocket in writing \"Tangled Threads: a Three Act Play\" and other plays. For \"Two Saint Say,\" a play performed at the Central Florida Community College, materials include an audition announcement, program, newspaper clipping, and correspondence. Also included is a newspaper clipping and details about Bickley's winning the Florida Senior Playwright Festival contest with \"Wade in the Water.\"","Newspaper article about the play  Two Saint Say  and its performance.","\"Historical Information Re: Milly, Enslaved Black Woman on Whom the Character, OAGE, in  Toussaint Say  Is Based\" Handwritten research notes.","Manuscript for \"Wade in the Water: a Play in One Act\" by Ancella R. Bickley. Correspondence regarding performance.","Manuscripts and notes for \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Annotated text.","Program for performance of  Two Saint Say  at the Central Florida Community College, February-March, [2008] Print of online article from the  Ocala Star Banner  added by processor.","Two Saint Say  and AB typed comments","Annotated \"In the Name of Woman.\" Facsimile of pages from 1909 court docket book, County of Allegheny (PA) and court case upon which the play is based.","Correspondence with Maureen 'Bunny' Crockett and Bobbi (bjslake@comcast.net) regarding changes to the play  Tangled Threads . Typed pages with annotations regarding black history. \"Mother Love: a Three Act Play\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.","Newspaper clipping for \"Villager's Work Winds Playwright Contest.\"\" Congratulatory email for selection of  Wade in the Water  for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Email commenting on inspiration for various plays. Lyrics for the spiritual \"Wade in the Water.\"","Scripts for historical interpreters for Deborah Lacks Pullum, Henrietta Lacks' daughter; and Henrietta Lacks. \"It Ain't Her: a One Act Play.\" Script for historical interpreter for Ona \"Oney\" Judge; Robert Smalls, 1839-1915; Callie House; and Percy Julian. Research notes on Dr. James Marion Sims and other projects. Program for WVU Honors College Symposium \"With a Torch in Their Souls: African Americans in the Civil War\"","Script for historical interpreter for Charles Hamilton Houston presented for the African-American Club, 2011; Gabriel; and Henrietta Lacks.","Research notes. Text of play \"And Further She Sayeth Naught.\" Text of play \"Heritage: an Historical Drama in Three Acts\" by Ancella Bickley and Maureen Crockett.","Two Saint Say: A Play in Two Acts . Auditions announcement. Correspondence regarding the production. Proposal to produce the play from the director Bobbi Jordan.","Correspondence regarding Megan Forrest, actress. Double sided card featuring photos of Ms. Forrest and a brief overview of future endeavors.","Brief plays regarding voting issues including: lack of attention to candidates and issues, campaign spending, voter assistance, pay for voting, etc. Unidentified group photograph. Handwritten dialog.","Two Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts  [performed at] Central Florida Community College, Ocala, Florida, February 29-March 1, 2008.","Submission form for  Wade in the Wate r for the Florida Senior Playwright Festival. Manuscript for Wade in the Water. Email update for Festival.","Manuscript for \"The Crossing,\" a play. Photocopied page regarding Mollie Gabe and her time in Braxton County.","Typed manuscript for a play  Tangled Threads .","\"On This Rock,\" a play; one annotated. Handwritten notes on \"A Last Right\" and \"A Good Christian Woman.\" Recommended edits to Bickley's writing? Short stories, \"The User\" and \"Feelin' the Heat\" by Charles Lloyd.","Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness , 1996, which includes Bickley's \"The Baby Catcher\"","Spiral bound  Two Saint Say: a Play in Two Acts  by Ancella Bickley","Research and performance notes for  Tangled Threads: A Three Act Play  by Ancella R. Bickley and Maureen Crockett. Lists of guests who read parts, 2014. Comments from readers.","Annotated  Tangled Threads , 2008.","Tangled Threads  labeled \"Work Copy\"","Tangled Threads","Annotated \"I-John,\" a play.","Table of contents for Skit of Ester, 2010. Web page re: Esther. Typed page re: Haman, Mordecai, and Esther. Chapter summaries. Typed paper about Queen Vashti. Two typewritten pages from larger document. Letter to Jerome re: return of skit manuscript. Letter to Jerome re: transmittal of skit text and masks for players. Handwritten, not AB's handwriting, notes. Three \"masks,\" made from paper fans, and for 6 characters.","Includes manuscripts and edited manuscripts for many stories and a collection of short stories,  Turn Left at the Desert  . Bickley's stories are mostly historical character studies and include themes such as faith and community. One highlight is a critical review of Bickley's short story \"Martha,\" a part of the anthology  Appalachian Love Stories  .","Manuscripts: \"Gabe,\" \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\" contents, \"Jones,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" and \"Sister Angelica.\"","Annotated story manuscripts. \"'Jones': Manuscript Submitted for Workshop, Women Writers Conference\" and reviewed by Faith [Holsart?]","Annotated manuscript for the story \"On This Rock;\" the play  Tangled Threads ; and the story \"It Ain't Her\"","Correspondence regarding writing critiques. Text of \"Mr. Adams,\" \"The Church on the Corner,\" \"Gabe,\" \"Angie's Uncle Robert,\" three versions of \"Mr. Abe Jackson,\" \"The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"DoeDoe,\" \"Addie,\" \"Lesey, Who Was Black, But Comely,\" \"The Lavender Hat,\" and \"A Day in the Park.\" AB commentary on stories.","Review of \"Martha.\" Text of \"Martha.\"","Manuscripts and notes for \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Belli: 'Momma Raised Me Up Special',\" The Battle of the Bottle,\" \"Bertha,\" \"Friends,\" and \"Martha.\"","Manuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert","Manuscript for stories for Turn Left at the Desert: \"It Ain't Her,\" \"Hush Now, Child\"","Excerpt from a review of AB's story, [\"Martha\"], in  Appalachian Love Stories .","Short stories for  Turn Left at the Desert.","Annotated manuscript for \"Bertha,\" a short story.","Appalachian Love Stories  compiled and edited by James M. Gifford, Edwina Pendarvis; includes \"Martha\" by Ancella Bickley.","Parts of  Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal \"Snapshots\" from a Black Community.","Handwritten beginning of a story","Handwritten pieces of writing","Typewritten contents for \"Turn Left at the Desert: Verbal 'Snapshots' from a Black Community\"","Typed manuscripts for various short stories.","Bickley was a prolific speaker; speeches cover a wide range of topics including faith, WV black history, black history and pride, West Virginia State College, education, black literature, and more. The majority of the speeches are typewritten.","Program for \"Mending an Era: a Slave Ship Speaks: the Wreck of the Henrietta Marie.\" Typed text, pages 6-7, of a speech (?) about slaves, Anderson Radford, Cassie Thomas Carter, and MTG's mother.","Text of 2 speeches about Alice Walker's novel  The Color Purple:  \"The Uses of Literature: 1984 \u0026 The Color Purple, Panel Discussion at the Tenth Anniversary Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,\" September, 1984; and one at Richard Bland Community College, October 7, 1985. Research notes on  The Color Purple . Research notes on Alice Walker's short stories \"1955\" and \"In Love and Trouble\"","Correspondence, schedule, lecture series program with AB's lecture on the Underground Railroad. Typed notes from Guyandotte presentation 11/9/91, and the Guyandotte Civil War Days. Program for Guyandotte Civil War Days, October 12-November 4, 1992 with listing of AB lecture \"Local Black Settlement.\" List of sources by Alan Gould, Marshall University. Invitation to present at the 1993 Civil War Days.","T he West Virginia and Regional History Collection Newsletter , Summer 1989, which includes a speech by AB at an education in WV forum.","Annotated text of a speech by both AB and NB about their time at WVU. WVU program \"A Celebration: Integration of Sports on the WVU Campus\" Correspondence with Dana Brooks regarding participation","Article regarding speech about  The Color Purple  at the West Virginia Alliance for Women's Studies meeting. Text of paper \"Black Education in WV\" read at WVU 6/20/89 for West Virginia Day.","Text of speech about black history in West Virginia and after-dinner remarks regarding social history. Email, travel itinerary, newspaper clipping, and correspondence.","Paper about the slave ship Amistad.","Text of speech re: the Underground Railroad. Newspaper article re: decree of freedom from slavery 150 years after.","Handwritten speech to Mo So Lit Club in McDowell County regarding the history of education of blacks, April 1983. WVSC Fall Convocation program, September 8, 1983; two texts of AB's welcome.","Handwritten poem \"Scamp\" [by Paul Laurence Dunbar]. Two handwritten speeches to the WVSC student government regarding importance of citizenship and service, and the history of WVSC. Invitation to speak to the Student Government Association, April 16, 1982. Newspaper article about black newspapers. Program for the Student Government Association Annual Inauguration Dinner, April 13, 1980. Speech for the Honors Convocation, 1985. \"Remarks prepared for State Senator Marie Redd for Blk History Month-2/4/99\" regarding black history and WV black history.","Correspondence regarding invitation to speak at the West Virginia State Baptist Convention. WVSC new student orientation schedule with remarks scheduled for AB. Text of speech, 1984 and 1985, including a brief history of WVSC and Institute.","First page of WVSC Honors Convocation Speech","Program for \"Building Leadership for Educational Excellence: NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Leadership Conference, November 1-3, 1985 - Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.\" Annotated text of speech \"A Response to the New Right's Agenda for Public Education.\" Other speeches regarding education","Annotated text, some handwritten, of speech to the Mo So Lit Club, McDowell County, WV. Program for The Matrons and Maids Social and Literary Club (Ma-So-Lit), 50th Anniversary, April 17, 1983. Program and text of introduction of Ethel O. Davie for the WVSC Graduate Dinner, 1984.","Program and text of speech for \"Rewriting History\" panel at the \"Premonitions and Perspectives from 1984: Has the Orwellian World Arrived?\" Wisconsin Intellectual Freedom 6th Annual Conference in Milwaukee, March 1-3, 1984. Program, including full text of AB's speech for a panel on \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion\" at the Twenty-First Annual NEA Conference on Human and Civil Rights in Education, February 25-27, 1983. Correspondence regarding invitations to speak at these conferences.","A speech about  The Color Purple  possibly delivered at a Virginia Humanities Conference.","Text of speech for WVSC Convocation and an outline of speech to women students.","Speeches about Carter G. Woodson, WV black history, her life and experiences, and MLK Day.","Speeches about WV black history, historical research, community service, her life and experiences, importance of black organizations, her faith, black women, race, and black education. Programs from presentations at churches. Letter confirming appointment to the Danforth Associate Program.","Speeches about black education; being a role model; leadership; church missionary work; Martin Luther King, Jr.; taking control; the college experience; community service; honoring Alan Gould; Our Mount Vernons; and black history. Corresponence re: speaking at churches.","Speeches about Black History Month; civil rights; Kwanzaa; women's rights; Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Underground Railroad; MTG; The Color Purple; black culture; Alice Walker; Carter G. Woodson; and WV black history.","Slides for WV black history speech. Research materials on WV black institutions. First two pages of speech. Handwritten text on various institutions.","\"Go with God: Remembering All of Us…,\" Commencement address at MU, 1990. Photograph of unidentified black men singing in church. The program for the 1975 NCTE Spring Institutes: \"Teaching Minority Literatures at All Levels.\"","Text of speech, one annotated, about  The Color Purple  for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; handwritten notes.","Text of two speeches about black culture with notes for accompanying slides. Note from Charles Davis. Langston Hughes poem with Alex Haley autograph. [No slides in file.]","Booklet presented to AB after she made a speech for the Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington.","Correspondence with NEA re: participation in panel \"Perspectives on Censorship: A Discussion.\" Handwritten speech on censoring literature by blacks and women in the context of the Kanawha County textbook controversy.","Background materials, correspondence, and text of speech \"Multiculturalism in West Virginia\" at the Governor's Honors Academy.","Newspaper clipping about AB Commencement address at Marshall University, 1990. \"And Further She Sayeth Naught: a Play in Three Acts\" by Maureen \"Bunny\" Crocket and Ancella Bickley. [Speech] re: education in WV.","Text of speech about Martha Toler Spencer. Outline for [speech] about black women. Handwritten text of speech in Virginia, Longwood College, about black women. Notes.","\"Go with God: Remember All of Us\" AB's commencement address at MU, 1994.","Typed text of speech for the National Education Association.","Edited paper about the mission of West Virginia State College and changes for the future."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eItems not held in the WVRHC collection which were sent to the Rare Books Curator:\n\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n1969/70 edition of \"The Black Student at WVU\" \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nBulletin of West Virginia State College, Series 21, no. 1, June 1933. \"Why Choose West Virginia State College\"\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nBickley, A. R., Carter, G. W. M. F. I., \u0026amp; Marshall University, H. W. V. D. A. (1997). \u003ctitle\u003eOur Mount Vernons: historic register listings of sites significant to the Black history of West Virginia\u003c/title\u003e. [Huntington, WV] : [Carter G. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Three generations of the McGavock family lived in Wythe County, Va. The immigrant was James McGavock (1728-1812) who came from Scotland. His son was James McGavock (1764-1838) and his grandsons were James McGavock (1804- 1839) and Stephen McGavock (1807-1880) who was president of the Farmer's Bank of Virginia at Wytheville.","Papers (including correspondence, legal documents, and accounts) of James McGavock (1728-1812), his son James McGavock (1764-1838) and his grandsons James McGavock (1804-1839) and Stephen McGavock (1807-1880). Many of the papers concern lead mines at Fort Chiswell, Va, slavery, agriculture, aspects of the Revolutionary War, and other.  Included are a list of parish levies before 1776; receipts for supplies issued at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Va. and at Fort Patrick Henry, Tenn. for an expedition, 1776-1777, against the Cherokees; and county tax and fee bills for Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, Washington and Wythe counties, Va. The collection includes genealogical information on the McGavock and Boyd families and letters written by members of the Cloyd family and by John Williamson McGavock while attending the University of Virginia.","Letter from John Shaw to Joseph Sheels. This letter is on the same sheet as a receipt signe by Joseph Sheels.","A receipt signed by Joseph Sheels for articles received of James McGavock, on same sheet as the letter to John Shaw.","Circular letter to the Surveyors of the Revenue, Mutilated.","Postmarked Nashville","Mutilated.","Mutilated","Post-marked Richmond, forwarded to Christiansburg, VA","Incomplete","? at Fort Chiswell to [Wythe County], to ?. Incomplete","James Graham, Wythe County to ?","Robert Montgomery, at Madison Township, Jefferson County, Indiana to James McGavock","James F. Perry, at Oak Grove, Chocolate Bayou [Louisiana], to James McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, VA. 2 Copies","Ferguson, Jones, and Campbell, at Philadelphia, to James McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe VA","Harold Smyth, at Wythe Courthouse, to James McGavock, Wythe County VA","[James McGavock] to Ferguson, Jones, and Campbell at Philadelphia. Rough copy, incomplete.","James St. Clair to James McGavock","N.H. Robertson at Nashville [TN] to James McGavock Sr., Wythe Courthouse, VA","Ferguson, Jones, and Co., at Philadelphia to James McGavock at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, VA","N.H. Robertson at Nashville [TN] to James McGavock, Wythe Court House, VA","Lysander McGavock to his uncle james McGavock Sr. at Fort Chiswell, VA","John Hanger at Richmond, to Joseph McGavock, Wythe County VA","William Hill to James McGavock Sr., Fort Chissell (Chiswell) VA","Peter Fulkerson Sr. Lee County VA to ?","Joseph Haller, Wythe Court House to Col. Joseph Kent, Joseph Crockett and James McGavock, Wythe County VA","John Kesten and Nancy Kesten, Johnson County Iowa, to [?]","Adams [Adam?] Sanders to [?]. Mutilated","E.N. Sprinkle to S[tephen] McGavock","J.P. Matthews at Wythe [County] to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","J.W. Truslow at Wythevill to Stephen McGavock Wythe County VA","William B. Mason and Co at Giles Court House to ? McGavock at Wytheville, VA","T.J. Morrison at Seven Mile Ford [Smyth County] to Stephen McGavock at Wytheville, VA","E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","T.J. Morrison at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chisel (Chiswell), Wythe County VA","L. Click and H.D. Roe at Kingsport TN to S[tephen] McGavock. Mutilated.","Hamilton Sagers, at Drapers Valley [Wythe County] to Stephen McGavock, Wythe County VA","Hallers [?] to Stephen McGavock","John Morrison at Wytheville to S[tephen] McGavock","David F. Kent at Springfield to Stephen McGavock, Ft. Chisel (Chiswell), Wythe [County] VA","John Morrison at Wytheville to [?] McGavock","D. McG[avock] at Harpers Ferry (Jefferson County VA) to Stephen [McGavock]","James A McNutt, at Marion (Smyth County VA) to Stephen [McGavock]","J. Brown Jr. at Richmond to Stephen McGavock President of the office of the Farmers Bank of Virginia at Wytheville.","Habliston and Brother, at Richmond to S[tephen] McGavock","Habliston and Brother, at Richmond, to S[tephen] McGavock","Alfred King, per Thomas H. Lambeth, at Richmond to Stephen McGavock","James M. Bland, at Greensboro to Stephen McGavock","F.H. Mays at Fincastle (Botetourt County) to S[tephen] McGavock","E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock Fort Chiswell","Francis Bell, at Back Creek, to Stephen McGavock","Thomas J. Boyd, at Wythevillem, to Capt. Charles W. Venable, Commissary C.S.A. at Wythevillem, VA. On back of sheet is a note tothe agents of the Assistant Commissary's Office at Wytheville, signed by C.W. Venable 15 November 1864","J.N. Goodwin, General Superintendant of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, at Lynchburg, to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","D. Graham at Cedar Run, VA to E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville VA","A.M. Kasey to [?] McGavock","Cynthia M.G. Houston, at Natural Bridge (Rockbridge County), to her cousin Stephen [McGavock]","A. Thomas at Holston Mills to S[tephen] McGavock","J.R. Crockett at Max Meadow, to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock.","J.H. Martin at Wytheville to [?] McGavock","R.E. Withers at Lynchburg, to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock, at Max Meadow, Wythe County, VA","Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lee at Lynchburg to Messrs. and Miss McGavock. Declining an invitation.","John M. Hall to Cloid [Cloyd] McGavock","John H. Gibboney at Wytheville, to Stephen McGavock","Williamson McGavock, at the University of Virginia to his uncle [?]","J.F. Kent at Bellfield Mills, to his cousin Stephen McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock","D.C. Kent at Dublin (Pulaski County) to his cousin Stephen McGavock","V.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock","Williamson McGavock at the University of Virginia to his uncle Stephen McGavock","Joseph Cloyd, near Dublin (Pulaski county) to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock","William Gibboney at Wytheville to J.F. Slaughter at Lynchburg, VA introducing Stephen McGavock.","William Gibboney at Wytheville, VA to S.B. Smith, Richmond introducing Stephen McGavock","Crockett and Blair at Wytheville, Wythe County, to Stephen McGavock","J.W. Hagar to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","Joseph F. Kent at Bellfield Mills to Stephen McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville, VA to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","W.B. Byars at Glade Spring (Washington County) to [?]","W.A. Smyth at Montgomery to [?]","John W. Robinson at Graham's Ford to Stephen McGavock at Ft. Chiswell VA","Noel and Brown at Wytheville, VA to Stephen McGavock","William Matthews at Dublin [Pulaski County VA] to [?]","A.E. Parker at Wytheville to McGavock and Brother at Fort Chiswell.","Mathew Aiken at Croftsville, Tazwell County, VA to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock","William B. Byars at Glad Spring [Washington County VA] to Stephen McGavock","J.M. Crockett at Philadelphia to Stephen McGavock","J.F. Kent at Kent's Mill, VA to Stephen [McGavock]","John R. Richardson, at Morristown, TN to Stephen McGavock at Max Meadows, Wythe County, VA","A.N. Chiffin to T. Wood","T[?] P. Clap to [?]","Lynch A Currin to S[tephen] McGavock","P. Gaines to James McGavock","Phillip Gaines to James McGavock Jr.","Hugh Graham to [?]","Kate Haller to Mr. [?] McGavock","P[?] P[?] Hanson at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","William Hill to Stephen McGavock","V.C. Huff to [?] McGavock","V.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock","Margaret Mathews to her brother [?]","D. McGavock to his cousin Stephen McGavock","E[phraim] McGavock to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County VA","Peter Mulholland to Stephen McGavock","Thomas Quirk to Col. W. Crockett","Waller R. Staples at Richmond to Stephen McGavock","A. Tompkins to S[tephen] McGavock","Sarah [?] to her uncle [?]","One unidentified letter","McGavock (?). 59 Pieces including a small book containing an Index to accounts.","1 Piece","3 Pieces","1 Piece","10 Pieces","1 Piece","6 Pieces","1 Piece","Piece","1 Piece","40 Pieces","3 Pieces","1 Piece","1 Piece","1 Piece","1 Piece","5 Pieces","1 Piece","2 Pieces","1 Piece","Receipt for guns issued for the expedition against the Cherokee 1780. 1 Piece Discharge of Thomas Welch, 1776, 1 Piece","Collector of the poor rates 1796.  1 Piece","Tax levies and clerk's fees 1760-1793. 15 Pieces Other invoices and receipts 1761-1811. 77 Pieces","Scope and Contents","A 1779 Manuscript Volume containing the following: parish levies, receipts from supplies issued to public stores for use during the expedition against the Cherokee, 1776. receipts for supplies for troops at Fort Patrick Henry, 1776-1777; and a manuscript arithmetic. 250 Pages, 8\"x7\" See also folders 5 and 10.","Receipts and certificates of service issued by James McGavock, Ensign, Wythe County Militia. 1791-1792. 25 Pieces","Lead mines in Wythe County, 1810-1833. 53 Pieces including 9 Letters Saltpeter receipts 1814-1815.  33 Pieces including 5 Letters","Tax levies and Clerk's fees 1800-1836. 66 Pieces Other Invoices and receipts. 1791-1836. 86 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees 1838-1866.  29 Pieces Accounts, receipts, and memoranda 1834-1848.  22 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees, 1831-1837.  12 Pieces Other invoices and receipts, 1820-1839.  57 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees, 1847-1851.  6 Pieces","Accounts, Receipts, and Memoranda of Stephen McGavock, executor of the Estate of James McGavock and guardian of Mary, Jane, and Sarah McGavock","Letters from Agnes L. McGavock, aferwards Agnes L. Richardson, widow of James McGavock to his executor Stephen McGavock concerning certain matters regarding the estate.  7 Pieces","Letter from Andrew S. Fulton, at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell [Wythe] concerning dower rights. 1 Piece","Letters from John R. Richardson, at Cedar Hill to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, VA, concerning arbitration of the estate. 2 Pieces.","Statement of lead delivered by the County Lieutenants. 1 Piece","60 Pieces","164 Pieces","20 Pieces","26 Pieces","28 Pieces","35 Pieces","1 Piece","8 Pieces","13 Pieces","1 Piece","6 Pieces","8 Pieces","1 Piece","3 Pieces","626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","626 Pieces. This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","505 Pieces divided between folders 15 and 16.","505 Pieces divided between folders 15 and 16.","2 PIeces","24 Pieces","Accounts of Stephen, Cloyd, William, Cynthia, Polly, and Betsey McGavock. 1 Piece","7 Pieces","Includes a statement of he cause of deathe of William McGavock as wel as a memorandum book (small but not a volume). 17 Pieces total.","2 Pieces","Includes one memorandum book. 116 Pieces","179 Pieces","Fee bills of the County Clerks, 19 pieces.","Fee bills of the County Clerk. 3 Pieces","Fee bills of the county Clerks and Tax bills, 240 Pieces","1 Piece","Fee bills of the county clerk and sheriff. 2 Pieces","Fee bills of the County Clerk. 4 Pieces","Fee bills of the clerk and sheriff. 2 Pieces","Fee bills of the county clerk and sheriff, and tax bills. 50 Pieces","9 Pieces","9 Pieces","John Allison. Survey of a tract of land sold to C.C. Tate. 3 Pieces","Scope and Contents","Papers relating to a tract of land in Wythe County, Virginia, called \"Anchor and Hope\". 7 Pieces","copy of a survey of a portion of a Revolutionary land grant made to Moses Austin, Wythe County, Virginia (1795); and a legal opinion of David McComas (1833) concerning the claim of David Graham to a portion of the land included in the grant. 2 Pieces","Letter of Stephen and Moses Austin and Samuel Paine to Beverley Randolf, Governor of Virginia. Copy of a bond for the repayment of 20 tonnes of lead. 1 Piece","Letter of Henry Banks to William Whitcroft. Copy of the court record of a deed to a tract of land in Montgomery County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Agreement for the sale of a tract of land in Wythe county, Virginia to Mary Graham and William Graham. 1 Piece","Suit in Wythe County. 1 Piece","David Carnut, assignee of Colin Campbell, assignee of John Lathem. Copy of the record of a Revolutionary land claim in Montgomery County. David Carnute, assignee of James newell, assignee of robert Love. Copy of the record of a revolutionary land claim. Both are on one sheet.","John Carter to Joseph Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece","Carter, Crockett, and Thomas Herbert to Robert and Walter Colquohoun. Bond. 1 Piece","Will of Alexander N. Chaffin, of Wythe County, VA. 1 Piece","Lease of a tract of land in Wythe County known as Boiling Spring, to Costilo Hill. 1 Piece","Lease of a tract of land in Wythe County known as Boiling Spring to Isaac Sulander. 1 Piece","Agreement of the sale of a tract of land in Monk's Corner, to Conrad Keesling. 1 piece","Papers relating to the division of Abram Crockett's lands in Williamson County, Tennessee. 3 Pieces","Survey and description of James Crockett's Mountain orchard. 1 Piece","Power of attorney authorizing Alexander Ewing to transfer to David McGavock a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 piece","power of attorney authorizing randal McGavock to sell a tract of land in Sumner County, Tennessee. 1 Piece","James Crockett to James R. Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece","James Crockett and Robert Sayers to William Galt.  Bond.  1 Piece.","Survey of a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Quirk. Bill of sale of a Negro boy. 1 Piece","Robert Dougherty, executor of Michael Dougherty to David McGavock.  Power of attorney authorizing the conveyance of certain tracts of land to David Love, John Craiger and William Chistle, assignee of John Bentley.  1 Piece.  Mutilated","Survey and plats of a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 Piece","Suit","Agreement of Samuel Graham and Nathaniel Crockett and othersconcerning the settling of the estate of Robert Graham. 3 Pieces","Henry Hufford to James E. Brown. Trust deed covering a tract of land in Preston County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Suit in washington [County] District Court. 2 pieces","Suit in Botetourt County.  2 Pieces","Two surveys made for David Love.  1 piece","Bond","Bond. 1 Piece","Suit in Botetourt County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Statement made in Caswell County, North Carolina, in regards to the unaauthorized sale of his property.  1 Piece","Suit","Suit in Grayson County, Virginia. David McGavock vs. Stephen Saunders, administrator of James Ewing. 1 Piece","Deed to a tract of land i Wythe County, Virginia, sold by Samuel Crockett and wife to Ephraim, Stephen, and Joseph C. McGavock. Not Signed. 1 Piece","Assignment of a tract of land. 1 piece","Receipt for payment made by James McGavock for the purchase of William Gillaspe's land. 1 piece.","Bond given to James McGavock to insure compliance with his agreement for the delivery of Aluminum Salt at Fort Chiswell. 1 Piece","Bond for the performance of his duties as undersheriff. 1 Piece","Settlement proposed by the arbitrators to be made by James McGavock with Samuel and Elizabeth McDowell, administrators of James McDowell.  2 Pieces","Suit in Augusta County.  1 Piece","Papers concerning lands conveyed to James McGavock by military and treasury warrants. 2 Pieces","Bond given to James McGavock to secure a debt and to secure the payment of interest due on a tract of land sold to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Memorandum of an agreement concerning the division of the Sheriff's duties and renumeration in Botetourt County.  Bond given by James McGavock as Sheriff, and bond given by Francis Smith and William preston to James McGavock.  3 Pieces.","Bond given by James McGavock as collector of the parish levy, Botetourt County. 1 Piece","Bond given by john floyd and James Thompson to James McGavock for collection of a parish levy. 1 piece","Transfer of a certificate for a tract of land in Williamson County, Tennessee.  1 Piece","James Crockett to James McGavock. Trust deed covering three tracts of land in Wythe County, VA, including the mountain or orchard tract and a portion of Purgatory Tract","Agreement for the sale of a tract of land to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Leases granted by James McGavock to Zaceriah Hurt. 2 pieces","Zaceriah Hurt to James Ward, trustee for James McGavock. Chattel mortgage. 2 pieces","Attachment upon Zaceriah Hurt in favor of James McGavock. 1 Piece","Suit, 1 Piece","Copy of a deed to a tract of land in Wythe county. 1 Piece","Bills of sale for Negroes sold to James McGavock. 8 Pieces","Bills of sale of negroes.  2 Pieces","Survey of a division line between the lands of the heirs of James McGavock Sr., and the heirs of James McGavock Jr. 1 Piece","A memorandum of stray cattle taken by James McGavock at Fort Chiswell. 1 piece","Suit in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Plat, description and receipt of payment for certain tracts of land sold by Samuel Graham to James McGavock. 3 Pieces","Assignment of a tract of land.  1 Piece","Trust deed covering two tracts of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Articles of agreement and bond for the sale by James Mcgavock to David and James Magill, of a plantation in Rockbridge County, VA.  5 Pieces","Referees' decision in a dispute with James McGavock. 1 Piece","Surveyor's plat of a tract of land sold by Joseph Ramsey to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Suit in Botetourt County. 1 Piece","Bond to insure delivery of the indenture of John Myers, an indentured servant sold to James McGavock by Samuel Smith and others. 1 piece","Trust deed covering certain real estate in Stephensburg and a memorandum concerning the property. 2 Pieces","Bill of sale for Negroes sold to James McGavock. 4 pieces","Memorandum of an agreement for farm work to be done by Adams.  1 Piece","Bill of sale of a Negro boy. 1 Piece","Lease granted to Alexander Fisher. Mutilated. 1 Piece","Agreement concerning the sale to Stephen McGavock of an interest in a plantation. 1 Piece","Receipt for money paid for a tract of land. 1 Piece","Bond to insure delivery of a good title to a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, sold to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 1 Piece","Agreement to give possession of a certain plantation to Stephen and Joseph Cloyd McGavock. 1 Piece.","Receipt for money paid for a tract of land.  1 Piece","George Archer, 1852, 1 piece Harrison Archer, 1867, 1 Piece William D. Archer, 1867-72, 3 Pieces John Maybe, 1866, 1 Piece George A. Shoemaker, 1866, 1 Piece P.C. Taylor, 1866, 1 Piece Pleasant C. Taylor, 1866, 1 piece","Farm labor agreements of Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 3 pieces","Survey of 40 acres of land conveyed to an unnamed person. 1 Piece","Comission of John T. Sayers and Francis J. Carter to receive the acknowledgement of Daniel Miller's wife of his deed to James Crockett, conveying a tract of land in Wythe County, VA. 1 piece","Survey of a tract of land belonging to R. Montgomery.  1 piece","Surveys of tracts of land made for William Montgomery, Josiah Ramsey, and Abner Bledsoe.  1 Piece","Survey of a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, conveyed by Robert Norris to Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece","Deed to a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Survey of land deeded to James and Andrew Crockett. 1 Piece","Surveyor's plat of a tract of land sold by james Thompson, agent for R. Price. 1 piece","Court orders regarding public roads. 2 Pieces","Memorandum of two tracts of land in Wythe Couny, VA, surveyed for Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece","Legal opinion on the proper procedure in a sale of land by [?] McGavock to [?] Sawyers.  1 piece","Suits against Abraham Reynolds for debt.  Wythe County, VA.  19 pieces","Transfer if a lease on a tract of land called Crocketts Forge, in Wythe County. 1 piece","Suit in Wythe County.  1 piece","Surveys and plats of land in Burk's Garden, Tazwell County, VA, belonging to Colonel Robert Sayers.  4 Pieces","Suit in Wythe County, 1 piece","Description of a tract of land in Montgomery County, surveyed for David Sloan. 1 Piece","Bill of sale of a negro boy. 1 Piece","Suit for debt. 1 Piece","Agreement with Patrick Henry, Walter Crockett, James McCorkle, Thomas Madison, and James McGavock; concerning the mining of iron. 1 Piece","Suit in Wythe County.  1 Piece","Agreement for the erection of a grist mill.  1 Piece","Copy of a warrant for Richard Woods. Botetourt County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Revolutionary land warrants of James McGavock, David McGavock, Alexander Smyth, John Latham, George Brook, James Crockett, John Creger, David Sloan, Hiram Craig, John Belshen, William King, Godfrey Messersmith, and John Herkerader. 4 pieces.","Andrew Neely vs. John Drake and William Neely George Hancock vs. Andrew Neely One One sheet","William Hay vs. Joseph Barneville and Philip Buttonstone (1794) William Hay vs. David McGavock (1796) One one sheet","17 Pieces","1 Piece","A printed list of guests at Chapman Springs. 1 Piece","4 Pieces","6 pieces","Forms for the use of tax collectors. 5 Pieces","A tax form used by the Confederate States of America.  1 Piece","Tax assesor's form for the United States Internal Revenue Service. 1 Piece","Pedigree and description of Manassas, a thoroughbred horse. 1 Piece","Printed Circular letter announcing a commercial convention to be held in Norfolk to improve the means of communication with the Interior, the West, Nortgwest, Southwest, and North Carolina; and establish direct trade with Europe.  1 Piece","Certificate of membership in the union Agricultural Society of Virginia and North Carolina. 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Many of the papers concern lead mines at Fort Chiswell, Va, slavery, agriculture, aspects of the Revolutionary War, and other.  Included are a list of parish levies before 1776; receipts for supplies issued at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Va. and at Fort Patrick Henry, Tenn. for an expedition, 1776-1777, against the Cherokees; and county tax and fee bills for Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, Washington and Wythe counties, Va. The collection includes genealogical information on the McGavock and Boyd families and letters written by members of the Cloyd family and by John Williamson McGavock while attending the University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Shaw to Joseph Sheels. 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Chiffin to T. Wood\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eT[?] P. Clap to [?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLynch A Currin to S[tephen] McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eP. Gaines to James McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhillip Gaines to James McGavock Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHugh Graham to [?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKate Haller to Mr. [?] McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eP[?] P[?] Hanson at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hill to Stephen McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eV.C. Huff to [?] McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eV.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Mathews to her brother [?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eD. McGavock to his cousin Stephen McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eE[phraim] McGavock to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County VA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeter Mulholland to Stephen McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Quirk to Col. W. 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Copy of the court record of a deed to a tract of land in Montgomery County, Virginia. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement for the sale of a tract of land in Wythe county, Virginia to Mary Graham and William Graham. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit in Wythe County. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavid Carnut, assignee of Colin Campbell, assignee of John Lathem. Copy of the record of a Revolutionary land claim in Montgomery County. David Carnute, assignee of James newell, assignee of robert Love. Copy of the record of a revolutionary land claim. Both are on one sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Carter to Joseph Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarter, Crockett, and Thomas Herbert to Robert and Walter Colquohoun. Bond. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill of Alexander N. 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Many of the papers concern lead mines at Fort Chiswell, Va, slavery, agriculture, aspects of the Revolutionary War, and other.  Included are a list of parish levies before 1776; receipts for supplies issued at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Va. and at Fort Patrick Henry, Tenn. for an expedition, 1776-1777, against the Cherokees; and county tax and fee bills for Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, Washington and Wythe counties, Va. The collection includes genealogical information on the McGavock and Boyd families and letters written by members of the Cloyd family and by John Williamson McGavock while attending the University of Virginia.","Letter from John Shaw to Joseph Sheels. This letter is on the same sheet as a receipt signe by Joseph Sheels.","A receipt signed by Joseph Sheels for articles received of James McGavock, on same sheet as the letter to John Shaw.","Circular letter to the Surveyors of the Revenue, Mutilated.","Postmarked Nashville","Mutilated.","Mutilated","Post-marked Richmond, forwarded to Christiansburg, VA","Incomplete","? at Fort Chiswell to [Wythe County], to ?. Incomplete","James Graham, Wythe County to ?","Robert Montgomery, at Madison Township, Jefferson County, Indiana to James McGavock","James F. Perry, at Oak Grove, Chocolate Bayou [Louisiana], to James McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, VA. 2 Copies","Ferguson, Jones, and Campbell, at Philadelphia, to James McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe VA","Harold Smyth, at Wythe Courthouse, to James McGavock, Wythe County VA","[James McGavock] to Ferguson, Jones, and Campbell at Philadelphia. Rough copy, incomplete.","James St. Clair to James McGavock","N.H. Robertson at Nashville [TN] to James McGavock Sr., Wythe Courthouse, VA","Ferguson, Jones, and Co., at Philadelphia to James McGavock at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, VA","N.H. Robertson at Nashville [TN] to James McGavock, Wythe Court House, VA","Lysander McGavock to his uncle james McGavock Sr. at Fort Chiswell, VA","John Hanger at Richmond, to Joseph McGavock, Wythe County VA","William Hill to James McGavock Sr., Fort Chissell (Chiswell) VA","Peter Fulkerson Sr. Lee County VA to ?","Joseph Haller, Wythe Court House to Col. Joseph Kent, Joseph Crockett and James McGavock, Wythe County VA","John Kesten and Nancy Kesten, Johnson County Iowa, to [?]","Adams [Adam?] Sanders to [?]. Mutilated","E.N. Sprinkle to S[tephen] McGavock","J.P. Matthews at Wythe [County] to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","J.W. Truslow at Wythevill to Stephen McGavock Wythe County VA","William B. Mason and Co at Giles Court House to ? McGavock at Wytheville, VA","T.J. Morrison at Seven Mile Ford [Smyth County] to Stephen McGavock at Wytheville, VA","E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","T.J. Morrison at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chisel (Chiswell), Wythe County VA","L. Click and H.D. Roe at Kingsport TN to S[tephen] McGavock. Mutilated.","Hamilton Sagers, at Drapers Valley [Wythe County] to Stephen McGavock, Wythe County VA","Hallers [?] to Stephen McGavock","John Morrison at Wytheville to S[tephen] McGavock","David F. Kent at Springfield to Stephen McGavock, Ft. Chisel (Chiswell), Wythe [County] VA","John Morrison at Wytheville to [?] McGavock","D. McG[avock] at Harpers Ferry (Jefferson County VA) to Stephen [McGavock]","James A McNutt, at Marion (Smyth County VA) to Stephen [McGavock]","J. Brown Jr. at Richmond to Stephen McGavock President of the office of the Farmers Bank of Virginia at Wytheville.","Habliston and Brother, at Richmond to S[tephen] McGavock","Habliston and Brother, at Richmond, to S[tephen] McGavock","Alfred King, per Thomas H. Lambeth, at Richmond to Stephen McGavock","James M. Bland, at Greensboro to Stephen McGavock","F.H. Mays at Fincastle (Botetourt County) to S[tephen] McGavock","E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock Fort Chiswell","Francis Bell, at Back Creek, to Stephen McGavock","Thomas J. Boyd, at Wythevillem, to Capt. Charles W. Venable, Commissary C.S.A. at Wythevillem, VA. On back of sheet is a note tothe agents of the Assistant Commissary's Office at Wytheville, signed by C.W. Venable 15 November 1864","J.N. Goodwin, General Superintendant of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, at Lynchburg, to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","D. Graham at Cedar Run, VA to E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville VA","A.M. Kasey to [?] McGavock","Cynthia M.G. Houston, at Natural Bridge (Rockbridge County), to her cousin Stephen [McGavock]","A. Thomas at Holston Mills to S[tephen] McGavock","J.R. Crockett at Max Meadow, to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock.","J.H. Martin at Wytheville to [?] McGavock","R.E. Withers at Lynchburg, to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock, at Max Meadow, Wythe County, VA","Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lee at Lynchburg to Messrs. and Miss McGavock. Declining an invitation.","John M. Hall to Cloid [Cloyd] McGavock","John H. Gibboney at Wytheville, to Stephen McGavock","Williamson McGavock, at the University of Virginia to his uncle [?]","J.F. Kent at Bellfield Mills, to his cousin Stephen McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock","D.C. Kent at Dublin (Pulaski County) to his cousin Stephen McGavock","V.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock","Williamson McGavock at the University of Virginia to his uncle Stephen McGavock","Joseph Cloyd, near Dublin (Pulaski county) to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock","William Gibboney at Wytheville to J.F. Slaughter at Lynchburg, VA introducing Stephen McGavock.","William Gibboney at Wytheville, VA to S.B. Smith, Richmond introducing Stephen McGavock","Crockett and Blair at Wytheville, Wythe County, to Stephen McGavock","J.W. Hagar to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","Joseph F. Kent at Bellfield Mills to Stephen McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville, VA to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","W.B. Byars at Glade Spring (Washington County) to [?]","W.A. Smyth at Montgomery to [?]","John W. Robinson at Graham's Ford to Stephen McGavock at Ft. Chiswell VA","Noel and Brown at Wytheville, VA to Stephen McGavock","William Matthews at Dublin [Pulaski County VA] to [?]","A.E. Parker at Wytheville to McGavock and Brother at Fort Chiswell.","Mathew Aiken at Croftsville, Tazwell County, VA to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock","William B. Byars at Glad Spring [Washington County VA] to Stephen McGavock","J.M. Crockett at Philadelphia to Stephen McGavock","J.F. Kent at Kent's Mill, VA to Stephen [McGavock]","John R. Richardson, at Morristown, TN to Stephen McGavock at Max Meadows, Wythe County, VA","A.N. Chiffin to T. Wood","T[?] P. Clap to [?]","Lynch A Currin to S[tephen] McGavock","P. Gaines to James McGavock","Phillip Gaines to James McGavock Jr.","Hugh Graham to [?]","Kate Haller to Mr. [?] McGavock","P[?] P[?] Hanson at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","William Hill to Stephen McGavock","V.C. Huff to [?] McGavock","V.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock","Margaret Mathews to her brother [?]","D. 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McGavock, aferwards Agnes L. Richardson, widow of James McGavock to his executor Stephen McGavock concerning certain matters regarding the estate.  7 Pieces","Letter from Andrew S. Fulton, at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell [Wythe] concerning dower rights. 1 Piece","Letters from John R. Richardson, at Cedar Hill to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, VA, concerning arbitration of the estate. 2 Pieces.","Statement of lead delivered by the County Lieutenants. 1 Piece","60 Pieces","164 Pieces","20 Pieces","26 Pieces","28 Pieces","35 Pieces","1 Piece","8 Pieces","13 Pieces","1 Piece","6 Pieces","8 Pieces","1 Piece","3 Pieces","626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","626 Pieces. 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Bill of sale of a Negro boy. 1 Piece","Robert Dougherty, executor of Michael Dougherty to David McGavock.  Power of attorney authorizing the conveyance of certain tracts of land to David Love, John Craiger and William Chistle, assignee of John Bentley.  1 Piece.  Mutilated","Survey and plats of a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 Piece","Suit","Agreement of Samuel Graham and Nathaniel Crockett and othersconcerning the settling of the estate of Robert Graham. 3 Pieces","Henry Hufford to James E. Brown. Trust deed covering a tract of land in Preston County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Suit in washington [County] District Court. 2 pieces","Suit in Botetourt County.  2 Pieces","Two surveys made for David Love.  1 piece","Bond","Bond. 1 Piece","Suit in Botetourt County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Statement made in Caswell County, North Carolina, in regards to the unaauthorized sale of his property.  1 Piece","Suit","Suit in Grayson County, Virginia. David McGavock vs. Stephen Saunders, administrator of James Ewing. 1 Piece","Deed to a tract of land i Wythe County, Virginia, sold by Samuel Crockett and wife to Ephraim, Stephen, and Joseph C. McGavock. Not Signed. 1 Piece","Assignment of a tract of land. 1 piece","Receipt for payment made by James McGavock for the purchase of William Gillaspe's land. 1 piece.","Bond given to James McGavock to insure compliance with his agreement for the delivery of Aluminum Salt at Fort Chiswell. 1 Piece","Bond for the performance of his duties as undersheriff. 1 Piece","Settlement proposed by the arbitrators to be made by James McGavock with Samuel and Elizabeth McDowell, administrators of James McDowell.  2 Pieces","Suit in Augusta County.  1 Piece","Papers concerning lands conveyed to James McGavock by military and treasury warrants. 2 Pieces","Bond given to James McGavock to secure a debt and to secure the payment of interest due on a tract of land sold to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Memorandum of an agreement concerning the division of the Sheriff's duties and renumeration in Botetourt County.  Bond given by James McGavock as Sheriff, and bond given by Francis Smith and William preston to James McGavock.  3 Pieces.","Bond given by James McGavock as collector of the parish levy, Botetourt County. 1 Piece","Bond given by john floyd and James Thompson to James McGavock for collection of a parish levy. 1 piece","Transfer of a certificate for a tract of land in Williamson County, Tennessee.  1 Piece","James Crockett to James McGavock. Trust deed covering three tracts of land in Wythe County, VA, including the mountain or orchard tract and a portion of Purgatory Tract","Agreement for the sale of a tract of land to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Leases granted by James McGavock to Zaceriah Hurt. 2 pieces","Zaceriah Hurt to James Ward, trustee for James McGavock. 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Mutilated. 1 Piece","Agreement concerning the sale to Stephen McGavock of an interest in a plantation. 1 Piece","Receipt for money paid for a tract of land. 1 Piece","Bond to insure delivery of a good title to a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, sold to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 1 Piece","Agreement to give possession of a certain plantation to Stephen and Joseph Cloyd McGavock. 1 Piece.","Receipt for money paid for a tract of land.  1 Piece","George Archer, 1852, 1 piece Harrison Archer, 1867, 1 Piece William D. Archer, 1867-72, 3 Pieces John Maybe, 1866, 1 Piece George A. Shoemaker, 1866, 1 Piece P.C. Taylor, 1866, 1 Piece Pleasant C. Taylor, 1866, 1 piece","Farm labor agreements of Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 3 pieces","Survey of 40 acres of land conveyed to an unnamed person. 1 Piece","Comission of John T. Sayers and Francis J. Carter to receive the acknowledgement of Daniel Miller's wife of his deed to James Crockett, conveying a tract of land in Wythe County, VA. 1 piece","Survey of a tract of land belonging to R. Montgomery.  1 piece","Surveys of tracts of land made for William Montgomery, Josiah Ramsey, and Abner Bledsoe.  1 Piece","Survey of a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, conveyed by Robert Norris to Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece","Deed to a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Survey of land deeded to James and Andrew Crockett. 1 Piece","Surveyor's plat of a tract of land sold by james Thompson, agent for R. Price. 1 piece","Court orders regarding public roads. 2 Pieces","Memorandum of two tracts of land in Wythe Couny, VA, surveyed for Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece","Legal opinion on the proper procedure in a sale of land by [?] McGavock to [?] Sawyers.  1 piece","Suits against Abraham Reynolds for debt.  Wythe County, VA.  19 pieces","Transfer if a lease on a tract of land called Crocketts Forge, in Wythe County. 1 piece","Suit in Wythe County.  1 piece","Surveys and plats of land in Burk's Garden, Tazwell County, VA, belonging to Colonel Robert Sayers.  4 Pieces","Suit in Wythe County, 1 piece","Description of a tract of land in Montgomery County, surveyed for David Sloan. 1 Piece","Bill of sale of a negro boy. 1 Piece","Suit for debt. 1 Piece","Agreement with Patrick Henry, Walter Crockett, James McCorkle, Thomas Madison, and James McGavock; concerning the mining of iron. 1 Piece","Suit in Wythe County.  1 Piece","Agreement for the erection of a grist mill.  1 Piece","Copy of a warrant for Richard Woods. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Three generations of the McGavock family lived in Wythe County, Va. The immigrant was James McGavock (1728-1812) who came from Scotland. His son was James McGavock (1764-1838) and his grandsons were James McGavock (1804- 1839) and Stephen McGavock (1807-1880) who was president of the Farmer's Bank of Virginia at Wytheville.","Papers (including correspondence, legal documents, and accounts) of James McGavock (1728-1812), his son James McGavock (1764-1838) and his grandsons James McGavock (1804-1839) and Stephen McGavock (1807-1880). Many of the papers concern lead mines at Fort Chiswell, Va, slavery, agriculture, aspects of the Revolutionary War, and other.  Included are a list of parish levies before 1776; receipts for supplies issued at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Va. and at Fort Patrick Henry, Tenn. for an expedition, 1776-1777, against the Cherokees; and county tax and fee bills for Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, Washington and Wythe counties, Va. The collection includes genealogical information on the McGavock and Boyd families and letters written by members of the Cloyd family and by John Williamson McGavock while attending the University of Virginia.","Letter from John Shaw to Joseph Sheels. This letter is on the same sheet as a receipt signe by Joseph Sheels.","A receipt signed by Joseph Sheels for articles received of James McGavock, on same sheet as the letter to John Shaw.","Circular letter to the Surveyors of the Revenue, Mutilated.","Postmarked Nashville","Mutilated.","Mutilated","Post-marked Richmond, forwarded to Christiansburg, VA","Incomplete","? at Fort Chiswell to [Wythe County], to ?. Incomplete","James Graham, Wythe County to ?","Robert Montgomery, at Madison Township, Jefferson County, Indiana to James McGavock","James F. Perry, at Oak Grove, Chocolate Bayou [Louisiana], to James McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, VA. 2 Copies","Ferguson, Jones, and Campbell, at Philadelphia, to James McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe VA","Harold Smyth, at Wythe Courthouse, to James McGavock, Wythe County VA","[James McGavock] to Ferguson, Jones, and Campbell at Philadelphia. Rough copy, incomplete.","James St. Clair to James McGavock","N.H. Robertson at Nashville [TN] to James McGavock Sr., Wythe Courthouse, VA","Ferguson, Jones, and Co., at Philadelphia to James McGavock at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, VA","N.H. Robertson at Nashville [TN] to James McGavock, Wythe Court House, VA","Lysander McGavock to his uncle james McGavock Sr. at Fort Chiswell, VA","John Hanger at Richmond, to Joseph McGavock, Wythe County VA","William Hill to James McGavock Sr., Fort Chissell (Chiswell) VA","Peter Fulkerson Sr. Lee County VA to ?","Joseph Haller, Wythe Court House to Col. Joseph Kent, Joseph Crockett and James McGavock, Wythe County VA","John Kesten and Nancy Kesten, Johnson County Iowa, to [?]","Adams [Adam?] Sanders to [?]. Mutilated","E.N. Sprinkle to S[tephen] McGavock","J.P. Matthews at Wythe [County] to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","J.W. Truslow at Wythevill to Stephen McGavock Wythe County VA","William B. Mason and Co at Giles Court House to ? McGavock at Wytheville, VA","T.J. Morrison at Seven Mile Ford [Smyth County] to Stephen McGavock at Wytheville, VA","E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","T.J. Morrison at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chisel (Chiswell), Wythe County VA","L. Click and H.D. Roe at Kingsport TN to S[tephen] McGavock. Mutilated.","Hamilton Sagers, at Drapers Valley [Wythe County] to Stephen McGavock, Wythe County VA","Hallers [?] to Stephen McGavock","John Morrison at Wytheville to S[tephen] McGavock","David F. Kent at Springfield to Stephen McGavock, Ft. Chisel (Chiswell), Wythe [County] VA","John Morrison at Wytheville to [?] McGavock","D. McG[avock] at Harpers Ferry (Jefferson County VA) to Stephen [McGavock]","James A McNutt, at Marion (Smyth County VA) to Stephen [McGavock]","J. Brown Jr. at Richmond to Stephen McGavock President of the office of the Farmers Bank of Virginia at Wytheville.","Habliston and Brother, at Richmond to S[tephen] McGavock","Habliston and Brother, at Richmond, to S[tephen] McGavock","Alfred King, per Thomas H. Lambeth, at Richmond to Stephen McGavock","James M. Bland, at Greensboro to Stephen McGavock","F.H. Mays at Fincastle (Botetourt County) to S[tephen] McGavock","E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock Fort Chiswell","Francis Bell, at Back Creek, to Stephen McGavock","Thomas J. Boyd, at Wythevillem, to Capt. Charles W. Venable, Commissary C.S.A. at Wythevillem, VA. On back of sheet is a note tothe agents of the Assistant Commissary's Office at Wytheville, signed by C.W. Venable 15 November 1864","J.N. Goodwin, General Superintendant of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, at Lynchburg, to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","D. Graham at Cedar Run, VA to E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville VA","A.M. Kasey to [?] McGavock","Cynthia M.G. Houston, at Natural Bridge (Rockbridge County), to her cousin Stephen [McGavock]","A. Thomas at Holston Mills to S[tephen] McGavock","J.R. Crockett at Max Meadow, to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock.","J.H. Martin at Wytheville to [?] McGavock","R.E. Withers at Lynchburg, to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock, at Max Meadow, Wythe County, VA","Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lee at Lynchburg to Messrs. and Miss McGavock. Declining an invitation.","John M. Hall to Cloid [Cloyd] McGavock","John H. Gibboney at Wytheville, to Stephen McGavock","Williamson McGavock, at the University of Virginia to his uncle [?]","J.F. Kent at Bellfield Mills, to his cousin Stephen McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock","D.C. Kent at Dublin (Pulaski County) to his cousin Stephen McGavock","V.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock","Williamson McGavock at the University of Virginia to his uncle Stephen McGavock","Joseph Cloyd, near Dublin (Pulaski county) to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock","William Gibboney at Wytheville to J.F. Slaughter at Lynchburg, VA introducing Stephen McGavock.","William Gibboney at Wytheville, VA to S.B. Smith, Richmond introducing Stephen McGavock","Crockett and Blair at Wytheville, Wythe County, to Stephen McGavock","J.W. Hagar to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","Joseph F. Kent at Bellfield Mills to Stephen McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville, VA to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","W.B. Byars at Glade Spring (Washington County) to [?]","W.A. Smyth at Montgomery to [?]","John W. Robinson at Graham's Ford to Stephen McGavock at Ft. 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McGavock to his cousin Stephen McGavock","E[phraim] McGavock to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County VA","Peter Mulholland to Stephen McGavock","Thomas Quirk to Col. W. Crockett","Waller R. Staples at Richmond to Stephen McGavock","A. Tompkins to S[tephen] McGavock","Sarah [?] to her uncle [?]","One unidentified letter","McGavock (?). 59 Pieces including a small book containing an Index to accounts.","1 Piece","3 Pieces","1 Piece","10 Pieces","1 Piece","6 Pieces","1 Piece","Piece","1 Piece","40 Pieces","3 Pieces","1 Piece","1 Piece","1 Piece","1 Piece","5 Pieces","1 Piece","2 Pieces","1 Piece","Receipt for guns issued for the expedition against the Cherokee 1780. 1 Piece Discharge of Thomas Welch, 1776, 1 Piece","Collector of the poor rates 1796.  1 Piece","Tax levies and clerk's fees 1760-1793. 15 Pieces Other invoices and receipts 1761-1811. 77 Pieces","Scope and Contents","A 1779 Manuscript Volume containing the following: parish levies, receipts from supplies issued to public stores for use during the expedition against the Cherokee, 1776. receipts for supplies for troops at Fort Patrick Henry, 1776-1777; and a manuscript arithmetic. 250 Pages, 8\"x7\" See also folders 5 and 10.","Receipts and certificates of service issued by James McGavock, Ensign, Wythe County Militia. 1791-1792. 25 Pieces","Lead mines in Wythe County, 1810-1833. 53 Pieces including 9 Letters Saltpeter receipts 1814-1815.  33 Pieces including 5 Letters","Tax levies and Clerk's fees 1800-1836. 66 Pieces Other Invoices and receipts. 1791-1836. 86 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees 1838-1866.  29 Pieces Accounts, receipts, and memoranda 1834-1848.  22 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees, 1831-1837.  12 Pieces Other invoices and receipts, 1820-1839.  57 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees, 1847-1851.  6 Pieces","Accounts, Receipts, and Memoranda of Stephen McGavock, executor of the Estate of James McGavock and guardian of Mary, Jane, and Sarah McGavock","Letters from Agnes L. McGavock, aferwards Agnes L. Richardson, widow of James McGavock to his executor Stephen McGavock concerning certain matters regarding the estate.  7 Pieces","Letter from Andrew S. Fulton, at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell [Wythe] concerning dower rights. 1 Piece","Letters from John R. Richardson, at Cedar Hill to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, VA, concerning arbitration of the estate. 2 Pieces.","Statement of lead delivered by the County Lieutenants. 1 Piece","60 Pieces","164 Pieces","20 Pieces","26 Pieces","28 Pieces","35 Pieces","1 Piece","8 Pieces","13 Pieces","1 Piece","6 Pieces","8 Pieces","1 Piece","3 Pieces","626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","626 Pieces. This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","505 Pieces divided between folders 15 and 16.","505 Pieces divided between folders 15 and 16.","2 PIeces","24 Pieces","Accounts of Stephen, Cloyd, William, Cynthia, Polly, and Betsey McGavock. 1 Piece","7 Pieces","Includes a statement of he cause of deathe of William McGavock as wel as a memorandum book (small but not a volume). 17 Pieces total.","2 Pieces","Includes one memorandum book. 116 Pieces","179 Pieces","Fee bills of the County Clerks, 19 pieces.","Fee bills of the County Clerk. 3 Pieces","Fee bills of the county Clerks and Tax bills, 240 Pieces","1 Piece","Fee bills of the county clerk and sheriff. 2 Pieces","Fee bills of the County Clerk. 4 Pieces","Fee bills of the clerk and sheriff. 2 Pieces","Fee bills of the county clerk and sheriff, and tax bills. 50 Pieces","9 Pieces","9 Pieces","John Allison. Survey of a tract of land sold to C.C. Tate. 3 Pieces","Scope and Contents","Papers relating to a tract of land in Wythe County, Virginia, called \"Anchor and Hope\". 7 Pieces","copy of a survey of a portion of a Revolutionary land grant made to Moses Austin, Wythe County, Virginia (1795); and a legal opinion of David McComas (1833) concerning the claim of David Graham to a portion of the land included in the grant. 2 Pieces","Letter of Stephen and Moses Austin and Samuel Paine to Beverley Randolf, Governor of Virginia. Copy of a bond for the repayment of 20 tonnes of lead. 1 Piece","Letter of Henry Banks to William Whitcroft. Copy of the court record of a deed to a tract of land in Montgomery County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Agreement for the sale of a tract of land in Wythe county, Virginia to Mary Graham and William Graham. 1 Piece","Suit in Wythe County. 1 Piece","David Carnut, assignee of Colin Campbell, assignee of John Lathem. Copy of the record of a Revolutionary land claim in Montgomery County. David Carnute, assignee of James newell, assignee of robert Love. Copy of the record of a revolutionary land claim. Both are on one sheet.","John Carter to Joseph Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece","Carter, Crockett, and Thomas Herbert to Robert and Walter Colquohoun. Bond. 1 Piece","Will of Alexander N. Chaffin, of Wythe County, VA. 1 Piece","Lease of a tract of land in Wythe County known as Boiling Spring, to Costilo Hill. 1 Piece","Lease of a tract of land in Wythe County known as Boiling Spring to Isaac Sulander. 1 Piece","Agreement of the sale of a tract of land in Monk's Corner, to Conrad Keesling. 1 piece","Papers relating to the division of Abram Crockett's lands in Williamson County, Tennessee. 3 Pieces","Survey and description of James Crockett's Mountain orchard. 1 Piece","Power of attorney authorizing Alexander Ewing to transfer to David McGavock a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 piece","power of attorney authorizing randal McGavock to sell a tract of land in Sumner County, Tennessee. 1 Piece","James Crockett to James R. Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece","James Crockett and Robert Sayers to William Galt.  Bond.  1 Piece.","Survey of a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Quirk. Bill of sale of a Negro boy. 1 Piece","Robert Dougherty, executor of Michael Dougherty to David McGavock.  Power of attorney authorizing the conveyance of certain tracts of land to David Love, John Craiger and William Chistle, assignee of John Bentley.  1 Piece.  Mutilated","Survey and plats of a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 Piece","Suit","Agreement of Samuel Graham and Nathaniel Crockett and othersconcerning the settling of the estate of Robert Graham. 3 Pieces","Henry Hufford to James E. Brown. Trust deed covering a tract of land in Preston County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Suit in washington [County] District Court. 2 pieces","Suit in Botetourt County.  2 Pieces","Two surveys made for David Love.  1 piece","Bond","Bond. 1 Piece","Suit in Botetourt County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Statement made in Caswell County, North Carolina, in regards to the unaauthorized sale of his property.  1 Piece","Suit","Suit in Grayson County, Virginia. David McGavock vs. Stephen Saunders, administrator of James Ewing. 1 Piece","Deed to a tract of land i Wythe County, Virginia, sold by Samuel Crockett and wife to Ephraim, Stephen, and Joseph C. McGavock. Not Signed. 1 Piece","Assignment of a tract of land. 1 piece","Receipt for payment made by James McGavock for the purchase of William Gillaspe's land. 1 piece.","Bond given to James McGavock to insure compliance with his agreement for the delivery of Aluminum Salt at Fort Chiswell. 1 Piece","Bond for the performance of his duties as undersheriff. 1 Piece","Settlement proposed by the arbitrators to be made by James McGavock with Samuel and Elizabeth McDowell, administrators of James McDowell.  2 Pieces","Suit in Augusta County.  1 Piece","Papers concerning lands conveyed to James McGavock by military and treasury warrants. 2 Pieces","Bond given to James McGavock to secure a debt and to secure the payment of interest due on a tract of land sold to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Memorandum of an agreement concerning the division of the Sheriff's duties and renumeration in Botetourt County.  Bond given by James McGavock as Sheriff, and bond given by Francis Smith and William preston to James McGavock.  3 Pieces.","Bond given by James McGavock as collector of the parish levy, Botetourt County. 1 Piece","Bond given by john floyd and James Thompson to James McGavock for collection of a parish levy. 1 piece","Transfer of a certificate for a tract of land in Williamson County, Tennessee.  1 Piece","James Crockett to James McGavock. Trust deed covering three tracts of land in Wythe County, VA, including the mountain or orchard tract and a portion of Purgatory Tract","Agreement for the sale of a tract of land to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Leases granted by James McGavock to Zaceriah Hurt. 2 pieces","Zaceriah Hurt to James Ward, trustee for James McGavock. Chattel mortgage. 2 pieces","Attachment upon Zaceriah Hurt in favor of James McGavock. 1 Piece","Suit, 1 Piece","Copy of a deed to a tract of land in Wythe county. 1 Piece","Bills of sale for Negroes sold to James McGavock. 8 Pieces","Bills of sale of negroes.  2 Pieces","Survey of a division line between the lands of the heirs of James McGavock Sr., and the heirs of James McGavock Jr. 1 Piece","A memorandum of stray cattle taken by James McGavock at Fort Chiswell. 1 piece","Suit in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Plat, description and receipt of payment for certain tracts of land sold by Samuel Graham to James McGavock. 3 Pieces","Assignment of a tract of land.  1 Piece","Trust deed covering two tracts of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Articles of agreement and bond for the sale by James Mcgavock to David and James Magill, of a plantation in Rockbridge County, VA.  5 Pieces","Referees' decision in a dispute with James McGavock. 1 Piece","Surveyor's plat of a tract of land sold by Joseph Ramsey to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Suit in Botetourt County. 1 Piece","Bond to insure delivery of the indenture of John Myers, an indentured servant sold to James McGavock by Samuel Smith and others. 1 piece","Trust deed covering certain real estate in Stephensburg and a memorandum concerning the property. 2 Pieces","Bill of sale for Negroes sold to James McGavock. 4 pieces","Memorandum of an agreement for farm work to be done by Adams.  1 Piece","Bill of sale of a Negro boy. 1 Piece","Lease granted to Alexander Fisher. Mutilated. 1 Piece","Agreement concerning the sale to Stephen McGavock of an interest in a plantation. 1 Piece","Receipt for money paid for a tract of land. 1 Piece","Bond to insure delivery of a good title to a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, sold to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 1 Piece","Agreement to give possession of a certain plantation to Stephen and Joseph Cloyd McGavock. 1 Piece.","Receipt for money paid for a tract of land.  1 Piece","George Archer, 1852, 1 piece Harrison Archer, 1867, 1 Piece William D. Archer, 1867-72, 3 Pieces John Maybe, 1866, 1 Piece George A. Shoemaker, 1866, 1 Piece P.C. Taylor, 1866, 1 Piece Pleasant C. Taylor, 1866, 1 piece","Farm labor agreements of Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 3 pieces","Survey of 40 acres of land conveyed to an unnamed person. 1 Piece","Comission of John T. Sayers and Francis J. Carter to receive the acknowledgement of Daniel Miller's wife of his deed to James Crockett, conveying a tract of land in Wythe County, VA. 1 piece","Survey of a tract of land belonging to R. Montgomery.  1 piece","Surveys of tracts of land made for William Montgomery, Josiah Ramsey, and Abner Bledsoe.  1 Piece","Survey of a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, conveyed by Robert Norris to Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece","Deed to a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Survey of land deeded to James and Andrew Crockett. 1 Piece","Surveyor's plat of a tract of land sold by james Thompson, agent for R. 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Chiffin to T. Wood\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eT[?] P. Clap to [?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLynch A Currin to S[tephen] McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eP. Gaines to James McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhillip Gaines to James McGavock Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHugh Graham to [?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKate Haller to Mr. [?] McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eP[?] P[?] Hanson at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hill to Stephen McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eV.C. Huff to [?] McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eV.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Mathews to her brother [?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eD. McGavock to his cousin Stephen McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eE[phraim] McGavock to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County VA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeter Mulholland to Stephen McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Quirk to Col. W. 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Tompkins to S[tephen] McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah [?] to her uncle [?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne unidentified letter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGavock (?). 59 Pieces including a small book containing an Index to accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePiece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for guns issued for the expedition against the Cherokee 1780. 1 Piece Discharge of Thomas Welch, 1776, 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollector of the poor rates 1796.  1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTax levies and clerk's fees 1760-1793. 15 Pieces Other invoices and receipts 1761-1811. 77 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA 1779 Manuscript Volume containing the following: parish levies, receipts from supplies issued to public stores for use during the expedition against the Cherokee, 1776. receipts for supplies for troops at Fort Patrick Henry, 1776-1777; and a manuscript arithmetic. 250 Pages, 8\"x7\" See also folders 5 and 10.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts and certificates of service issued by James McGavock, Ensign, Wythe County Militia. 1791-1792. 25 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLead mines in Wythe County, 1810-1833. 53 Pieces including 9 Letters Saltpeter receipts 1814-1815.  33 Pieces including 5 Letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTax levies and Clerk's fees 1800-1836. 66 Pieces Other Invoices and receipts. 1791-1836. 86 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTax levies and Clerk's fees 1838-1866.  29 Pieces Accounts, receipts, and memoranda 1834-1848.  22 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTax levies and Clerk's fees, 1831-1837.  12 Pieces Other invoices and receipts, 1820-1839.  57 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTax levies and Clerk's fees, 1847-1851.  6 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, Receipts, and Memoranda of Stephen McGavock, executor of the Estate of James McGavock and guardian of Mary, Jane, and Sarah McGavock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Agnes L. McGavock, aferwards Agnes L. Richardson, widow of James McGavock to his executor Stephen McGavock concerning certain matters regarding the estate.  7 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Andrew S. Fulton, at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell [Wythe] concerning dower rights. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from John R. Richardson, at Cedar Hill to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, VA, concerning arbitration of the estate. 2 Pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of lead delivered by the County Lieutenants. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e60 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e164 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e28 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e626 Pieces. This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e505 Pieces divided between folders 15 and 16.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e505 Pieces divided between folders 15 and 16.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 PIeces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Stephen, Cloyd, William, Cynthia, Polly, and Betsey McGavock. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a statement of he cause of deathe of William McGavock as wel as a memorandum book (small but not a volume). 17 Pieces total.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes one memorandum book. 116 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e179 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFee bills of the County Clerks, 19 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFee bills of the County Clerk. 3 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFee bills of the county Clerks and Tax bills, 240 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFee bills of the county clerk and sheriff. 2 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFee bills of the County Clerk. 4 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFee bills of the clerk and sheriff. 2 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFee bills of the county clerk and sheriff, and tax bills. 50 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Allison. Survey of a tract of land sold to C.C. Tate. 3 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to a tract of land in Wythe County, Virginia, called \"Anchor and Hope\". 7 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecopy of a survey of a portion of a Revolutionary land grant made to Moses Austin, Wythe County, Virginia (1795); and a legal opinion of David McComas (1833) concerning the claim of David Graham to a portion of the land included in the grant. 2 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of Stephen and Moses Austin and Samuel Paine to Beverley Randolf, Governor of Virginia. Copy of a bond for the repayment of 20 tonnes of lead. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of Henry Banks to William Whitcroft. Copy of the court record of a deed to a tract of land in Montgomery County, Virginia. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement for the sale of a tract of land in Wythe county, Virginia to Mary Graham and William Graham. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit in Wythe County. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavid Carnut, assignee of Colin Campbell, assignee of John Lathem. Copy of the record of a Revolutionary land claim in Montgomery County. David Carnute, assignee of James newell, assignee of robert Love. Copy of the record of a revolutionary land claim. Both are on one sheet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Carter to Joseph Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarter, Crockett, and Thomas Herbert to Robert and Walter Colquohoun. Bond. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill of Alexander N. Chaffin, of Wythe County, VA. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLease of a tract of land in Wythe County known as Boiling Spring, to Costilo Hill. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLease of a tract of land in Wythe County known as Boiling Spring to Isaac Sulander. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement of the sale of a tract of land in Monk's Corner, to Conrad Keesling. 1 piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to the division of Abram Crockett's lands in Williamson County, Tennessee. 3 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey and description of James Crockett's Mountain orchard. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePower of attorney authorizing Alexander Ewing to transfer to David McGavock a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003epower of attorney authorizing randal McGavock to sell a tract of land in Sumner County, Tennessee. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Crockett to James R. Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Crockett and Robert Sayers to William Galt.  Bond.  1 Piece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey of a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Dougherty to Thomas Quirk. Bill of sale of a Negro boy. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Dougherty, executor of Michael Dougherty to David McGavock.  Power of attorney authorizing the conveyance of certain tracts of land to David Love, John Craiger and William Chistle, assignee of John Bentley.  1 Piece.  Mutilated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey and plats of a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement of Samuel Graham and Nathaniel Crockett and othersconcerning the settling of the estate of Robert Graham. 3 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Hufford to James E. Brown. Trust deed covering a tract of land in Preston County, Virginia. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit in washington [County] District Court. 2 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit in Botetourt County.  2 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo surveys made for David Love.  1 piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit in Botetourt County, Virginia. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement made in Caswell County, North Carolina, in regards to the unaauthorized sale of his property.  1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit in Grayson County, Virginia. David McGavock vs. Stephen Saunders, administrator of James Ewing. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed to a tract of land i Wythe County, Virginia, sold by Samuel Crockett and wife to Ephraim, Stephen, and Joseph C. McGavock. 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Taylor, 1866, 1 piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm labor agreements of Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 3 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey of 40 acres of land conveyed to an unnamed person. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComission of John T. Sayers and Francis J. Carter to receive the acknowledgement of Daniel Miller's wife of his deed to James Crockett, conveying a tract of land in Wythe County, VA. 1 piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey of a tract of land belonging to R. Montgomery.  1 piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurveys of tracts of land made for William Montgomery, Josiah Ramsey, and Abner Bledsoe.  1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey of a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, conveyed by Robert Norris to Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed to a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey of land deeded to James and Andrew Crockett. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurveyor's plat of a tract of land sold by james Thompson, agent for R. Price. 1 piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt orders regarding public roads. 2 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum of two tracts of land in Wythe Couny, VA, surveyed for Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal opinion on the proper procedure in a sale of land by [?] McGavock to [?] Sawyers.  1 piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuits against Abraham Reynolds for debt.  Wythe County, VA.  19 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer if a lease on a tract of land called Crocketts Forge, in Wythe County. 1 piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit in Wythe County.  1 piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurveys and plats of land in Burk's Garden, Tazwell County, VA, belonging to Colonel Robert Sayers.  4 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit in Wythe County, 1 piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of a tract of land in Montgomery County, surveyed for David Sloan. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of sale of a negro boy. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit for debt. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement with Patrick Henry, Walter Crockett, James McCorkle, Thomas Madison, and James McGavock; concerning the mining of iron. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit in Wythe County.  1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement for the erection of a grist mill.  1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of a warrant for Richard Woods. Botetourt County, Virginia. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRevolutionary land warrants of James McGavock, David McGavock, Alexander Smyth, John Latham, George Brook, James Crockett, John Creger, David Sloan, Hiram Craig, John Belshen, William King, Godfrey Messersmith, and John Herkerader. 4 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAndrew Neely vs. John Drake and William Neely George Hancock vs. Andrew Neely One One sheet\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Hay vs. Joseph Barneville and Philip Buttonstone (1794) William Hay vs. David McGavock (1796) One one sheet\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e17 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA printed list of guests at Chapman Springs. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForms for the use of tax collectors. 5 Pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA tax form used by the Confederate States of America.  1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTax assesor's form for the United States Internal Revenue Service. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePedigree and description of Manassas, a thoroughbred horse. 1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Circular letter announcing a commercial convention to be held in Norfolk to improve the means of communication with the Interior, the West, Nortgwest, Southwest, and North Carolina; and establish direct trade with Europe.  1 Piece\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of membership in the union Agricultural Society of Virginia and North Carolina. 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grandsons James McGavock (1804-1839) and Stephen McGavock (1807-1880). Many of the papers concern lead mines at Fort Chiswell, Va, slavery, agriculture, aspects of the Revolutionary War, and other.  Included are a list of parish levies before 1776; receipts for supplies issued at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Va. and at Fort Patrick Henry, Tenn. for an expedition, 1776-1777, against the Cherokees; and county tax and fee bills for Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, Washington and Wythe counties, Va. The collection includes genealogical information on the McGavock and Boyd families and letters written by members of the Cloyd family and by John Williamson McGavock while attending the University of Virginia.","Letter from John Shaw to Joseph Sheels. This letter is on the same sheet as a receipt signe by Joseph Sheels.","A receipt signed by Joseph Sheels for articles received of James McGavock, on same sheet as the letter to John Shaw.","Circular letter to the Surveyors of the Revenue, Mutilated.","Postmarked Nashville","Mutilated.","Mutilated","Post-marked Richmond, forwarded to Christiansburg, VA","Incomplete","? at Fort Chiswell to [Wythe County], to ?. Incomplete","James Graham, Wythe County to ?","Robert Montgomery, at Madison Township, Jefferson County, Indiana to James McGavock","James F. Perry, at Oak Grove, Chocolate Bayou [Louisiana], to James McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, VA. 2 Copies","Ferguson, Jones, and Campbell, at Philadelphia, to James McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe VA","Harold Smyth, at Wythe Courthouse, to James McGavock, Wythe County VA","[James McGavock] to Ferguson, Jones, and Campbell at Philadelphia. Rough copy, incomplete.","James St. Clair to James McGavock","N.H. Robertson at Nashville [TN] to James McGavock Sr., Wythe Courthouse, VA","Ferguson, Jones, and Co., at Philadelphia to James McGavock at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, VA","N.H. Robertson at Nashville [TN] to James McGavock, Wythe Court House, VA","Lysander McGavock to his uncle james McGavock Sr. at Fort Chiswell, VA","John Hanger at Richmond, to Joseph McGavock, Wythe County VA","William Hill to James McGavock Sr., Fort Chissell (Chiswell) VA","Peter Fulkerson Sr. Lee County VA to ?","Joseph Haller, Wythe Court House to Col. Joseph Kent, Joseph Crockett and James McGavock, Wythe County VA","John Kesten and Nancy Kesten, Johnson County Iowa, to [?]","Adams [Adam?] Sanders to [?]. Mutilated","E.N. Sprinkle to S[tephen] McGavock","J.P. Matthews at Wythe [County] to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","J.W. Truslow at Wythevill to Stephen McGavock Wythe County VA","William B. Mason and Co at Giles Court House to ? McGavock at Wytheville, VA","T.J. Morrison at Seven Mile Ford [Smyth County] to Stephen McGavock at Wytheville, VA","E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","T.J. Morrison at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chisel (Chiswell), Wythe County VA","L. Click and H.D. Roe at Kingsport TN to S[tephen] McGavock. Mutilated.","Hamilton Sagers, at Drapers Valley [Wythe County] to Stephen McGavock, Wythe County VA","Hallers [?] to Stephen McGavock","John Morrison at Wytheville to S[tephen] McGavock","David F. Kent at Springfield to Stephen McGavock, Ft. Chisel (Chiswell), Wythe [County] VA","John Morrison at Wytheville to [?] McGavock","D. McG[avock] at Harpers Ferry (Jefferson County VA) to Stephen [McGavock]","James A McNutt, at Marion (Smyth County VA) to Stephen [McGavock]","J. Brown Jr. at Richmond to Stephen McGavock President of the office of the Farmers Bank of Virginia at Wytheville.","Habliston and Brother, at Richmond to S[tephen] McGavock","Habliston and Brother, at Richmond, to S[tephen] McGavock","Alfred King, per Thomas H. Lambeth, at Richmond to Stephen McGavock","James M. Bland, at Greensboro to Stephen McGavock","F.H. Mays at Fincastle (Botetourt County) to S[tephen] McGavock","E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock Fort Chiswell","Francis Bell, at Back Creek, to Stephen McGavock","Thomas J. Boyd, at Wythevillem, to Capt. Charles W. Venable, Commissary C.S.A. at Wythevillem, VA. On back of sheet is a note tothe agents of the Assistant Commissary's Office at Wytheville, signed by C.W. Venable 15 November 1864","J.N. Goodwin, General Superintendant of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, at Lynchburg, to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","D. Graham at Cedar Run, VA to E[phraim] McGavock at Wytheville VA","A.M. Kasey to [?] McGavock","Cynthia M.G. Houston, at Natural Bridge (Rockbridge County), to her cousin Stephen [McGavock]","A. Thomas at Holston Mills to S[tephen] McGavock","J.R. Crockett at Max Meadow, to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock.","J.H. Martin at Wytheville to [?] McGavock","R.E. Withers at Lynchburg, to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock, at Max Meadow, Wythe County, VA","Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lee at Lynchburg to Messrs. and Miss McGavock. Declining an invitation.","John M. Hall to Cloid [Cloyd] McGavock","John H. Gibboney at Wytheville, to Stephen McGavock","Williamson McGavock, at the University of Virginia to his uncle [?]","J.F. Kent at Bellfield Mills, to his cousin Stephen McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock","D.C. Kent at Dublin (Pulaski County) to his cousin Stephen McGavock","V.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock","Williamson McGavock at the University of Virginia to his uncle Stephen McGavock","Joseph Cloyd, near Dublin (Pulaski county) to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock","William Gibboney at Wytheville to J.F. Slaughter at Lynchburg, VA introducing Stephen McGavock.","William Gibboney at Wytheville, VA to S.B. Smith, Richmond introducing Stephen McGavock","Crockett and Blair at Wytheville, Wythe County, to Stephen McGavock","J.W. Hagar to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","Joseph F. Kent at Bellfield Mills to Stephen McGavock","Charles L. Fox at Wytheville, VA to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock","W.B. Byars at Glade Spring (Washington County) to [?]","W.A. Smyth at Montgomery to [?]","John W. Robinson at Graham's Ford to Stephen McGavock at Ft. Chiswell VA","Noel and Brown at Wytheville, VA to Stephen McGavock","William Matthews at Dublin [Pulaski County VA] to [?]","A.E. Parker at Wytheville to McGavock and Brother at Fort Chiswell.","Mathew Aiken at Croftsville, Tazwell County, VA to Stephen or Cloyd McGavock","William B. Byars at Glad Spring [Washington County VA] to Stephen McGavock","J.M. Crockett at Philadelphia to Stephen McGavock","J.F. Kent at Kent's Mill, VA to Stephen [McGavock]","John R. Richardson, at Morristown, TN to Stephen McGavock at Max Meadows, Wythe County, VA","A.N. Chiffin to T. Wood","T[?] P. Clap to [?]","Lynch A Currin to S[tephen] McGavock","P. Gaines to James McGavock","Phillip Gaines to James McGavock Jr.","Hugh Graham to [?]","Kate Haller to Mr. [?] McGavock","P[?] P[?] Hanson at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell","William Hill to Stephen McGavock","V.C. Huff to [?] McGavock","V.C. Huff to Stephen McGavock","Margaret Mathews to her brother [?]","D. McGavock to his cousin Stephen McGavock","E[phraim] McGavock to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County VA","Peter Mulholland to Stephen McGavock","Thomas Quirk to Col. W. Crockett","Waller R. Staples at Richmond to Stephen McGavock","A. Tompkins to S[tephen] McGavock","Sarah [?] to her uncle [?]","One unidentified letter","McGavock (?). 59 Pieces including a small book containing an Index to accounts.","1 Piece","3 Pieces","1 Piece","10 Pieces","1 Piece","6 Pieces","1 Piece","Piece","1 Piece","40 Pieces","3 Pieces","1 Piece","1 Piece","1 Piece","1 Piece","5 Pieces","1 Piece","2 Pieces","1 Piece","Receipt for guns issued for the expedition against the Cherokee 1780. 1 Piece Discharge of Thomas Welch, 1776, 1 Piece","Collector of the poor rates 1796.  1 Piece","Tax levies and clerk's fees 1760-1793. 15 Pieces Other invoices and receipts 1761-1811. 77 Pieces","Scope and Contents","A 1779 Manuscript Volume containing the following: parish levies, receipts from supplies issued to public stores for use during the expedition against the Cherokee, 1776. receipts for supplies for troops at Fort Patrick Henry, 1776-1777; and a manuscript arithmetic. 250 Pages, 8\"x7\" See also folders 5 and 10.","Receipts and certificates of service issued by James McGavock, Ensign, Wythe County Militia. 1791-1792. 25 Pieces","Lead mines in Wythe County, 1810-1833. 53 Pieces including 9 Letters Saltpeter receipts 1814-1815.  33 Pieces including 5 Letters","Tax levies and Clerk's fees 1800-1836. 66 Pieces Other Invoices and receipts. 1791-1836. 86 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees 1838-1866.  29 Pieces Accounts, receipts, and memoranda 1834-1848.  22 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees, 1831-1837.  12 Pieces Other invoices and receipts, 1820-1839.  57 Pieces","Tax levies and Clerk's fees, 1847-1851.  6 Pieces","Accounts, Receipts, and Memoranda of Stephen McGavock, executor of the Estate of James McGavock and guardian of Mary, Jane, and Sarah McGavock","Letters from Agnes L. McGavock, aferwards Agnes L. Richardson, widow of James McGavock to his executor Stephen McGavock concerning certain matters regarding the estate.  7 Pieces","Letter from Andrew S. Fulton, at Wytheville to Stephen McGavock at Fort Chiswell [Wythe] concerning dower rights. 1 Piece","Letters from John R. Richardson, at Cedar Hill to Stephen McGavock, Fort Chiswell, Wythe, VA, concerning arbitration of the estate. 2 Pieces.","Statement of lead delivered by the County Lieutenants. 1 Piece","60 Pieces","164 Pieces","20 Pieces","26 Pieces","28 Pieces","35 Pieces","1 Piece","8 Pieces","13 Pieces","1 Piece","6 Pieces","8 Pieces","1 Piece","3 Pieces","626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","626 Pieces.  This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","626 Pieces. This collection of accounts is divided between folders 12, 13, and 14","505 Pieces divided between folders 15 and 16.","505 Pieces divided between folders 15 and 16.","2 PIeces","24 Pieces","Accounts of Stephen, Cloyd, William, Cynthia, Polly, and Betsey McGavock. 1 Piece","7 Pieces","Includes a statement of he cause of deathe of William McGavock as wel as a memorandum book (small but not a volume). 17 Pieces total.","2 Pieces","Includes one memorandum book. 116 Pieces","179 Pieces","Fee bills of the County Clerks, 19 pieces.","Fee bills of the County Clerk. 3 Pieces","Fee bills of the county Clerks and Tax bills, 240 Pieces","1 Piece","Fee bills of the county clerk and sheriff. 2 Pieces","Fee bills of the County Clerk. 4 Pieces","Fee bills of the clerk and sheriff. 2 Pieces","Fee bills of the county clerk and sheriff, and tax bills. 50 Pieces","9 Pieces","9 Pieces","John Allison. Survey of a tract of land sold to C.C. Tate. 3 Pieces","Scope and Contents","Papers relating to a tract of land in Wythe County, Virginia, called \"Anchor and Hope\". 7 Pieces","copy of a survey of a portion of a Revolutionary land grant made to Moses Austin, Wythe County, Virginia (1795); and a legal opinion of David McComas (1833) concerning the claim of David Graham to a portion of the land included in the grant. 2 Pieces","Letter of Stephen and Moses Austin and Samuel Paine to Beverley Randolf, Governor of Virginia. Copy of a bond for the repayment of 20 tonnes of lead. 1 Piece","Letter of Henry Banks to William Whitcroft. Copy of the court record of a deed to a tract of land in Montgomery County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Agreement for the sale of a tract of land in Wythe county, Virginia to Mary Graham and William Graham. 1 Piece","Suit in Wythe County. 1 Piece","David Carnut, assignee of Colin Campbell, assignee of John Lathem. Copy of the record of a Revolutionary land claim in Montgomery County. David Carnute, assignee of James newell, assignee of robert Love. Copy of the record of a revolutionary land claim. Both are on one sheet.","John Carter to Joseph Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece","Carter, Crockett, and Thomas Herbert to Robert and Walter Colquohoun. Bond. 1 Piece","Will of Alexander N. Chaffin, of Wythe County, VA. 1 Piece","Lease of a tract of land in Wythe County known as Boiling Spring, to Costilo Hill. 1 Piece","Lease of a tract of land in Wythe County known as Boiling Spring to Isaac Sulander. 1 Piece","Agreement of the sale of a tract of land in Monk's Corner, to Conrad Keesling. 1 piece","Papers relating to the division of Abram Crockett's lands in Williamson County, Tennessee. 3 Pieces","Survey and description of James Crockett's Mountain orchard. 1 Piece","Power of attorney authorizing Alexander Ewing to transfer to David McGavock a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 piece","power of attorney authorizing randal McGavock to sell a tract of land in Sumner County, Tennessee. 1 Piece","James Crockett to James R. Kent. Bill of sale of a Negro girl. 1 Piece","James Crockett and Robert Sayers to William Galt.  Bond.  1 Piece.","Survey of a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Quirk. Bill of sale of a Negro boy. 1 Piece","Robert Dougherty, executor of Michael Dougherty to David McGavock.  Power of attorney authorizing the conveyance of certain tracts of land to David Love, John Craiger and William Chistle, assignee of John Bentley.  1 Piece.  Mutilated","Survey and plats of a tract of land in Davidson County, Tennessee. 1 Piece","Suit","Agreement of Samuel Graham and Nathaniel Crockett and othersconcerning the settling of the estate of Robert Graham. 3 Pieces","Henry Hufford to James E. Brown. Trust deed covering a tract of land in Preston County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Suit in washington [County] District Court. 2 pieces","Suit in Botetourt County.  2 Pieces","Two surveys made for David Love.  1 piece","Bond","Bond. 1 Piece","Suit in Botetourt County, Virginia. 1 Piece","Statement made in Caswell County, North Carolina, in regards to the unaauthorized sale of his property.  1 Piece","Suit","Suit in Grayson County, Virginia. David McGavock vs. Stephen Saunders, administrator of James Ewing. 1 Piece","Deed to a tract of land i Wythe County, Virginia, sold by Samuel Crockett and wife to Ephraim, Stephen, and Joseph C. McGavock. Not Signed. 1 Piece","Assignment of a tract of land. 1 piece","Receipt for payment made by James McGavock for the purchase of William Gillaspe's land. 1 piece.","Bond given to James McGavock to insure compliance with his agreement for the delivery of Aluminum Salt at Fort Chiswell. 1 Piece","Bond for the performance of his duties as undersheriff. 1 Piece","Settlement proposed by the arbitrators to be made by James McGavock with Samuel and Elizabeth McDowell, administrators of James McDowell.  2 Pieces","Suit in Augusta County.  1 Piece","Papers concerning lands conveyed to James McGavock by military and treasury warrants. 2 Pieces","Bond given to James McGavock to secure a debt and to secure the payment of interest due on a tract of land sold to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Memorandum of an agreement concerning the division of the Sheriff's duties and renumeration in Botetourt County.  Bond given by James McGavock as Sheriff, and bond given by Francis Smith and William preston to James McGavock.  3 Pieces.","Bond given by James McGavock as collector of the parish levy, Botetourt County. 1 Piece","Bond given by john floyd and James Thompson to James McGavock for collection of a parish levy. 1 piece","Transfer of a certificate for a tract of land in Williamson County, Tennessee.  1 Piece","James Crockett to James McGavock. Trust deed covering three tracts of land in Wythe County, VA, including the mountain or orchard tract and a portion of Purgatory Tract","Agreement for the sale of a tract of land to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Leases granted by James McGavock to Zaceriah Hurt. 2 pieces","Zaceriah Hurt to James Ward, trustee for James McGavock. Chattel mortgage. 2 pieces","Attachment upon Zaceriah Hurt in favor of James McGavock. 1 Piece","Suit, 1 Piece","Copy of a deed to a tract of land in Wythe county. 1 Piece","Bills of sale for Negroes sold to James McGavock. 8 Pieces","Bills of sale of negroes.  2 Pieces","Survey of a division line between the lands of the heirs of James McGavock Sr., and the heirs of James McGavock Jr. 1 Piece","A memorandum of stray cattle taken by James McGavock at Fort Chiswell. 1 piece","Suit in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Plat, description and receipt of payment for certain tracts of land sold by Samuel Graham to James McGavock. 3 Pieces","Assignment of a tract of land.  1 Piece","Trust deed covering two tracts of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Articles of agreement and bond for the sale by James Mcgavock to David and James Magill, of a plantation in Rockbridge County, VA.  5 Pieces","Referees' decision in a dispute with James McGavock. 1 Piece","Surveyor's plat of a tract of land sold by Joseph Ramsey to James McGavock. 1 Piece","Suit in Botetourt County. 1 Piece","Bond to insure delivery of the indenture of John Myers, an indentured servant sold to James McGavock by Samuel Smith and others. 1 piece","Trust deed covering certain real estate in Stephensburg and a memorandum concerning the property. 2 Pieces","Bill of sale for Negroes sold to James McGavock. 4 pieces","Memorandum of an agreement for farm work to be done by Adams.  1 Piece","Bill of sale of a Negro boy. 1 Piece","Lease granted to Alexander Fisher. Mutilated. 1 Piece","Agreement concerning the sale to Stephen McGavock of an interest in a plantation. 1 Piece","Receipt for money paid for a tract of land. 1 Piece","Bond to insure delivery of a good title to a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, sold to Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 1 Piece","Agreement to give possession of a certain plantation to Stephen and Joseph Cloyd McGavock. 1 Piece.","Receipt for money paid for a tract of land.  1 Piece","George Archer, 1852, 1 piece Harrison Archer, 1867, 1 Piece William D. Archer, 1867-72, 3 Pieces John Maybe, 1866, 1 Piece George A. Shoemaker, 1866, 1 Piece P.C. Taylor, 1866, 1 Piece Pleasant C. Taylor, 1866, 1 piece","Farm labor agreements of Stephen and Cloyd McGavock. 3 pieces","Survey of 40 acres of land conveyed to an unnamed person. 1 Piece","Comission of John T. Sayers and Francis J. Carter to receive the acknowledgement of Daniel Miller's wife of his deed to James Crockett, conveying a tract of land in Wythe County, VA. 1 piece","Survey of a tract of land belonging to R. Montgomery.  1 piece","Surveys of tracts of land made for William Montgomery, Josiah Ramsey, and Abner Bledsoe.  1 Piece","Survey of a tract of land in Wythe County, VA, conveyed by Robert Norris to Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece","Deed to a tract of land in Wythe County. 1 Piece","Survey of land deeded to James and Andrew Crockett. 1 Piece","Surveyor's plat of a tract of land sold by james Thompson, agent for R. Price. 1 piece","Court orders regarding public roads. 2 Pieces","Memorandum of two tracts of land in Wythe Couny, VA, surveyed for Josiah Ramsey. 1 Piece","Legal opinion on the proper procedure in a sale of land by [?] McGavock to [?] Sawyers.  1 piece","Suits against Abraham Reynolds for debt.  Wythe County, VA.  19 pieces","Transfer if a lease on a tract of land called Crocketts Forge, in Wythe County. 1 piece","Suit in Wythe County.  1 piece","Surveys and plats of land in Burk's Garden, Tazwell County, VA, belonging to Colonel Robert Sayers.  4 Pieces","Suit in Wythe County, 1 piece","Description of a tract of land in Montgomery County, surveyed for David Sloan. 1 Piece","Bill of sale of a negro boy. 1 Piece","Suit for debt. 1 Piece","Agreement with Patrick Henry, Walter Crockett, James McCorkle, Thomas Madison, and James McGavock; concerning the mining of iron. 1 Piece","Suit in Wythe County.  1 Piece","Agreement for the erection of a grist mill.  1 Piece","Copy of a warrant for Richard Woods. 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