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Prayer book and 4 page Policy of Insurance from the Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia at Winchester from 1853 Virginia Confederate Bond Coupon 1864 Several Engraved Rewards of Merit for the Children from the 1840s-1860s Nice License for Private Entertainment by Charles B Modesitt 1860 Handwritten note for the Election of 1853, listing all the votes fro Congress, Senate and House from Price's Mill, Brintz's Mill, Mohler's Mille, Honeyville, Springfield, Rileysville, Oakham and Luray with Armstrong, Butler, Faulkner, Buswell, Keyser and Spitter all running for office Small Printed Broadside of the Faculty of Jefferson College from 1849 Documents dealing with the death and estate of James Modesitt from 1827."],"title_filing_ssi":"Accounts","title_ssm":["Accounts"],"title_tesim":["Accounts"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1825-1850"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1825/1850"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Accounts"],"component_level_isim":[1],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"collection_ssim":["Booton-Modesitt Family Papers"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"level_ssm":["File"],"level_ssim":["File"],"sort_isi":12,"parent_access_restrict_tesm":["Collection is open to all researchers. 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Prayer book and 4 page Policy of Insurance from the Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia at Winchester from 1853 Virginia Confederate Bond Coupon 1864 Several Engraved Rewards of Merit for the Children from the 1840s-1860s Nice License for Private Entertainment by Charles B Modesitt 1860 Handwritten note for the Election of 1853, listing all the votes fro Congress, Senate and House from Price's Mill, Brintz's Mill, Mohler's Mille, Honeyville, Springfield, Rileysville, Oakham and Luray with Armstrong, Butler, Faulkner, Buswell, Keyser and Spitter all running for office Small Printed Broadside of the Faculty of Jefferson College from 1849 Documents dealing with the death and estate of James Modesitt from 1827.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Confederate Bond Coupon from 1864 Small Broadside for selling the business of Robert Modesitt, selling the entire stock 1850s 18 page account book for items including Hog Skins, Squirrel Skins, Sheep Skins and other items from 1834 Small Account Book/Ledger including clothing items from 1835 2 Page Handwritten Poem written by John Booton 1844 at Luray Academy Diary of Charles Modisett as a Teacher of the Public White School in the Springfield District from 1880, including enrollment, attendance, ages of kids, along with a selection of his notes as teacher. Prayer book and 4 page Policy of Insurance from the Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia at Winchester from 1853 Virginia Confederate Bond Coupon 1864 Several Engraved Rewards of Merit for the Children from the 1840s-1860s Nice License for Private Entertainment by Charles B Modesitt 1860 Handwritten note for the Election of 1853, listing all the votes fro Congress, Senate and House from Price's Mill, Brintz's Mill, Mohler's Mille, Honeyville, Springfield, Rileysville, Oakham and Luray with Armstrong, Butler, Faulkner, Buswell, Keyser and Spitter all running for office Small Printed Broadside of the Faculty of Jefferson College from 1849 Documents dealing with the death and estate of James Modesitt from 1827."],"_nest_path_":"/components#11","timestamp":"2026-05-21T03:42:57.932Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8478","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8478","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8478","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8478","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_8478.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Booton-Modesitt Family Papers","title_ssm":["Booton-Modesitt Family Papers"],"title_tesim":["Booton-Modesitt Family Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["circa 1809-1880","1820-1850"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1820-1850"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["circa 1809-1880"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. Acc. 2009.570","/repositories/2/resources/8478"],"text":["Mss. Acc. 2009.570","/repositories/2/resources/8478","Booton-Modesitt Family Papers","Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century","Luray (Va.)--History--19th century","Presidents--United States--Election--1848","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","United States--History--Mexican War, 1845-1848","Account books","Broadsides","Exercise books","Financial records","Invitations","Invoices","Letters (correspondence)","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.","Papers of the Modesitt-Booton families of Luray, Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to Lucy Marye of Luray, Virginia who married James Modesitt in 1815. She was widowed in 1827 and remarried James Booton in 1830. Lucy was born to Peter and Eleanor Marye and was sister to William Staige Marye, who is considered one of the founders of Luray, Virginia Also included are letters by John Booton and others relating to slavery and politics, children's copy books, account books, a broadside, invoices, legal contracts and documents.","All of the following, description and excerpts, was provided by the seller and has not been verified: \"The archive of Lucy Marye of Luray, Virginia who married James Modesitt in 1815, who died in 1827, Lucy then married James Booton in 1830. (1809-1880 with the large majority of items being from the 1820s-1850s). Lucy was born to Peter and Eleanor Marye and was sister to William Staige Marye, who is considered one of the founders of Luray, Virginia.  ","Included are copy books by the children, Sarah, Wyatt Stage and others, from the 1840s and 1850s. They range from a few pages to several with around 70 pages. They are all handwritten and have areas for copying the same line over and over again along with other areas for class notes and exercises. ","Confederate Bond Coupon from 1864 ","Small Broadside for selling the business of Robert Modisett, selling the entire stock 1850s ","18 page account book for items including Hog Skins, Squirrel Skins, Sheep Skins and other items from 1834 ","Small Account Book/Ledger including clothing items from 1835 ","2 Page Handwritten Poem written by John Booton 1844 at Luray Academy Diary of Charles Modisett as a Teacher of the Public White School in the Springfield District from 1880, including enrollment, attendance, ages of kids, along with a selection of his notes as teacher. ","Invoices many several pages long some for medical items from Jonas Crane, a doctor in the area, some for blacksmith work, several for work on shoes and clothes Receipts including slave tax receipts Indentures and Deeds for land and property ","Several Large Fold Lists of Land Grants ","Some Books and Journals including New England Primer from the 1830s and 1840s Prayer book and hymnal ","Group of 15 Circulars for the Commissioner of Revenue for Virginia from the 1840s and 1850s, they belonged to Charles Modesitt who was the Commissioner in Page County ","4 page Policy of Insurance from the Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia at Winchester from 1853 ","Virginia Confederate Bond Coupon ","1864 Several Engraved Rewards of Merit for the Children from the 1840s-1860s ","Nice License for Private Entertainment by Charles B Modesitt ","1860 Handwritten note for the Election of 1853, listing all the votes from Congress, Senate and House from Price's Mill, Brintz's Mill, Mohler's Mille, Honeyville, Springfield, Rileysville, Oakham and Luray with Armstrong, Butler, Faulkner, Buswell, Keyser and Spitter all running for office ","Small Printed Broadside of the Faculty of Jefferson College from 1849 ","Documents dealing with the death and estate of James Modesitt from 1827","Handwritten Invitation to John and Robert to attend a social party at the Washington House in Luray, signed by all the managers ","1845 Letters The majority are 3-4 pages long. Interesting group of letters from G Gordon, who was a cousin. They were from Honeyville, Virginia to Luray from the 1830s","Letters from Hawksbill, Virginia from William R Almond, a well known businessman in Page County from the 1820s ","Letters from her son while he was at school at Jefferson Medical College from 1849-1853 ","Letters from her son, Robert Modesitt, as he traveled and started his business in Pennsylvania 1840s. ","Letters from Lucy Gordon from 1840 from Slate Mills, Virginia ","A few letters from James Modesitt to Lucy 1810s ","A few letters from Lucy to her children\" \"There are two literary societies composed of the students of the college. They meet once a week and in rotation have lectures, compositions, and a debate. I am a member of the largest one, the Adelphian, and last night I spoke two rounds on the debate. The first time I ever made a speech. The question for debate was this. Can a government be perpetuated which is not founded on a religion?\" \"I have one important matter to communicate and that is that I am going to be married in May unless something strange, very strange, turns up. I hope you are willing to trust my judgment in the selection of a companion for life. I think my choice is a prudent and happy one and one that cannot fail to please you. I am sure if you love me or any child you have, you will love her. I wish you could see her.\" \"I saw this morning an account of another battle fought between the Americans and the Mexicans which lasted sometime. During the action, lieut. Thomas Jordan and many other gallant officers were wounded. I reckon Mr. Jordan will be much grieved to hear that his son has happened to such a sad accident but it will be of some consolation to him to think that it was done in defense of his country. Brid. Gen. Joshua Howe of this place received orders from the president this morning to call together the militia of this country and march to the field of battle on the 22nd of June. I would like to know if there is any likelihood of many being taken away from Luray.\" \"We have had a warm political contest here but all is lost. JK Polk will certainly be president of the US. I am disappointed beyond measure. I could not have believed he could have beaten our gallant old Harry, but it is all over, and we must make the best of it.\" \"I was a little surprised last Thursday morning when I got up to discover an attempt to break in the store during the night. They bored holes with an anger through the door next to the street with the intention to get out the key, I suppose, but they did not succeed. They were scared off by the watchmen. If they had gotten in, I think they would have met with rather a warm reception. I did not hear them as I sleep upstairs, but if they had come up there, I had the thing that would have made them get out a little quicker than they got in. There seems to be a gang of villains about here for awhile. They have attempted to fire buildings and do other mischief. One rouge has been safely lodged in jail for breaking in a store in Parkersburg, Virginia and robbed it of $200.\" \"The honorable James Buchanan passed through here last Monday and made a short speech to the students. I was very well pleased both with the speech and the man. One does not see any of the outward peculiarities which are sometimes taken for characteristics of greatness, except indeed the deep cunning expressed by his eyes or the sharpness and prominence of the chin.\" \"I hope Daniel Kibler's letter has not put Charlie in the notion of going to the West. I suppose from what he says that his father has taken up some government or vacant land, as it is called.\" \"The University of Virginia receives an annuity of $15,000 from the state and one of the conditions on which is receives it is that there shall be one student from every congressional district from the state educated free of charge for tuition and boarding. I could perhaps get in there from the Paige District, but it would make me feel a little too degraded to be educated at the expense of the state. Besides, the Virginia University is one of the best, if not the very best, college in the United States.\" Letter from Port Gibson, Mississippi from Mary Marye describing her life from 1848. \"We stayed in Washington city until 5:00 Saturday evening. We went to the president's house, the public grounds, the Washington Monument, the Equestrian Statue of Jackson, the Capitol, the Patent Office. I enclose a five dollar note which I got from Mr. Grove. It turns out to be counterfeit.\" \"I received a letter from Dr. Rust some weeks ago. He offers me two fifths of his practice if I will go in to co-partnership with him in the spring. I answered it not accepting positively his offer, though I think it is not unlikely that I will.\" \"Did you see Belle Austin's husband while you were in Uniontown? He is a whopper. Considerably over six feet. I saw a catalog of the Steubenville Seminary a few days ago which had the name of Margret Thompson from Luray, Virginia in it. Pray, who is she? Is she Dr. Thompson's daughter? The seminary is only a days ride from this place.\" \"I have heard alarms of fire every night since I have been here. The first night I got here there was a fire very near in sight of my window besides three others. The town seemed to be in commotion all night. I have gotten along from the time I left home. I will give you first and account from the day I left. The first day I went to Shenandoah Furnace. The next day I went to Harrisonburg and the next day to New Market where I remained until Wednesday. I walked from New Market to Mount Jackson, seven miles. It was not the day for the stage when I left New Market.\" \"I suppose you will wonder what brought me here. I will answer that. It was through the improper intimacy of the young man that was here with a very respectable young lady. In order to keep out of trouble, he left this place last Sunday for parts unknown. He did not go without the knowledge of brother Robert. He has always acted highly honorable with him.\" Letters from Lucy Booton to her children from Slatevilles, Virginia. Letter to Dr F.W.G. Thomas, who became a well known physician in Missouri looking for employment from 1852 Nice letter from Rockingham with a nice folk art drawing of a bird with a branch at the top of the letter Great letter from James to Lucy a few months before they were married in 1815, \"I have purchased my Brother's blacksmith's and expect to start out to fetch them in on Wednesday next. I am making preparation to settle in Luray. I find that I shall get sufficient employ in my line of business and a great supply of work for my smiths. I believe it will be far more advantageous to me to live in town than out in the neighborhood as I cannot do anything at farming with my present force.my desire for your precious company is great tho I cannot see you now, only in mind, as soon after I return from the Allegany if possible I shall visit you, you may look for me on the Saturday before the fourth Sunday in the present month.\" Letter from James to Lucy from 1820, \"Business goes on well, Rose is very attentive doing her best to please her mistress, when she comes home. She is very attentive to the children. I think my dear it will be very convenient after I come from the Ohio State for you to visit our mother again before Christmas..truly, truly your till death Jas Modesitt\" \"I have sent a vial of spirits of Mendereri, you will please give cousin Lucy a teaspoon full every hour, when she seems feverish, until her skin becomes moist, I have also sent some creamer tartar she can use to make the magueria operate should it not operate without\" \"She seems to decline fast but she does not appear to suffer much severe paint often. Dr Henkel's medicine weakened her very fast while taking to Dr Kim came in to see her and advised her together with Dr Crane to discontinue the use of it\" \"Cousin Jno Booton wrote to me a few weeks ago saying that Dr Rust was desirous that I should return in the spring to practice with him.I don't know what to say about it. I shall write to John asking what share Dr Rust is willing to give and how long he proposes the partnership should last. This will give me time to hear from you on the subject.\" \"I sent by him one dozen bottles of McMunn's Elixir of opium for Lucy. It will help to control her cough and whenever she requires an opiate whether in the shape of Laudaman Panegone, Black Drop, Morphia, or Solid Opium\" \"On Friday last Samuel S Austin brother of Mary, was killed on the hill this side of Brownsville, by the bursting of a wall swivel, that is a Mexican gun made of brass and weighing between 100 and 125 pounds. A piece of it about 10 inches long and 1 inch thick struck him in the abdoment or rather his thigh and mashed the hip bone, throwing clear out a part of the joint nearly as large as the half of a hen's egg and tearing out his entrails.He had gone down the Ohio river to Wheeling to meet the volunteers from this county just returning from Mexico\" \"The other accident resulted in the death of a little boy a few days previous to that. He was the son of Mr Peter Kremer of this place and was hanging with his hands to the coupling pole of a wagon and the driver not knowing he was there stopped and commenced backing the wagon, when the little boy fell and the wheel passed right over his neck, breaking it and causing instant death,\" \"I was going to write to you last Sunday but as Gen Taylor was expected to pass through here this week. I put it off in order to give you an account of his reception and description of his person. He arrived here yesterday evening at 7 precisely and remained over night. A large concourse of citizens met him about a mile from town and escorted him to the Clinton House in an open carriage. He was welcomed to the town in a short speech by E.P. Oliphant, to which he replied in a speech of about three to five minutes..It seems that everybody had got it into their noggins that he was a large man, consequently they were disappointed to find him a small one\" Letter from Madison County from 1833 to James Booton, \"Dear Sir I am informed by Mr Thomas Clore that you wish to purchase a farm on this side of the mountain. I have a small one. I will sell on accommodating terms the tract contains 137 acres, it is on the south side of the Robison River\" \"I was very busy for a while after Mr Fetzer left here for Wheeling. You said in your letter that Doctor Robertson has sold his farm to David Kibler for $900 and has moved to the West. I don't recollect any David Kibler unless he is a son of old Philip Kibler.\" \"Emily is to be married next month, Mrs Ruby has left him, he has treated her very badly. Mr D brought her home to live, She is going to apply for a divorce, be kind enough to burn this letter.\" \"I thought I would wait until we heard from our election. We gave a small vote to what it should have been, about 750 majority where it out the have been 1150 Scott Vote in page\" \"You said in your letter that Uncle James Marye had just gone home from Mothers, he must be getting younger instead of older if he can stand so many fatiguing journeys across the ridge.\" \"We have a had a great deal of wet, The National road has been in a horrid condition, all winter, it is getting a little better now. You have a nice set of candidates for the Senate, I must confess. The county candidates will do a little better.\" \"There is an old colonel by the name of Semaroski lecturing on Napoleon Bonaparte he served under Napoleon in the French war, 23 years. He has been in 202 battles he has a very large scar from his mouth to his ear and a very large lump on his side where he was wounded with a cannonball. He is also a minister of the Gospel a Lutheran by profession.He was born in Poland and educated in France and moved to Indiana after the French Revolution\" \"We had a grand illumination of the town about a week ago in celebration of the surrender of the city of Vera Cruz.Capt S.S. Austin has just ? From Mexico, he went about 3 months ago by himself but afterwards joined the 3rd artillery and served as 1st Lieutenant in the attack on Vera Cruz.\" \"He has a prospect of selling out here too and if he does I think he will go to Missouri probably after that concern is closed in Baltimore. His business calls him to Missouri now for two or three weeks.Say nothing about this out of the Family for he does not wish it mentioned to any person I know.\" \"Since the treaty with Mexico has been concluded a great number of soldiers going home passed through this place. The most of them looked the worse for the war, there were several distinguished officers of high rank among them, that that I saw were, General Pillow, Quitman, Cadwalder and last but not least Major General William Butler of Kentucky, the Democratic Candidate for Vice President.\" \"General Patterson and Shields also went through here but I did not see them..The Whigs and Democrats both have polls up. The Whig pole is 210 feet high...There was a discussion at the Whig Pole on Friday night between AJ Ogle and J.S. Dawson, the former the Whig Candidate for Congress and the latter the Democratic one for the same office\" \"I see by the newspapers that the Democrats have done the thing up brown at the election in the Old Dominion. As far as heard from they have already a majority of seven over what they had in the last legislature. How is it in Page, is Boswell or Keyser elected?\" \"I start for the West in the morning but not very far, yet my trip will be longer, I fear than will be entirely pleasant to me. I have hope of getting back before 1st April, will be much pleased to be disappointed to the contrary. My trip west from which I have just returned, was a pleasant one with the exception of cold weather. I experienced a river severe time crossing the Alleghany Mountains\" Nice letter from L.C. Marye from Fredericksburg, 1845, \"Aunt Lucy, You will please inform me what were the movements of your father during the Revolution of our country, if you have any information on this please inform me.\" \"The expectation of a war with Mexico has caused great excitement and go where you will almost you will find that the subject of their discussion, in fact the surgeon of the Union Town Companies have had a great many applicants under pretence of different diseases to try to get off from going to war\" \"I am going to school at Madison College, do not let the word College deceive you any person would naturally suppose that it was a large flourishing institution but they would be wonderfully mistaken. For it is nothing to be compared with the Luray Academy when it was under the admirable superintendence of G.W. Grayson or Bandylegs as we used to call him.\" \"We were detained at Harpers Ferry nearly two days and saw a great many curiosities there, one of which was the U States armory, a great curiosity indeed\" \"I saw your cousin, J.K. Booton last Tuesday, I believe he was in usual health. He is now captain of the company that your father had the command of before his decease\" \"much more tedious journey than we anticipated I saw a great many strange things at least strange to me. Among them was the railroad and steam cars in operation by being thrown off the road from the fact of the North River being past fording we were compelled to go ten miles out of our way or lay by at Frankfort until the next day, that was a dreadful days travel, a most wretched road from Frankfort to Cumberland\" \"Rob's little boy, Austin got kicked by a horse about ten days ago and had his collar bone broken. It still had to be fastened to its place but he does not complain of it hurting him any and is running about as if nothing unusual had happened to him. He is one of the boldest and most reckless boys I ever saw.\" \"I would recommend this plan to him, to leave Luray Friday morning on horseback in time to get to New Market for the stages going from Winchester to Staunton in the day time..stay all night and leave at day light for the Rockbridge Alum Springs and get here Saturday evening, I suppose if he were to come by Lexington he would possibly find the connection between the stages a little better.\" \"Robert and all his family are well. He had Lucy's and Austin's Daguerreotypes taken a few days ago\" \"Several families from Dage County have passed through here going West, within the last week or two among them were William Wood, Washington Ruffner, and old Mr Varner going home from Ohio. Has the company that started from Luray a few days before I did, get back yet?.The widow and children of Sam Austin came back here last night from Philadelphia where she went after his death to see her mother\" \"There has been a good deal of excitement here since the election and it seems that the Whigs have beat the Democrats in this state and the Democrats had beat the Whigs in Ohio.Great efforts will be made by each party to carry this state in November for President\" \"There was arrested yesterday and taken to jail a man by the name of Thomas Evans for the murder of Hayden Bliss on 19th of November 1845. After this fatal affray Evans says he went to Ohio but feeling uneasy and uncomfortable there he thought it would be better for him to return home. We are told he made no resistance to the officer who arrested him but quietly and peaceably submitted to his control and direction. Evans says he did it in self defense. He murdered him by chopping Blisses head in a horrid manner with a corn cutter. The murdered man was a brother in law of the murderer.\" \"I left your overshoes at the Post Office at New Market to be returned to you, I will send those Saddlebags and Overcoat in Roberts Trunk\" \"We arrived here on the 4th of the month being detained by the snow two days at Harpers Ferry. I was in the United States Armory at the Ferry it was a great curiosity to me indeed to see more than three hundred person employed in making guns.\" \"I felt like jumping up and cracking my heels together when I heard that Colb of Georgia was elected speaker of the house and then the Chairmen of all the important committees in the senate are pro-slavery men. Such a triumph of the south puts the abolitionist about here considerably down in the mouth. What do you think of the President's Message, I think it small potatoes\" \"I wish he had been here last Sunday Morning to witness the departure of the Fayette County Volunteers for Mexico, it was an imposing sight.\" \"Your Turnpike affair seems to be looking up. Perhaps when I visit Page again I shall have the pleasure of crossing the Massanutten Mountains in the stage. I suppose Stage will have an opportunity for making some money by it and there is no doubt but that he will improve it\" \"The people here are very apprehensive of the cholera, none has occurred in town yet, but there have been several cases at the poor house, a good many deaths by cholera have taken place in Brownsville.\" \"I suppose you have heard of the steam boat explosion here last week. It was a melancholy thing indeed, there was at the time and since died from injuries, twenty-six or seven persons. The boat was entirely new and was about to make a short trip for trial and had not left shore fifty yards when the boiler burst and made the dreadful destruction of life, there was eighty-two persons on board and only fifteen escaped unhurt\" \"I suppose you are now acting sheriff and a laborious job you have of it no doubt. The duties of the officer in Virginia are much greater than they are here. The Sheriffs in Penn have no taxes to collect\" \"I was on a tour in the West. I wrote him from Wheeling, I left Wheeling on Sunday in the Steam Boat Messenger and arrived here about 12 yesterday. I leave here this evening for Nashville, Tennessee on the steam boat, Martha.\" Nice letter from Louisville, Kentucky while traveling \"The woman arrested sometime ago for killing the Watchman, has been tried and acquitted on the ground that she committed the murder in Self-Defense. Charles Austin, Marye's Brother, was to be tried for seduction and breach of promise of marriage but the case was compromised before it came into court by his Father paying the girl's father five hundred and fifty dollars. Another girl sued Skiles Austin for a case of the same nature.The male portion of that family have turned out badly\" \"This is a day of sad gloom in our town. The Cholera in its most malignant form commenced its savages here yesterday. I think the first occurred about 8 AM and died about noon. Since that time 7 have died and there are others that are sick that may terminate fatally. It is so far confined to one street principally non having occurred but in the vicinity of that street.The gloom and alarm here you can hardly conceive, many have left town and many more I think will leave.\" \"I have got about 5 or 6 hundred silk worms which keep me very busy of mornings and evenings feeding them and shifting them on fresh leaves. I feed them on the natural mulberry and James William on the Morus Multicaulis. My worms appear to grow faster than his.\" Nice letter from James to Lucy from 1825 \"Peter set of for Columbia, 6th of this month he went from here to Culpeper intending to take the stage and go on immediately but when he got there it was gone.He then took the stage and went to Orange CH where he intended to take the Fredericksburg and Charlottesville Stage but when it arrived it was so crowded that he could not get a seat.he therefore directed his trunk to be sent on to Charlottesville and set off on foot he walked to Gordonsville 10 miles to breakfast.Mechanicsville 6 miles to dinner then to MacCauley's tavern\" \"He hired 2 horses and a boy to carry him to Silmington 12 miles then to Columbia which waqs 9 miles, he walked, he got there Sunday evening.He got on board a boat loaded with tobacco bound to Richmond and went 12 miles by way of the river to Cartersville\" \"1824 Slave Document being an appraisal and dividing up of 21 Slaves, they are all named in the document.\" \"Interesting document from 1824 being a 3 page complaint about a slave that was hired for a year threatening to run away with her husband. Her husband actually comes and demands that he sell her back to the previous owner or she will runaway, it's really interesting. Letter from John Booton while at college from 1850 \"The Niggers are very numerous here and very important. A few evenings since a big black fellow who thought himself as good as anybody undertook to make some students here from Kentucky and some of the other slave states, get out of his road. The even convinced him he had waked up the wrong passengers. They gave the negro a little the soundest cudgeling he ever had. The whole body of the negroes became outraged at this and armed themselves with guns, pistols, bowie knives, axes, and clubs swearing vengeance on the white fellows that whipped their colored brother and if the rest of the students came to their assistance, prepared for a general battle.they did not proceed to violence but contented themselves by getting out warrants for the arrest of the students concerned in the affray.Some think the disturbance will not end here but that during the coming vacation while a good many of the students are at home the negroes will attempt to overpower those that remain here. All I can say is that if they do there will be blood spilled. The blacks are nearly all armed. To make the matter worse a good many of the inhabitants take sides with the niggers. How I despise such people. I have hardly benevolence enough to wish them a happy hereafter.I have never had any difficulty with the blacks or their white allies and hope I shall not have.\" Letter from John Booton from 1851 about runaway Virginia slaves and the battle that ensued over them being arrested and the free blacks and abolitionists that get involved and ready to fight for them, really fantastic: \"We had a great excitement here last Monday on account of the arrest of some runaway negroes from Virginia. There were warrants issued for the arrest of five fugitives. Two of them were taken at Robstown on the Loughegheny River, but the free blacks and abolitionists raised a mob, rescued the slaves and cut some of the officers. Two others were arrested in Brownsville and after creating a good deal of excitement were brought to Uniontown for trial. After they had been lodged in jail news came that there was a considerable body of armed negroes headed by one or two abolitionists coming from Brownsville to attempt a rescue. In hearing this the sheriff ordered out the military to maintain the laws. A part of the darkies reported to be coming, come in town one at a time. Finding the soldiers ready and anxious for a fight they left town without ceremony. Money was raised to indemnify the owners and the slaves set at liberty.\" 1855 Letter from Criglersville to Luray \"Mr Lindsay has two negroes with the fever, bad cases, I attend to them and go there every other day. It is seven miles from here. He is the first man in the county that gave me substantial encouragement. He says he has more confidence in the over the ridge doctors than he has in those about here. They are dangerously ill but if I can cure them and I think I can it will be a strong spoke in my wheel\" Letter from Charles Modisett from Page County 1860 \"James W Modesitt Sheriff of page County on the 6th day of July last and enclosed a copy of each together with a list of Free Negroes and transmitted them by mail to your office\" A document from Charles Modesitt from Page County from 1857 that includes listing the number of Free Negroes in the town at 3 cents each, there were 48 at the time Letter from William Almond from Hawksbill to Luray 1825 \"There will be more done to them by Mr Modesitt's estate than my utmost fears anticipate so much that it will absolutely necessary for me to sell all the black people, and I very much question whether they together with all the rest of the personal estate will be sufficient to pay all the bonded and guardian debts.\" Letter from John Booton from 1846 about Albino Black Children There was a great animal show here yesterday and wax works and four white negro boys their father and mother are said to be black and these naturally white, their noses are flat and their hair white and curly and have every resemblance of a negro except their eyes and feet. I saw a man after the show was over and said he pulled out a bunch of his hair to ascertain whether he had on a wig or not and found that he had not.\" Letter from John Booton from 1846 \"There was a murder committed but a short distance from there. The murder was a negro supposed to be a runaway and stabbed up a white man for trying to arrest him and made his escape. William says he has volunteered for Texas, tell him if he is very eager to get there an opportunity now offers for staying five years so if he wants to go bad he had better come on here immediately as there are now officers here from the army recruiting\" Letter from John Booton Christmas Eve 1845 about a sermon by the well known Indian Missionary, John Douglas Bemo from the Seminole Tribe \"I heard a Seminole Indian preach last Sunday a week in the Presbyterian Church at this place I also heard him give a description of himself, his tribe the same night. It was very interesting indeed there was a collection made for him to distribubte amongst his tribe, he got $100 at this place, $19 of which he got out of James Peach's Family, the Indian's name was John Bemo of the seminoe tribe, a nephew of the celebrated Chief Osceola.\" Letter from John Booton from 1847 \"A great number of volunteer soldiers passed through here within the past week for Mexico. I also saw two Indians pass through yesterday on the stages going home from Washington City. They belong to the Caw tribes in a remote part of Missouri. They were bare headed and nothing to cover their body but a blanket thrown carelessly over their shoulders and a pair of shoes. It would be impossible for me to describe the beads and jewelry of various kinds about their persons. They could speak English Tolerably well.\" 1861 Confederate Document for taxes including sections about slaves by Charles Modesitt 1862 Confederate Circular from the Auditor's Office in Richmond on licenses to run distilleries.\"","Group of 15 Circulars for the Commissioner of Revenue for Virginia from the 1840s and 1850s, they belonged to Charles Modesitt who was the Commissioner in Page County","1 of 2. Ten Copy Books by the Children, Sarah, Wyatt Stage and others, from the 1840s and 1850s, they range from a few pages to several with around 70 pages. They are all handwritten and have areas for copying the same line over and over again along with other areas for class notes and exercises.","2 of 2. Ten Copy Books by the Children, Sarah, Wyatt Stage and others, from the 1840s and 1850s, they range from a few pages to several with around 70 pages.  They are all handwritten and have areas for copying the same line over and over again along with other areas for class notes and exercises.","New England Primer , Old School and New School","Lucy Modesitt's accounts","The General Laws in relation to Commissioners and Collectors of the Revenue, 1850. Laws in relation to Commissioners and Collectors of the Public Revenue, etc. 1858. Annual Reports of the Fish Commissioners of the State of Virginia, 1875-1877","Richmond Examiner enclosing a copybook exercise by John W, Modesitt, circa January 2, 1860.","Confederate Bond Coupon from 1864 Small Broadside for selling the business of Robert Modesitt, selling the entire stock 1850s 18 page account book for items including Hog Skins, Squirrel Skins, Sheep Skins and other items from 1834 Small Account Book/Ledger including clothing items from 1835 2 Page Handwritten Poem written by John Booton 1844 at Luray Academy Diary of Charles Modisett as a Teacher of the Public White School in the Springfield District from 1880, including enrollment, attendance, ages of kids, along with a selection of his notes as teacher. Prayer book and 4 page Policy of Insurance from the Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia at Winchester from 1853 Virginia Confederate Bond Coupon 1864 Several Engraved Rewards of Merit for the Children from the 1840s-1860s Nice License for Private Entertainment by Charles B Modesitt 1860 Handwritten note for the Election of 1853, listing all the votes fro Congress, Senate and House from Price's Mill, Brintz's Mill, Mohler's Mille, Honeyville, Springfield, Rileysville, Oakham and Luray with Armstrong, Butler, Faulkner, Buswell, Keyser and Spitter all running for office Small Printed Broadside of the Faculty of Jefferson College from 1849 Documents dealing with the death and estate of James Modesitt from 1827.","Complaint of 1824: 3 page complaint, 1824, about a slave that was hired for a year threatening to run away with her husband. Her husband actually comes and demands that he sell her back to the previous owner or she will run away.","\"Dear Sir I am informed by Mr Thomas Clore that you wish to purchase a farm on this side of the mountain. I have a small one. I will sell on accommodating terms the tract contains 137 acres, it is on the south side of the Robison River\"","\"Did you see Belle Austin's husband while you were in Uniontown? He is a whopper. Considerably over six feet. I saw a catalog of the Steubenville Seminary a few days ago which had the name of Margret Thompson from Luray, Virginia in it. Pray, who is she? Is she Dr. Thompson's daughter? The seminary is only a days ride from this place.\"","\"I hope Daniel Kibler's letter has not put Charlie in the notion of going to the West. I suppose from what he says that his father has taken up some government or vacant land, as it is called.\"","\"We stayed in Washington city until 5:00 Saturday evening. We went to the president's house, the public grounds, the Washington Monument, the Equestrian Statue of Jackson, the Capitol, the Patent Office. I enclose a five dollar note which I got from Mr. Grove. It turns out to be counterfeit.\"","\"Rob's little boy, Austin got kicked by a horse about ten days ago and had his collar bone broken. It still had to be fastened to its place but he does not complain of it hurting him any and is running about as if nothing unusual had happened to him. He is one of the boldest and most reckless boys I ever saw.\"","\"Cousin Jno Booton wrote to me a few weeks ago saying that Dr Rust was desirous that I should return in the spring to practice with him.I don't know what to say about it. I shall write to John asking what share Dr Rust is willing to give and how long he proposes the partnership should last. This will give me time to hear from you on the subject.\"\"I sent by him one dozen bottles of McMunn's Elixir of opium for Lucy.It will help to control her cough and whenever she requires an opiate whether in the shape of Laudaman Panegone, Black Drop, Morphia, or Solid Opium\"","\"I have sent a vial of spirits of Mendereri, you will please give cousin Lucy a teaspoon full every hour, when she seems feverish, until her skin becomes moist, I have also sent some creamer tartar she can use to make the magueria operate should it not operate without\"","\"I was very busy for a while after Mr Fetzer left here for Wheeling. You said in your letter that Doctor Robertson has sold his farm to David Kibler for $900 and has moved to the West. I don't recollect any David Kibler unless he is a son of old Philip Kibler.\"","\"Aunt Lucy, You will please inform me of what were the movements of you father during the Revolution of our country, if you have any information on this please inform me.\"","\"I start for the West in the morning but not very far, yet my trip will be longer, I fear than will be entirely pleasant to me. I have hope of getting back before 1st April, will be much pleased to be disappointed to the contrary. My trip west from which I have just returned, was a pleasant one with the exception of cold weather. I experienced a river severe time crossing the Alleghany Mountains\"","\"I suppose you have heard of the steam boat explosion here last week. It was a melancholy thing indeed, there was at the time and since died from injuries, twenty-six or seven persons. The boat was entirely new and was about to make a short trip for trial and had not left shore fifty yards when the boiler burst and made the dreadful destruction of life, there was eighty-two persons on board and only fifteen escaped unhurt\"","\"We have had a warm political contest here but all is lost. JK Polk will certainly be president of the US. I am disappointed beyond measure. I could not have believed he could have beaten our gallant old Harry, but it is all over, and we must make the best of it.\"","\"We arrived here on the 4th of the month being detained by the snow two days at Harpers Ferry. I was in the United States Armory at the Ferry it was a great curiosity to me indeed to see more than three hundred person employed in making guns.\"","\"I have heard alarms of fire every night since I have been here. The first night I got here there was a fire very near in sight of my window besides three others. The town seemed to be in commotion all night. I have gotten along from the time I left home. I will give you first and account from the day I left. The first day I went to Shenandoah Furnace. The next day I went to Harrisonburg and the next day to New Market where I remained until Wednesday. I walked from New Market to Mount Jackson, seven miles. It was not the day for the stage when I left New Market.\"","\"I have got about 5 or 6 hundred silk worms which keep me very busy of mornings and evenings feeding them and shifting them on fresh leaves. I feed them on the natural mulberry and James William on the Morus Multicaulis. My worms appear to grow faster than his.\"","\"The University of Virginia receives an annuity of $15,000 from the state and one of the conditions on which is receives it is that there shall be one student from every congressional district from the state educated free of charge for tuition and boarding. I could perhaps get in there from the Paige District, but it would make me feel a little too degraded to be educated at the expense of the state. Besides, the Virginia University is one of the best, if not the very best, college in the United States","\"The honorable James Buchanan passed through here last Monday and made a short speech to the students. I was very well pleased both with the speech and the man. One does not see any of the outward peculiarities which are sometimes taken for characteristics of greatness, except indeed the deep cunning expressed by his eyes or the sharpness and prominence of the chin.\"","\"There was arrested yesterday and taken to jail a man by the name of Thomas Evans for the murder of Hayden Bliss on 19th of November 1845. After this fatal affray Evans says he went to Ohio but feeling uneasy and uncomfortable there he thought it would be better for him to return home. We are told he made no resistance to the officer who arrested him but quietly and peaceably submitted to his control and direction. Evans says he did it in self defense. He murdered him by chopping Blisses head in a horrid manner with a corn cutter. The murdered man was a brother in law of the murderer","\"There was a murder committed but a short distance from there. The murder was a negro supposed to be a runaway and stabbed up a white man for trying to arrest him and made his escape. William says he has volunteered for Texas, tell him if he is very eager to get there an opportunity now offers for staying five years so if he wants to go bad he had better come on here immediately as there are now officers here from the army recruiting\"","There was a great animal show here yesterday and wax works and four white negro boys their father and mother are said to be black and these naturally white, their noses are flat and their hair white and curly and have every resemblance of a negro except their eyes and feet. I saw a man after the show was over and said he pulled out a bunch of his hair to ascertain whether he had on a wig or not and found that he had not.\"","\"A great number of volunteer soldiers passed through here within the past week for Mexico. I also saw two Indians pass through yesterday on the stages going home from Washington City. They belong to the Caw tribes in a remote part of Missouri. They were bare headed and nothing to cover their body but a blanket thrown carelessly over their shoulders and a pair of shoes. It would be impossible for me to describe the beads and jewelry of various kinds about their persons. They could speak English Tolerably well.\"","\"On Friday last Samuel S Austin brother of Mary, was killed on the hill this side of Brownsville, by the bursting of a wall swivel, that is a Mexican gun made of brass and weighing between 100 and 125 pounds. A piece of it about 10 inches long and 1 inch thick struck him in the abdoment or rather his thigh and mashed the hip bone, throwing clear out a part of the joint nearly as large as the half of a hen's egg and tearing out his entrails.He had gone down the Ohio river to Wheeling to meet the volunteers from this county just returning from Mexico.\" The other accident resulted in the death of a little boy a few days previous to that. He was the son of Mr Peter Kremer of this place and was hanging with his hands to the coupling pole of a wagon and the driver not knowing he was there stopped and commenced backing the wagon, when the little boy fell and the wheel passed right over his neck, breaking it and causing instant death\"","\"I left your overshoes at the Post Office at New Market to be returned to you, I will send those Saddlebags and Overcoat in Roberts Trunk\"","Nice Handwritten Invitation to John and Robert to attend a social party at the Washington House in Luray, signed by all the managers 1845","Nice letter from L.C. Marye from Fredericksburg, 1845, \"I saw your cousin, J.K. Booton last Tuesday, I believe he was in usual health. He is now captain of the company that your father had the command of before his decease\"","\"We have a had a great deal of wet, The National road has been in a horrid condition, all winter, it is getting a little better now. You have a nice set of candidates for the Senate, I must confess. The county candidates will do a little better.\"","\"The woman arrested sometime ago for killing the Watchman, has been tried and acquitted on the ground that she committed the murder in Self-Defense. Charles Austin, Marye's Brother, was to be tried for seduction and breach of promise of marriage but the case was compromised before it came into court by his Father paying the girl's father five hundred and fifty dollars. Another girl sued Skiles Austin for a case of the same nature.The male portion of that family have turned out badly\"","\"I have one important matter to communicate and that is that I am going to be married in May unless something strange, very strange, turns up. I hope you are willing to trust my judgment in the selection of a companion for life. I think my choice is a prudent and happy one and one that cannot fail to please you. I am sure if you love me or any child you have, you will love her. I wish you could see her.\"","\"There are two literary societies composed of the students of the college. They meet once a week and in rotation have lectures, compositions, and a debate. I am a member of the largest one, the Adelphian, and last night I spoke two rounds on the debate. The first time I ever made a speech. The question for debate was this. Can a government be perpetuated which is not founded on a religion?\"","\"Aunt Lucy, You will please inform me what were the movements of your father during the Revolution of our country, if you have any information on this please inform me.\"","\"The expectation of a war with Mexico has caused great excitement and go where you will almost you will find that the subject of their discussion, in fact the surgeon of the Union Town Companies have had a great many applicants under pretence of different diseases to try to get off from going to war\"","\"The people here are very apprehensive of the cholera, none has occurred in town yet, but there have been several cases at the poor house, a good many deaths by cholera have taken place in Brownsville.\"","\"I saw this morning an account of another battle fought between the Americans and the Mexicans which lasted sometime. During the action, lieut. Thomas Jordan and many other gallant officers were wounded. I reckon Mr. Jordan will be much grieved to hear that his son has happened to such a sad accident but it will be of some consolation to him to think that it was done in defense of his country. Brid. Gen.Joshua Howe of this place received orders from the president this morning to call together the militia of this country and march to the field of battle on the 22nd of June. I would like to know if there is any likelihood of many being taken away from Luray.\"","\"We were detained at Harpers Ferry nearly two days and saw a great many curiosities there, one of which was the U States armory, a great curiosity indeed.\"","\"I am going to school at Madison College, do not let the word College deceive you any person would naturally suppose that it was a large flourishing institution but they would be wonderfully mistaken. For it is nothing to be compared with the Luray Academy when it was under the admirable superintendence of G.W. Grayson or Bandylegs as we used to call him.\"","\"I wish he had been here last Sunday Morning to witness the departure of the Fayette County Volunteers for Mexico, it was an imposing sight.\"","\"I felt like jumping up and cracking my heels together when I heard that Colb of Georgia was elected speaker of the house and then the Chairmen of all the important committees in the senate are pro-slavery men. Such a triumph of the south puts the abolitionist about here considerably down in the mouth. What do you think of the President's Message, I think it small potatoes\"","\"There has been a good deal of excitement here since the election and it seems that the Whigs have beat the Democrats in this state and the Democrats had beat the Whigs in Ohio. Great efforts will be made by each party to carry this state in November for President.\"","\"I was a little surprised last Thursday morning when I got up to discover an attempt to break in the store during the night. They bored holes with an auger through the door next to the street with the intention to get out the key, I suppose, but they did not succeed. They were scared off by the watchmen. If they had gotten in, I think they would have met with rather a warm reception. I did not hear them as I sleep upstairs, but if they had come up there, I had the thing that would have made them get out a little quicker than they got in. There seems to be a gang of villains about here for awhile. They have attempted to fire buildings and do other mischief. One rogue has been safely lodged in jail for breaking in a store in Parkersburg, Virginia and robbed it of $200.\"","Letter from John Booton while at college from 1850 \"The Niggers are very numerous here and very important. A few evenings since a big black fellow who thought himself as good as anybody undertook to make some students here from Kentucky and some of the other slave states, get out of his road. The even convinced him he had waked up the wrong passengers. They gave the negro a little the soundest cudgeling he ever had. The whole body of the negroes became outraged at this and armed themselves with guns, pistols, bowie knives, axes, and clubs swearing vengeance on the white fellows that whipped their colored brother and if the rest of the students came to their assistance, prepared for a general battle. They did not proceed to violence but contented themselves by getting out warrants for the arrest of the students concerned in the affray. Some think the disturbance will not end here but that during the coming vacation while a good many of the students are at home the negroes will attempt to overpower those that remain here. All I can say is that if they do there will be blood spilled. The blacks are nearly all armed. To make the matter worse a good many of the inhabitants take sides with the niggers. How I despise such people. I have hardly benevolence enough to wish them a happy hereafter. I have never had any difficulty with the blacks or their white allies and hope I shall not have.\"","Letter from John Booton Christmas Eve 1845 about a sermon by the well known Indian Missionary, John Douglas Bemo from the Seminole Tribe \"I heard a Seminole Indian preach last Sunday a week in the Presbyterian Church at this place I also heard him give a description of himself, his tribe the same night. It was very interesting indeed there was a collection made for him to distriubte amongst his tribe, he got $100 at this place, $19 of which he got out of James Peach's Family, the Indian's name was John Bemo of the seminoe tribe, a nephew of the celebrated Chief Osceola.\"","Letter to Dr F.W.G. Thomas, who became a well known physician in Missouri looking for employment from 1852. Letter from Rockingham with a folk art drawing of a bird with a branch at the top of the letter","\"I see by the newspapers that the Democrats have done the thing up brown at the election in the Old Dominion. As far as heard from they have already a majority of seven over what they had in the last legislature. How is it in Page, is Boswell or Keyser elected?\"","\"Since the treaty with Mexico has been concluded a great number of soldiers going home passed through this place. The most of them looked the worse for the war, there were several distiguished officers of high rank among them, that that I saw were, General Pillow, Quitman, Cadwalder and last but not least Major General William Butler of Kentucky, the Democratic Candidate for Vice President.\" \"General Patterson and Shields also went through here but I did not see them... The Whigs and Democrats both have polls up. The Whig pole is 210 feet high... There was a discussion at the Whig Pole on Friday night between AJ Ogle and J.S. Dawson, the former the Whig Candidate for Congress and the latter the Democratic one for the same office.\"","\"We had a grand illumination of the town about a week ago in celebration of the surrender of the city of Vera Cruz. Capt. S.S. Austin has just [?] from Mexico, he went about 3 months ago by himslef but afterwards joined the 3rd artillery and served as 1st Lieutenant and the attack on Vera Cruz.\" \"He has a prospect of seeling out here too and if he does I think he will go to Missouri probably after that concern is closed in Baltimore. His business calls him to Missouri now for two or three weeks. Say nothing about this out of the family for he does not wish it mentioned to any person I know.\"","\"There is an old colonel by the name of Semaroski lecturing on Napoleon Bonaparte he served under Napoleon in the French war, 23 years. He has been in 202 batlles he has a very large scar from his mouth to his ear and a very large lump on his side where he was wounded with a cannoncall. He is also a minister of the Gospel a Lutheran by profession. He was born in Poland and educated in france and moved to Indiana after the French Revolution.\"","\"I was going to write to you last Sunday but as Gen. Taylor was expected to pass through here this week. I put it off in order to give you an account of his reception and description of his person. He arrived here yesterday evening at 7 precisely and remained overnight. A large concourse of citizens met him about a mile from town and escorted him to the Clinton House in a open carriage. He was welcomed to the town in a short speech by E. P. Oliphant, to which he replied in a speech of about three to five minutes... It seems that everybody had got it into their noggins that he was a large man, consequently they were disappointed to find him a small one.\"","\"This is a day of sad gloom in our town. The Cholera in its most malignant form commenced its savages here yesterday. I think the first occurred about 8 AM and died about noon. Since that time 7 have died and there are others that are sick that may terminate fatally. It is so far confined to one street principally none having occurred but in the vicinity of that street. The gloom and alarm here you can hardly conceive, many have left town and many more I think will leave.\"","\"The woman arrested sometimes ago for killing the Watchman, has been tried and acquitted on the ground that she committed the murder in Self-Defense. Charles Austin, Marye's Brother, was to be tried for seduction and breach of promise of marriage but the case was compromised before it came into court by his Father paying the girl's father five hundred and fifty dollars. Another girl sued Skiles Austin for a case of the same nature. The male portion of the family have turned out badly.\"","\"I saw this morning an account of another battle fought between the Americans and the Mexicans which lasted sometime. During the action, lieut. Thomas Jordan and many other gallant officers were wounded. I reckon Mr. Jordan will be much grieved to hear that his son has happened to such a sad accident but it will be of some consoloation to him to think that it was done in defense of his country.\" \"Brid. Gen. Joshua Howe fo this place received orders from the president this morning to call together the militia of this country and march to the field of battle on the 22nd of June. I would like to know if there is any likelihood of many being taken away from Luray.\"","\"We were detained at Harpers Ferry nearly two days and saw a great many curiosities there, one of which was the U States armory, a great curiosity indeed.\"","\"We have had a warm political contest here but all is lost. J.K. Polk will certainly be president of the US. I am disappointed beyond measure. I could not have believed he could have beaten our gallant old Harry, but it is all over, and we must make the best of it.\"","\"I am going to school at Madison College, do not let the word College deceive you any person would naturally suppose that it was a large flourishing institution but they would be wonderfully mistaken. For it is nothing compared with the Luray Academy when it was under the admirable superintendence of G.W. Grayson of Bandylegs as we used to call him.\"","\"I wish he had been here last Sunday Morning to witness the departure of the Fayette County Volunteers for Mexico, it was an imposing sight.\"","\"I felt like jumping up and cracking my heels together when i heard that Colb of Georgie was elected speaker of the house and then the Chairmen of all the important committees in the senate are pro-slavery men. Such a Triumph of the south puts the abolitionist about here considerably down in the mouth. What do you think of the President's message, I think it small potatoes.\"","\"There has been a good deal of excitement her since the election and it seems that the Whigs have beat the Democrats in this state and the Democrats had beat the Whigs in Ohio. Great efforts will be made by each party to carry this state in November for President.\"","\"I was a little surprised last Thursday morning when I got up to discover an attempt to breakin the store during the night. They bored holes with an auger through the door next to the street with the intention to get out the key, I suppose, but they did not succeed. They were scared off by the watchmen. If they had gotten in, i think they would have met with rather a warm reception. I did not hear them as I slept upstains, but if they had come up there, I had the thing that would have made them get out a little quicker than they got in.\" \"There seems to be a gang of villians about here for awhile. They have attempted to fire buildings and do other mischief. One rogue has been safely lodged in jail for breaking in a store in Parkersburg, Virginia and robbed it of $200.\"","\"The University of Virginia receives an annuity of $15,000 from the state and one of the conditions on which it receives it is that there shall be one student from every congressional district from the state educated free of charge for tuition and boarding. I could perhaps get in there from the Paige District, but it would make me feel a little too degraded to be educated at the expense of the state. Besides, the Virginia University is one of the best, if not the very best, college in the United States.\"","\"We stayed in Washington city until 5:00 Saturday evening. We went to the president's house, the public grounds, the Washington Monument, the Equestrian Statue of Jackson, the Capitol, the Patent Office. I enclose a five dollar note which I got from Mr. Grove. It turns out to be counterfeit.\"","\"The honorable James Buchanan passed through here last Monday and made a short speech to the students. I was very well pleased both with the speech and the man. Once does not see any of the outward peculiarities which are sometimes taken for characteristics of greatness, except indeed the deep cunning expressed by his eyes or the sharpness and prominence of the chin.\"","\"There was a murder committed but a short distance from there. The murder was a negro supposed to be a runaway and stabbed up a white man for trying to arrest him and made his escape.\" \"William says he has volunteer for Texas, tell him if he is very eager to her there an oppotunity not offers for staying frive years so if he wants to go bad he had better come on here immediately as there are now officers here from the army recruiting.\"","\"There was a great animal show here yesterday and wax works and four white negro boys their father and mother are said to be black and these naturally white, their noses are flat and their hair white and curly and have every resemblance of a negro except their eyes and feet. I saw a man after the show was over and said he pulled out a bunch of his hair to ascertain whether he had on a wig or not and found that he had not.\"","Letter from John Booton from 1851 about escaped enslaved persons from Virginia and the battle that ensued over them being arrested and the free Black persons and abolitionists that got involved and were ready to fight for them, really fantastic: \"We had a great excitement here last Monday on account of the arrest of some runaway negroes from Virginia. There were warrants issued for the arrest of five fugitives. Two of them were taken at Robstown on the Loughegheny River, but the free blacks and abolitionists raised a mob, rescued the slaves and cut some of the officers. Two others were arrested in Brownsville and after creating a good deal of excitement were brought to Uniontown for trial. After they had been lodged in jail news came that there was a considerable body of armed negroes headed by one or two abolitionists coming from Brownsville to attempt a rescue. In hearing this the sheriff ordered out the military to maintain the laws. A part of the darkies reported to be coming, come in town one at a time. Finding the soldiers ready and anxious for a fight they left town without ceremony. Money was raised to indemnify the owners and the slaves set at liberty.\"","\"A great number of volunteer soldiers passed through here within the past week for Mexico. I also saw two Indians pass through yesterday on the stages going home from Washington City. They belong to the Caw tribes in a remote part of Missouri. They were bare headed and nothing to cover their body but a blanket thrown carelessly over their shoulders and a pair of shoes. it would be impossible for me to describe the beads and jewelry of various kinds about their persons. They could speak English Tolerably well.\"","\"She seems to decline fast but she does not appear to suffer much severe paint often. Dr Henkel's medicine weakened her very fast while taking to Dr Kim came in to see her and advised her together with Dr Crane to discontinue the use of it\"","\"On Friday last Samuel S. Austin brother of Mary, was killed on the hill this side of Brownsville, by the bursting of a wall swivel, that is a Mexican gun made of brass and weighing between 100 and 125 pounds. A piece of it about 10 inches long and 1 inch thick struck him in the abdoment or rather his thigh and mashed the hip bone, throwing clear out a part of the joint nearly as large as the half of a hen's egg and tearing out his entrails. he had gone down the Ohio river to Wheeling to meet the volunteers from this county just returning from Mexico.\" \"The other accident resulted in the death of a little boy a few days previous to that. He was the son of Mr. Peter Kremer of this place and was hanging with his hands to the coupling pole of a wagon and the driver not knowing he was there stopped and commenced backing the wagon, when the little boy fell and the wheel passed right over his neck, breaking it and causing instant death.\"","\"I wasvery busy for a while after Mr. Fetzer left here for Wheeling. You said in your letter that Doctor Robertson has sold his farm to David Kibler for $900 and has moved to the West. I don't recollect any David Kibler unless he is the son of Philip Kibler.\"","\"I have got about 5 or 6 hundred silk worms which keep me very busy of mornings and evenings feeding them and shifting them on fresh leaves. I feed them on the natural mulberry and James William on the Morus Multicaulis. My worms appear to grow faster than his.\"","\"I left your overshoes at the Post Office at New Market to be returned to you, I will send those Saddlesbags and Overcoat in Robert's Trunk.\"","Nice handwritten invitation to John and Robert to attent a social party at the Washington House in Luray signed by all the managers.","\"I saw your cousin, J.K. Booton last Tuesday, I believe he was in usual health. He is now captain of the company that your father had the command of before his decease.\"","\"I see by the newspapers that the Democrats have done the thing up brown at the election in the Old Dominion. As far as heard from they have already a majority of seven over what they had in the last legislature. How is it in Page, is Boswell or Keyser elected?\"","\"Since the treaty with Mexico has been concluded a great number of soldiers going home passed through this place. The most of them looked the worse for the war, there were several distinguished officers of high rank among them, that that I saw were, General Pillow, Quitman, Cadwalder and last but not least Major General William Butler of Kentucky, the Democratic Candidate for Vice President.\" \"General Patterson and Shields also went through here but I did not see them..The Whigs and Democrats both have polls up. The Whig pole is 210 feet high...There was a discussion at the Whig Pole on Friday night between AJ Ogle and J.S. Dawson, the former the Whig Candidate for Congress and the latter the Democratic one for the same office\"","\"We had a grand illumination of the town about a week ago in celebration of the surrender of the city of Vera Cruz.Capt S.S. Austin has just ? From Mexico, he went about 3 months ago by himself but afterwards joined the 3rd artillery and served as 1st Lieutenant in the attack on Vera Cruz.\" \"He has a prospect of selling out here too and if he does I think he will go to Missouri probably after that concern is closed in Baltimore. His business calls him to Missouri now for two or three weeks.Say nothing about this out of the Family for he does not wish it mentioned to any person I know.\"","\"There is an old colonel by the name of Semaroski lecturing on Napoleon Bonaparte he served under Napoleon in the French war, 23 years. He has been in 202 battles he has a very large scar from his mouth to his ear and a very large lump on his side where he was wounded with a cannonball. He is also a minister of the Gospel a Lutheran by profession.He was born in Poland and educated in France and moved to Indiana after the French Revolution","\"I was going to write to you last Sunday but as Gen Taylor was expected to pass through here this week. I put it off in order to give you an account of his reception and description of his person.He arrived here yesterday evening at 7 precisely and remained over night. A large concourse of citizens met him about a mile from town and escorted him to the Clinton House in an open carriage. He was welcomed to the town in a short speech by E.P. Oliphant, to which he replied in a speech of about three to five minutes..It seems that everybody had got it into their noggins that he was a large man, consequently they were disappointed to find him a small one\"","\"This day is a day of sad gloom in our town. The Cholera in its most malignant form commenced its savages here yesterday. I think the first occured about 8 AM and died about noon. Since that time 7 have died and there are others that are sick that may terminate fatally. It is so far confined to one street principally non having occured but in the vicinity of that street. The gloom and alarm here you can hardly conceive, many have left town and many more I think will leave.\"","\"Did you see Belle Austin's Husband while you were in Uniontown? He is a whopper. Considerably over six feet. I saw a catalog of the Steubenville Seminary a few days ago which had the name of Margret Thompson from Luray, Virginia in it. Pray, who is she? Is she Dr. Thompson's daughter? The seminary is only a days ride from this place.\"","\"I hope Daniel Kibler's letter has not put Charlie in the notion of going to the West. I suppose from what he says that his father has taken up some government or vacant land, as it is called.\"","\"The Niggers are very numerous here and very impudent. A few evenings since a big black fellow who thought himself as googd as anybody undertook to make some students here from Kentucky and some of the other slave states, get out of his road. They even convinced him he had waked up the wrong passengers. They gave the negro a little the soundest cudgeling he ever had. The whole body of the negroes become outraged at this and armed themselves with guns, pistols, bowie knives, axes, and clubs swearing vengeance on the white fellows that whipped their colored brother and if the rest of the students came to their assistance, prepared for a general batte. They did not proceed to violence but contented themselves by getting out warrants for the arrest of the students concerned in the affray. Some think the disturbance will not end here but that during the coming vacation while a good many of the students are at home the negroes will attempt to overpower those that remain here. All I can say is that if they do there will be blood spilled. The blacks are nearly all armed. To make the matter worse a good many of the inhabitants take side with the niggers. How I despise such people. I have hardly benevolence enough to wish them a happy hereafter. I have never had any difficulty with the blacks or their white allies and hope I shall not have.\"","\"We had a great excitement here last Monday on account of the arrest of some runaway negroes from Virginia. There were warrants issued for the arrest of five fugitives. Two of them were taken at Robstown on the Loughegheny River, but the free blacks and abolitionists raised a mob, rescued the slaves and cut some of the officers. Two others were arrested in Brownsville and after creating a good deal of excitement were brought to Uniontown for trial. After they had been lodged in jail news came that there was a considerable body of armed negroes headed by one or two abolitionists coming from Brownsville to attempt a rescue. In hearing this the sheriff orfered out the military to maintain the laws. A part of the darkies reported to be coming, come in town one at a time. Finding the soldiers ready and anxious for a fight they left town without ceremony. Money was raised to indemnify the owners and the slaves set at liberty.\"","\"Rob's little boy, Austin got kicked by a horse about ten days ago and had his collar bone broken. It still had to be fastened to its place but he does not complain of it hurting him and and is running about as if nothing unusual had happened to him. He is one of the boldest and most reckless boys I ever saw.\"","\"She seems to decline fast but she does not appear to suffer much severe pain often. Dr Henkel's medicine weakened her very fast while taking to Dr Kim came in to see here and advised her together with Dr Crane to discontinue the use of it.\"","\"James W Modesitt Sheriff of Page County on the 6th day of July last and enclosed a copy of each together with a list of Free Negroes and transmitted them by mail to your office.\"","Indenture Document, Will, Work calculations","\"1824 Slave Document being an appraisal and dividing up of 21 Slaves, they are all named in the document.\"","\"Document from 1824 being a 3 page complaint about a slave that was hired for a year threatening to run away with her husband. Her husband actually comes and demands that he sell her back to the previous owner or she will runaway.","A document from Charles Modesitt from Page County from 1857 that includes listing the number of Free Negroes in the town at 3 cents each, there were 48 at the time","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","Booton, Lucy Mary Modesitt","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 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The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to Lucy Marye of Luray, Virginia who married James Modesitt in 1815. She was widowed in 1827 and remarried James Booton in 1830. Lucy was born to Peter and Eleanor Marye and was sister to William Staige Marye, who is considered one of the founders of Luray, Virginia Also included are letters by John Booton and others relating to slavery and politics, children's copy books, account books, a broadside, invoices, legal contracts and documents.","All of the following, description and excerpts, was provided by the seller and has not been verified: \"The archive of Lucy Marye of Luray, Virginia who married James Modesitt in 1815, who died in 1827, Lucy then married James Booton in 1830. (1809-1880 with the large majority of items being from the 1820s-1850s). Lucy was born to Peter and Eleanor Marye and was sister to William Staige Marye, who is considered one of the founders of Luray, Virginia.  ","Included are copy books by the children, Sarah, Wyatt Stage and others, from the 1840s and 1850s. They range from a few pages to several with around 70 pages. They are all handwritten and have areas for copying the same line over and over again along with other areas for class notes and exercises. ","Confederate Bond Coupon from 1864 ","Small Broadside for selling the business of Robert Modisett, selling the entire stock 1850s ","18 page account book for items including Hog Skins, Squirrel Skins, Sheep Skins and other items from 1834 ","Small Account Book/Ledger including clothing items from 1835 ","2 Page Handwritten Poem written by John Booton 1844 at Luray Academy Diary of Charles Modisett as a Teacher of the Public White School in the Springfield District from 1880, including enrollment, attendance, ages of kids, along with a selection of his notes as teacher. ","Invoices many several pages long some for medical items from Jonas Crane, a doctor in the area, some for blacksmith work, several for work on shoes and clothes Receipts including slave tax receipts Indentures and Deeds for land and property ","Several Large Fold Lists of Land Grants ","Some Books and Journals including New England Primer from the 1830s and 1840s Prayer book and hymnal ","Group of 15 Circulars for the Commissioner of Revenue for Virginia from the 1840s and 1850s, they belonged to Charles Modesitt who was the Commissioner in Page County ","4 page Policy of Insurance from the Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia at Winchester from 1853 ","Virginia Confederate Bond Coupon ","1864 Several Engraved Rewards of Merit for the Children from the 1840s-1860s ","Nice License for Private Entertainment by Charles B Modesitt ","1860 Handwritten note for the Election of 1853, listing all the votes from Congress, Senate and House from Price's Mill, Brintz's Mill, Mohler's Mille, Honeyville, Springfield, Rileysville, Oakham and Luray with Armstrong, Butler, Faulkner, Buswell, Keyser and Spitter all running for office ","Small Printed Broadside of the Faculty of Jefferson College from 1849 ","Documents dealing with the death and estate of James Modesitt from 1827","Handwritten Invitation to John and Robert to attend a social party at the Washington House in Luray, signed by all the managers ","1845 Letters The majority are 3-4 pages long. Interesting group of letters from G Gordon, who was a cousin. They were from Honeyville, Virginia to Luray from the 1830s","Letters from Hawksbill, Virginia from William R Almond, a well known businessman in Page County from the 1820s ","Letters from her son while he was at school at Jefferson Medical College from 1849-1853 ","Letters from her son, Robert Modesitt, as he traveled and started his business in Pennsylvania 1840s. ","Letters from Lucy Gordon from 1840 from Slate Mills, Virginia ","A few letters from James Modesitt to Lucy 1810s ","A few letters from Lucy to her children\" \"There are two literary societies composed of the students of the college. They meet once a week and in rotation have lectures, compositions, and a debate. I am a member of the largest one, the Adelphian, and last night I spoke two rounds on the debate. The first time I ever made a speech. The question for debate was this. Can a government be perpetuated which is not founded on a religion?\" \"I have one important matter to communicate and that is that I am going to be married in May unless something strange, very strange, turns up. I hope you are willing to trust my judgment in the selection of a companion for life. I think my choice is a prudent and happy one and one that cannot fail to please you. I am sure if you love me or any child you have, you will love her. I wish you could see her.\" \"I saw this morning an account of another battle fought between the Americans and the Mexicans which lasted sometime. During the action, lieut. Thomas Jordan and many other gallant officers were wounded. I reckon Mr. Jordan will be much grieved to hear that his son has happened to such a sad accident but it will be of some consolation to him to think that it was done in defense of his country. Brid. Gen. Joshua Howe of this place received orders from the president this morning to call together the militia of this country and march to the field of battle on the 22nd of June. I would like to know if there is any likelihood of many being taken away from Luray.\" \"We have had a warm political contest here but all is lost. JK Polk will certainly be president of the US. I am disappointed beyond measure. I could not have believed he could have beaten our gallant old Harry, but it is all over, and we must make the best of it.\" \"I was a little surprised last Thursday morning when I got up to discover an attempt to break in the store during the night. They bored holes with an anger through the door next to the street with the intention to get out the key, I suppose, but they did not succeed. They were scared off by the watchmen. If they had gotten in, I think they would have met with rather a warm reception. I did not hear them as I sleep upstairs, but if they had come up there, I had the thing that would have made them get out a little quicker than they got in. There seems to be a gang of villains about here for awhile. They have attempted to fire buildings and do other mischief. One rouge has been safely lodged in jail for breaking in a store in Parkersburg, Virginia and robbed it of $200.\" \"The honorable James Buchanan passed through here last Monday and made a short speech to the students. I was very well pleased both with the speech and the man. One does not see any of the outward peculiarities which are sometimes taken for characteristics of greatness, except indeed the deep cunning expressed by his eyes or the sharpness and prominence of the chin.\" \"I hope Daniel Kibler's letter has not put Charlie in the notion of going to the West. I suppose from what he says that his father has taken up some government or vacant land, as it is called.\" \"The University of Virginia receives an annuity of $15,000 from the state and one of the conditions on which is receives it is that there shall be one student from every congressional district from the state educated free of charge for tuition and boarding. I could perhaps get in there from the Paige District, but it would make me feel a little too degraded to be educated at the expense of the state. Besides, the Virginia University is one of the best, if not the very best, college in the United States.\" Letter from Port Gibson, Mississippi from Mary Marye describing her life from 1848. \"We stayed in Washington city until 5:00 Saturday evening. We went to the president's house, the public grounds, the Washington Monument, the Equestrian Statue of Jackson, the Capitol, the Patent Office. I enclose a five dollar note which I got from Mr. Grove. It turns out to be counterfeit.\" \"I received a letter from Dr. Rust some weeks ago. He offers me two fifths of his practice if I will go in to co-partnership with him in the spring. I answered it not accepting positively his offer, though I think it is not unlikely that I will.\" \"Did you see Belle Austin's husband while you were in Uniontown? He is a whopper. Considerably over six feet. I saw a catalog of the Steubenville Seminary a few days ago which had the name of Margret Thompson from Luray, Virginia in it. Pray, who is she? Is she Dr. Thompson's daughter? The seminary is only a days ride from this place.\" \"I have heard alarms of fire every night since I have been here. The first night I got here there was a fire very near in sight of my window besides three others. The town seemed to be in commotion all night. I have gotten along from the time I left home. I will give you first and account from the day I left. The first day I went to Shenandoah Furnace. The next day I went to Harrisonburg and the next day to New Market where I remained until Wednesday. I walked from New Market to Mount Jackson, seven miles. It was not the day for the stage when I left New Market.\" \"I suppose you will wonder what brought me here. I will answer that. It was through the improper intimacy of the young man that was here with a very respectable young lady. In order to keep out of trouble, he left this place last Sunday for parts unknown. He did not go without the knowledge of brother Robert. He has always acted highly honorable with him.\" Letters from Lucy Booton to her children from Slatevilles, Virginia. Letter to Dr F.W.G. Thomas, who became a well known physician in Missouri looking for employment from 1852 Nice letter from Rockingham with a nice folk art drawing of a bird with a branch at the top of the letter Great letter from James to Lucy a few months before they were married in 1815, \"I have purchased my Brother's blacksmith's and expect to start out to fetch them in on Wednesday next. I am making preparation to settle in Luray. I find that I shall get sufficient employ in my line of business and a great supply of work for my smiths. I believe it will be far more advantageous to me to live in town than out in the neighborhood as I cannot do anything at farming with my present force.my desire for your precious company is great tho I cannot see you now, only in mind, as soon after I return from the Allegany if possible I shall visit you, you may look for me on the Saturday before the fourth Sunday in the present month.\" Letter from James to Lucy from 1820, \"Business goes on well, Rose is very attentive doing her best to please her mistress, when she comes home. She is very attentive to the children. I think my dear it will be very convenient after I come from the Ohio State for you to visit our mother again before Christmas..truly, truly your till death Jas Modesitt\" \"I have sent a vial of spirits of Mendereri, you will please give cousin Lucy a teaspoon full every hour, when she seems feverish, until her skin becomes moist, I have also sent some creamer tartar she can use to make the magueria operate should it not operate without\" \"She seems to decline fast but she does not appear to suffer much severe paint often. Dr Henkel's medicine weakened her very fast while taking to Dr Kim came in to see her and advised her together with Dr Crane to discontinue the use of it\" \"Cousin Jno Booton wrote to me a few weeks ago saying that Dr Rust was desirous that I should return in the spring to practice with him.I don't know what to say about it. I shall write to John asking what share Dr Rust is willing to give and how long he proposes the partnership should last. This will give me time to hear from you on the subject.\" \"I sent by him one dozen bottles of McMunn's Elixir of opium for Lucy. It will help to control her cough and whenever she requires an opiate whether in the shape of Laudaman Panegone, Black Drop, Morphia, or Solid Opium\" \"On Friday last Samuel S Austin brother of Mary, was killed on the hill this side of Brownsville, by the bursting of a wall swivel, that is a Mexican gun made of brass and weighing between 100 and 125 pounds. A piece of it about 10 inches long and 1 inch thick struck him in the abdoment or rather his thigh and mashed the hip bone, throwing clear out a part of the joint nearly as large as the half of a hen's egg and tearing out his entrails.He had gone down the Ohio river to Wheeling to meet the volunteers from this county just returning from Mexico\" \"The other accident resulted in the death of a little boy a few days previous to that. He was the son of Mr Peter Kremer of this place and was hanging with his hands to the coupling pole of a wagon and the driver not knowing he was there stopped and commenced backing the wagon, when the little boy fell and the wheel passed right over his neck, breaking it and causing instant death,\" \"I was going to write to you last Sunday but as Gen Taylor was expected to pass through here this week. I put it off in order to give you an account of his reception and description of his person. He arrived here yesterday evening at 7 precisely and remained over night. A large concourse of citizens met him about a mile from town and escorted him to the Clinton House in an open carriage. He was welcomed to the town in a short speech by E.P. Oliphant, to which he replied in a speech of about three to five minutes..It seems that everybody had got it into their noggins that he was a large man, consequently they were disappointed to find him a small one\" Letter from Madison County from 1833 to James Booton, \"Dear Sir I am informed by Mr Thomas Clore that you wish to purchase a farm on this side of the mountain. I have a small one. I will sell on accommodating terms the tract contains 137 acres, it is on the south side of the Robison River\" \"I was very busy for a while after Mr Fetzer left here for Wheeling. You said in your letter that Doctor Robertson has sold his farm to David Kibler for $900 and has moved to the West. I don't recollect any David Kibler unless he is a son of old Philip Kibler.\" \"Emily is to be married next month, Mrs Ruby has left him, he has treated her very badly. Mr D brought her home to live, She is going to apply for a divorce, be kind enough to burn this letter.\" \"I thought I would wait until we heard from our election. We gave a small vote to what it should have been, about 750 majority where it out the have been 1150 Scott Vote in page\" \"You said in your letter that Uncle James Marye had just gone home from Mothers, he must be getting younger instead of older if he can stand so many fatiguing journeys across the ridge.\" \"We have a had a great deal of wet, The National road has been in a horrid condition, all winter, it is getting a little better now. You have a nice set of candidates for the Senate, I must confess. The county candidates will do a little better.\" \"There is an old colonel by the name of Semaroski lecturing on Napoleon Bonaparte he served under Napoleon in the French war, 23 years. He has been in 202 battles he has a very large scar from his mouth to his ear and a very large lump on his side where he was wounded with a cannonball. He is also a minister of the Gospel a Lutheran by profession.He was born in Poland and educated in France and moved to Indiana after the French Revolution\" \"We had a grand illumination of the town about a week ago in celebration of the surrender of the city of Vera Cruz.Capt S.S. Austin has just ? From Mexico, he went about 3 months ago by himself but afterwards joined the 3rd artillery and served as 1st Lieutenant in the attack on Vera Cruz.\" \"He has a prospect of selling out here too and if he does I think he will go to Missouri probably after that concern is closed in Baltimore. His business calls him to Missouri now for two or three weeks.Say nothing about this out of the Family for he does not wish it mentioned to any person I know.\" \"Since the treaty with Mexico has been concluded a great number of soldiers going home passed through this place. The most of them looked the worse for the war, there were several distinguished officers of high rank among them, that that I saw were, General Pillow, Quitman, Cadwalder and last but not least Major General William Butler of Kentucky, the Democratic Candidate for Vice President.\" \"General Patterson and Shields also went through here but I did not see them..The Whigs and Democrats both have polls up. The Whig pole is 210 feet high...There was a discussion at the Whig Pole on Friday night between AJ Ogle and J.S. Dawson, the former the Whig Candidate for Congress and the latter the Democratic one for the same office\" \"I see by the newspapers that the Democrats have done the thing up brown at the election in the Old Dominion. As far as heard from they have already a majority of seven over what they had in the last legislature. How is it in Page, is Boswell or Keyser elected?\" \"I start for the West in the morning but not very far, yet my trip will be longer, I fear than will be entirely pleasant to me. I have hope of getting back before 1st April, will be much pleased to be disappointed to the contrary. My trip west from which I have just returned, was a pleasant one with the exception of cold weather. I experienced a river severe time crossing the Alleghany Mountains\" Nice letter from L.C. Marye from Fredericksburg, 1845, \"Aunt Lucy, You will please inform me what were the movements of your father during the Revolution of our country, if you have any information on this please inform me.\" \"The expectation of a war with Mexico has caused great excitement and go where you will almost you will find that the subject of their discussion, in fact the surgeon of the Union Town Companies have had a great many applicants under pretence of different diseases to try to get off from going to war\" \"I am going to school at Madison College, do not let the word College deceive you any person would naturally suppose that it was a large flourishing institution but they would be wonderfully mistaken. For it is nothing to be compared with the Luray Academy when it was under the admirable superintendence of G.W. Grayson or Bandylegs as we used to call him.\" \"We were detained at Harpers Ferry nearly two days and saw a great many curiosities there, one of which was the U States armory, a great curiosity indeed\" \"I saw your cousin, J.K. Booton last Tuesday, I believe he was in usual health. He is now captain of the company that your father had the command of before his decease\" \"much more tedious journey than we anticipated I saw a great many strange things at least strange to me. Among them was the railroad and steam cars in operation by being thrown off the road from the fact of the North River being past fording we were compelled to go ten miles out of our way or lay by at Frankfort until the next day, that was a dreadful days travel, a most wretched road from Frankfort to Cumberland\" \"Rob's little boy, Austin got kicked by a horse about ten days ago and had his collar bone broken. It still had to be fastened to its place but he does not complain of it hurting him any and is running about as if nothing unusual had happened to him. He is one of the boldest and most reckless boys I ever saw.\" \"I would recommend this plan to him, to leave Luray Friday morning on horseback in time to get to New Market for the stages going from Winchester to Staunton in the day time..stay all night and leave at day light for the Rockbridge Alum Springs and get here Saturday evening, I suppose if he were to come by Lexington he would possibly find the connection between the stages a little better.\" \"Robert and all his family are well. He had Lucy's and Austin's Daguerreotypes taken a few days ago\" \"Several families from Dage County have passed through here going West, within the last week or two among them were William Wood, Washington Ruffner, and old Mr Varner going home from Ohio. Has the company that started from Luray a few days before I did, get back yet?.The widow and children of Sam Austin came back here last night from Philadelphia where she went after his death to see her mother\" \"There has been a good deal of excitement here since the election and it seems that the Whigs have beat the Democrats in this state and the Democrats had beat the Whigs in Ohio.Great efforts will be made by each party to carry this state in November for President\" \"There was arrested yesterday and taken to jail a man by the name of Thomas Evans for the murder of Hayden Bliss on 19th of November 1845. After this fatal affray Evans says he went to Ohio but feeling uneasy and uncomfortable there he thought it would be better for him to return home. We are told he made no resistance to the officer who arrested him but quietly and peaceably submitted to his control and direction. Evans says he did it in self defense. He murdered him by chopping Blisses head in a horrid manner with a corn cutter. The murdered man was a brother in law of the murderer.\" \"I left your overshoes at the Post Office at New Market to be returned to you, I will send those Saddlebags and Overcoat in Roberts Trunk\" \"We arrived here on the 4th of the month being detained by the snow two days at Harpers Ferry. I was in the United States Armory at the Ferry it was a great curiosity to me indeed to see more than three hundred person employed in making guns.\" \"I felt like jumping up and cracking my heels together when I heard that Colb of Georgia was elected speaker of the house and then the Chairmen of all the important committees in the senate are pro-slavery men. Such a triumph of the south puts the abolitionist about here considerably down in the mouth. What do you think of the President's Message, I think it small potatoes\" \"I wish he had been here last Sunday Morning to witness the departure of the Fayette County Volunteers for Mexico, it was an imposing sight.\" \"Your Turnpike affair seems to be looking up. Perhaps when I visit Page again I shall have the pleasure of crossing the Massanutten Mountains in the stage. I suppose Stage will have an opportunity for making some money by it and there is no doubt but that he will improve it\" \"The people here are very apprehensive of the cholera, none has occurred in town yet, but there have been several cases at the poor house, a good many deaths by cholera have taken place in Brownsville.\" \"I suppose you have heard of the steam boat explosion here last week. It was a melancholy thing indeed, there was at the time and since died from injuries, twenty-six or seven persons. The boat was entirely new and was about to make a short trip for trial and had not left shore fifty yards when the boiler burst and made the dreadful destruction of life, there was eighty-two persons on board and only fifteen escaped unhurt\" \"I suppose you are now acting sheriff and a laborious job you have of it no doubt. The duties of the officer in Virginia are much greater than they are here. The Sheriffs in Penn have no taxes to collect\" \"I was on a tour in the West. I wrote him from Wheeling, I left Wheeling on Sunday in the Steam Boat Messenger and arrived here about 12 yesterday. I leave here this evening for Nashville, Tennessee on the steam boat, Martha.\" Nice letter from Louisville, Kentucky while traveling \"The woman arrested sometime ago for killing the Watchman, has been tried and acquitted on the ground that she committed the murder in Self-Defense. Charles Austin, Marye's Brother, was to be tried for seduction and breach of promise of marriage but the case was compromised before it came into court by his Father paying the girl's father five hundred and fifty dollars. Another girl sued Skiles Austin for a case of the same nature.The male portion of that family have turned out badly\" \"This is a day of sad gloom in our town. The Cholera in its most malignant form commenced its savages here yesterday. I think the first occurred about 8 AM and died about noon. Since that time 7 have died and there are others that are sick that may terminate fatally. It is so far confined to one street principally non having occurred but in the vicinity of that street.The gloom and alarm here you can hardly conceive, many have left town and many more I think will leave.\" \"I have got about 5 or 6 hundred silk worms which keep me very busy of mornings and evenings feeding them and shifting them on fresh leaves. I feed them on the natural mulberry and James William on the Morus Multicaulis. My worms appear to grow faster than his.\" Nice letter from James to Lucy from 1825 \"Peter set of for Columbia, 6th of this month he went from here to Culpeper intending to take the stage and go on immediately but when he got there it was gone.He then took the stage and went to Orange CH where he intended to take the Fredericksburg and Charlottesville Stage but when it arrived it was so crowded that he could not get a seat.he therefore directed his trunk to be sent on to Charlottesville and set off on foot he walked to Gordonsville 10 miles to breakfast.Mechanicsville 6 miles to dinner then to MacCauley's tavern\" \"He hired 2 horses and a boy to carry him to Silmington 12 miles then to Columbia which waqs 9 miles, he walked, he got there Sunday evening.He got on board a boat loaded with tobacco bound to Richmond and went 12 miles by way of the river to Cartersville\" \"1824 Slave Document being an appraisal and dividing up of 21 Slaves, they are all named in the document.\" \"Interesting document from 1824 being a 3 page complaint about a slave that was hired for a year threatening to run away with her husband. Her husband actually comes and demands that he sell her back to the previous owner or she will runaway, it's really interesting. Letter from John Booton while at college from 1850 \"The Niggers are very numerous here and very important. A few evenings since a big black fellow who thought himself as good as anybody undertook to make some students here from Kentucky and some of the other slave states, get out of his road. The even convinced him he had waked up the wrong passengers. They gave the negro a little the soundest cudgeling he ever had. The whole body of the negroes became outraged at this and armed themselves with guns, pistols, bowie knives, axes, and clubs swearing vengeance on the white fellows that whipped their colored brother and if the rest of the students came to their assistance, prepared for a general battle.they did not proceed to violence but contented themselves by getting out warrants for the arrest of the students concerned in the affray.Some think the disturbance will not end here but that during the coming vacation while a good many of the students are at home the negroes will attempt to overpower those that remain here. All I can say is that if they do there will be blood spilled. The blacks are nearly all armed. To make the matter worse a good many of the inhabitants take sides with the niggers. How I despise such people. I have hardly benevolence enough to wish them a happy hereafter.I have never had any difficulty with the blacks or their white allies and hope I shall not have.\" Letter from John Booton from 1851 about runaway Virginia slaves and the battle that ensued over them being arrested and the free blacks and abolitionists that get involved and ready to fight for them, really fantastic: \"We had a great excitement here last Monday on account of the arrest of some runaway negroes from Virginia. There were warrants issued for the arrest of five fugitives. Two of them were taken at Robstown on the Loughegheny River, but the free blacks and abolitionists raised a mob, rescued the slaves and cut some of the officers. Two others were arrested in Brownsville and after creating a good deal of excitement were brought to Uniontown for trial. After they had been lodged in jail news came that there was a considerable body of armed negroes headed by one or two abolitionists coming from Brownsville to attempt a rescue. In hearing this the sheriff ordered out the military to maintain the laws. A part of the darkies reported to be coming, come in town one at a time. Finding the soldiers ready and anxious for a fight they left town without ceremony. Money was raised to indemnify the owners and the slaves set at liberty.\" 1855 Letter from Criglersville to Luray \"Mr Lindsay has two negroes with the fever, bad cases, I attend to them and go there every other day. It is seven miles from here. He is the first man in the county that gave me substantial encouragement. He says he has more confidence in the over the ridge doctors than he has in those about here. They are dangerously ill but if I can cure them and I think I can it will be a strong spoke in my wheel\" Letter from Charles Modisett from Page County 1860 \"James W Modesitt Sheriff of page County on the 6th day of July last and enclosed a copy of each together with a list of Free Negroes and transmitted them by mail to your office\" A document from Charles Modesitt from Page County from 1857 that includes listing the number of Free Negroes in the town at 3 cents each, there were 48 at the time Letter from William Almond from Hawksbill to Luray 1825 \"There will be more done to them by Mr Modesitt's estate than my utmost fears anticipate so much that it will absolutely necessary for me to sell all the black people, and I very much question whether they together with all the rest of the personal estate will be sufficient to pay all the bonded and guardian debts.\" Letter from John Booton from 1846 about Albino Black Children There was a great animal show here yesterday and wax works and four white negro boys their father and mother are said to be black and these naturally white, their noses are flat and their hair white and curly and have every resemblance of a negro except their eyes and feet. I saw a man after the show was over and said he pulled out a bunch of his hair to ascertain whether he had on a wig or not and found that he had not.\" Letter from John Booton from 1846 \"There was a murder committed but a short distance from there. The murder was a negro supposed to be a runaway and stabbed up a white man for trying to arrest him and made his escape. William says he has volunteered for Texas, tell him if he is very eager to get there an opportunity now offers for staying five years so if he wants to go bad he had better come on here immediately as there are now officers here from the army recruiting\" Letter from John Booton Christmas Eve 1845 about a sermon by the well known Indian Missionary, John Douglas Bemo from the Seminole Tribe \"I heard a Seminole Indian preach last Sunday a week in the Presbyterian Church at this place I also heard him give a description of himself, his tribe the same night. It was very interesting indeed there was a collection made for him to distribubte amongst his tribe, he got $100 at this place, $19 of which he got out of James Peach's Family, the Indian's name was John Bemo of the seminoe tribe, a nephew of the celebrated Chief Osceola.\" Letter from John Booton from 1847 \"A great number of volunteer soldiers passed through here within the past week for Mexico. I also saw two Indians pass through yesterday on the stages going home from Washington City. They belong to the Caw tribes in a remote part of Missouri. They were bare headed and nothing to cover their body but a blanket thrown carelessly over their shoulders and a pair of shoes. It would be impossible for me to describe the beads and jewelry of various kinds about their persons. They could speak English Tolerably well.\" 1861 Confederate Document for taxes including sections about slaves by Charles Modesitt 1862 Confederate Circular from the Auditor's Office in Richmond on licenses to run distilleries.\"","Group of 15 Circulars for the Commissioner of Revenue for Virginia from the 1840s and 1850s, they belonged to Charles Modesitt who was the Commissioner in Page County","1 of 2. Ten Copy Books by the Children, Sarah, Wyatt Stage and others, from the 1840s and 1850s, they range from a few pages to several with around 70 pages. They are all handwritten and have areas for copying the same line over and over again along with other areas for class notes and exercises.","2 of 2. Ten Copy Books by the Children, Sarah, Wyatt Stage and others, from the 1840s and 1850s, they range from a few pages to several with around 70 pages.  They are all handwritten and have areas for copying the same line over and over again along with other areas for class notes and exercises.","New England Primer , Old School and New School","Lucy Modesitt's accounts","The General Laws in relation to Commissioners and Collectors of the Revenue, 1850. Laws in relation to Commissioners and Collectors of the Public Revenue, etc. 1858. Annual Reports of the Fish Commissioners of the State of Virginia, 1875-1877","Richmond Examiner enclosing a copybook exercise by John W, Modesitt, circa January 2, 1860.","Confederate Bond Coupon from 1864 Small Broadside for selling the business of Robert Modesitt, selling the entire stock 1850s 18 page account book for items including Hog Skins, Squirrel Skins, Sheep Skins and other items from 1834 Small Account Book/Ledger including clothing items from 1835 2 Page Handwritten Poem written by John Booton 1844 at Luray Academy Diary of Charles Modisett as a Teacher of the Public White School in the Springfield District from 1880, including enrollment, attendance, ages of kids, along with a selection of his notes as teacher. Prayer book and 4 page Policy of Insurance from the Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia at Winchester from 1853 Virginia Confederate Bond Coupon 1864 Several Engraved Rewards of Merit for the Children from the 1840s-1860s Nice License for Private Entertainment by Charles B Modesitt 1860 Handwritten note for the Election of 1853, listing all the votes fro Congress, Senate and House from Price's Mill, Brintz's Mill, Mohler's Mille, Honeyville, Springfield, Rileysville, Oakham and Luray with Armstrong, Butler, Faulkner, Buswell, Keyser and Spitter all running for office Small Printed Broadside of the Faculty of Jefferson College from 1849 Documents dealing with the death and estate of James Modesitt from 1827.","Complaint of 1824: 3 page complaint, 1824, about a slave that was hired for a year threatening to run away with her husband. Her husband actually comes and demands that he sell her back to the previous owner or she will run away.","\"Dear Sir I am informed by Mr Thomas Clore that you wish to purchase a farm on this side of the mountain. I have a small one. I will sell on accommodating terms the tract contains 137 acres, it is on the south side of the Robison River\"","\"Did you see Belle Austin's husband while you were in Uniontown? He is a whopper. Considerably over six feet. I saw a catalog of the Steubenville Seminary a few days ago which had the name of Margret Thompson from Luray, Virginia in it. Pray, who is she? Is she Dr. Thompson's daughter? The seminary is only a days ride from this place.\"","\"I hope Daniel Kibler's letter has not put Charlie in the notion of going to the West. I suppose from what he says that his father has taken up some government or vacant land, as it is called.\"","\"We stayed in Washington city until 5:00 Saturday evening. We went to the president's house, the public grounds, the Washington Monument, the Equestrian Statue of Jackson, the Capitol, the Patent Office. I enclose a five dollar note which I got from Mr. Grove. It turns out to be counterfeit.\"","\"Rob's little boy, Austin got kicked by a horse about ten days ago and had his collar bone broken. It still had to be fastened to its place but he does not complain of it hurting him any and is running about as if nothing unusual had happened to him. He is one of the boldest and most reckless boys I ever saw.\"","\"Cousin Jno Booton wrote to me a few weeks ago saying that Dr Rust was desirous that I should return in the spring to practice with him.I don't know what to say about it. I shall write to John asking what share Dr Rust is willing to give and how long he proposes the partnership should last. This will give me time to hear from you on the subject.\"\"I sent by him one dozen bottles of McMunn's Elixir of opium for Lucy.It will help to control her cough and whenever she requires an opiate whether in the shape of Laudaman Panegone, Black Drop, Morphia, or Solid Opium\"","\"I have sent a vial of spirits of Mendereri, you will please give cousin Lucy a teaspoon full every hour, when she seems feverish, until her skin becomes moist, I have also sent some creamer tartar she can use to make the magueria operate should it not operate without\"","\"I was very busy for a while after Mr Fetzer left here for Wheeling. You said in your letter that Doctor Robertson has sold his farm to David Kibler for $900 and has moved to the West. I don't recollect any David Kibler unless he is a son of old Philip Kibler.\"","\"Aunt Lucy, You will please inform me of what were the movements of you father during the Revolution of our country, if you have any information on this please inform me.\"","\"I start for the West in the morning but not very far, yet my trip will be longer, I fear than will be entirely pleasant to me. I have hope of getting back before 1st April, will be much pleased to be disappointed to the contrary. My trip west from which I have just returned, was a pleasant one with the exception of cold weather. I experienced a river severe time crossing the Alleghany Mountains\"","\"I suppose you have heard of the steam boat explosion here last week. It was a melancholy thing indeed, there was at the time and since died from injuries, twenty-six or seven persons. The boat was entirely new and was about to make a short trip for trial and had not left shore fifty yards when the boiler burst and made the dreadful destruction of life, there was eighty-two persons on board and only fifteen escaped unhurt\"","\"We have had a warm political contest here but all is lost. JK Polk will certainly be president of the US. I am disappointed beyond measure. I could not have believed he could have beaten our gallant old Harry, but it is all over, and we must make the best of it.\"","\"We arrived here on the 4th of the month being detained by the snow two days at Harpers Ferry. I was in the United States Armory at the Ferry it was a great curiosity to me indeed to see more than three hundred person employed in making guns.\"","\"I have heard alarms of fire every night since I have been here. The first night I got here there was a fire very near in sight of my window besides three others. The town seemed to be in commotion all night. I have gotten along from the time I left home. I will give you first and account from the day I left. The first day I went to Shenandoah Furnace. The next day I went to Harrisonburg and the next day to New Market where I remained until Wednesday. I walked from New Market to Mount Jackson, seven miles. It was not the day for the stage when I left New Market.\"","\"I have got about 5 or 6 hundred silk worms which keep me very busy of mornings and evenings feeding them and shifting them on fresh leaves. I feed them on the natural mulberry and James William on the Morus Multicaulis. My worms appear to grow faster than his.\"","\"The University of Virginia receives an annuity of $15,000 from the state and one of the conditions on which is receives it is that there shall be one student from every congressional district from the state educated free of charge for tuition and boarding. I could perhaps get in there from the Paige District, but it would make me feel a little too degraded to be educated at the expense of the state. Besides, the Virginia University is one of the best, if not the very best, college in the United States","\"The honorable James Buchanan passed through here last Monday and made a short speech to the students. I was very well pleased both with the speech and the man. One does not see any of the outward peculiarities which are sometimes taken for characteristics of greatness, except indeed the deep cunning expressed by his eyes or the sharpness and prominence of the chin.\"","\"There was arrested yesterday and taken to jail a man by the name of Thomas Evans for the murder of Hayden Bliss on 19th of November 1845. After this fatal affray Evans says he went to Ohio but feeling uneasy and uncomfortable there he thought it would be better for him to return home. We are told he made no resistance to the officer who arrested him but quietly and peaceably submitted to his control and direction. Evans says he did it in self defense. He murdered him by chopping Blisses head in a horrid manner with a corn cutter. The murdered man was a brother in law of the murderer","\"There was a murder committed but a short distance from there. The murder was a negro supposed to be a runaway and stabbed up a white man for trying to arrest him and made his escape. William says he has volunteered for Texas, tell him if he is very eager to get there an opportunity now offers for staying five years so if he wants to go bad he had better come on here immediately as there are now officers here from the army recruiting\"","There was a great animal show here yesterday and wax works and four white negro boys their father and mother are said to be black and these naturally white, their noses are flat and their hair white and curly and have every resemblance of a negro except their eyes and feet. I saw a man after the show was over and said he pulled out a bunch of his hair to ascertain whether he had on a wig or not and found that he had not.\"","\"A great number of volunteer soldiers passed through here within the past week for Mexico. I also saw two Indians pass through yesterday on the stages going home from Washington City. They belong to the Caw tribes in a remote part of Missouri. They were bare headed and nothing to cover their body but a blanket thrown carelessly over their shoulders and a pair of shoes. It would be impossible for me to describe the beads and jewelry of various kinds about their persons. They could speak English Tolerably well.\"","\"On Friday last Samuel S Austin brother of Mary, was killed on the hill this side of Brownsville, by the bursting of a wall swivel, that is a Mexican gun made of brass and weighing between 100 and 125 pounds. A piece of it about 10 inches long and 1 inch thick struck him in the abdoment or rather his thigh and mashed the hip bone, throwing clear out a part of the joint nearly as large as the half of a hen's egg and tearing out his entrails.He had gone down the Ohio river to Wheeling to meet the volunteers from this county just returning from Mexico.\" The other accident resulted in the death of a little boy a few days previous to that. He was the son of Mr Peter Kremer of this place and was hanging with his hands to the coupling pole of a wagon and the driver not knowing he was there stopped and commenced backing the wagon, when the little boy fell and the wheel passed right over his neck, breaking it and causing instant death\"","\"I left your overshoes at the Post Office at New Market to be returned to you, I will send those Saddlebags and Overcoat in Roberts Trunk\"","Nice Handwritten Invitation to John and Robert to attend a social party at the Washington House in Luray, signed by all the managers 1845","Nice letter from L.C. Marye from Fredericksburg, 1845, \"I saw your cousin, J.K. Booton last Tuesday, I believe he was in usual health. He is now captain of the company that your father had the command of before his decease\"","\"We have a had a great deal of wet, The National road has been in a horrid condition, all winter, it is getting a little better now. You have a nice set of candidates for the Senate, I must confess. The county candidates will do a little better.\"","\"The woman arrested sometime ago for killing the Watchman, has been tried and acquitted on the ground that she committed the murder in Self-Defense. Charles Austin, Marye's Brother, was to be tried for seduction and breach of promise of marriage but the case was compromised before it came into court by his Father paying the girl's father five hundred and fifty dollars. Another girl sued Skiles Austin for a case of the same nature.The male portion of that family have turned out badly\"","\"I have one important matter to communicate and that is that I am going to be married in May unless something strange, very strange, turns up. I hope you are willing to trust my judgment in the selection of a companion for life. I think my choice is a prudent and happy one and one that cannot fail to please you. I am sure if you love me or any child you have, you will love her. I wish you could see her.\"","\"There are two literary societies composed of the students of the college. They meet once a week and in rotation have lectures, compositions, and a debate. I am a member of the largest one, the Adelphian, and last night I spoke two rounds on the debate. The first time I ever made a speech. The question for debate was this. Can a government be perpetuated which is not founded on a religion?\"","\"Aunt Lucy, You will please inform me what were the movements of your father during the Revolution of our country, if you have any information on this please inform me.\"","\"The expectation of a war with Mexico has caused great excitement and go where you will almost you will find that the subject of their discussion, in fact the surgeon of the Union Town Companies have had a great many applicants under pretence of different diseases to try to get off from going to war\"","\"The people here are very apprehensive of the cholera, none has occurred in town yet, but there have been several cases at the poor house, a good many deaths by cholera have taken place in Brownsville.\"","\"I saw this morning an account of another battle fought between the Americans and the Mexicans which lasted sometime. During the action, lieut. Thomas Jordan and many other gallant officers were wounded. I reckon Mr. Jordan will be much grieved to hear that his son has happened to such a sad accident but it will be of some consolation to him to think that it was done in defense of his country. Brid. Gen.Joshua Howe of this place received orders from the president this morning to call together the militia of this country and march to the field of battle on the 22nd of June. I would like to know if there is any likelihood of many being taken away from Luray.\"","\"We were detained at Harpers Ferry nearly two days and saw a great many curiosities there, one of which was the U States armory, a great curiosity indeed.\"","\"I am going to school at Madison College, do not let the word College deceive you any person would naturally suppose that it was a large flourishing institution but they would be wonderfully mistaken. For it is nothing to be compared with the Luray Academy when it was under the admirable superintendence of G.W. Grayson or Bandylegs as we used to call him.\"","\"I wish he had been here last Sunday Morning to witness the departure of the Fayette County Volunteers for Mexico, it was an imposing sight.\"","\"I felt like jumping up and cracking my heels together when I heard that Colb of Georgia was elected speaker of the house and then the Chairmen of all the important committees in the senate are pro-slavery men. Such a triumph of the south puts the abolitionist about here considerably down in the mouth. What do you think of the President's Message, I think it small potatoes\"","\"There has been a good deal of excitement here since the election and it seems that the Whigs have beat the Democrats in this state and the Democrats had beat the Whigs in Ohio. Great efforts will be made by each party to carry this state in November for President.\"","\"I was a little surprised last Thursday morning when I got up to discover an attempt to break in the store during the night. They bored holes with an auger through the door next to the street with the intention to get out the key, I suppose, but they did not succeed. They were scared off by the watchmen. If they had gotten in, I think they would have met with rather a warm reception. I did not hear them as I sleep upstairs, but if they had come up there, I had the thing that would have made them get out a little quicker than they got in. There seems to be a gang of villains about here for awhile. They have attempted to fire buildings and do other mischief. One rogue has been safely lodged in jail for breaking in a store in Parkersburg, Virginia and robbed it of $200.\"","Letter from John Booton while at college from 1850 \"The Niggers are very numerous here and very important. A few evenings since a big black fellow who thought himself as good as anybody undertook to make some students here from Kentucky and some of the other slave states, get out of his road. The even convinced him he had waked up the wrong passengers. They gave the negro a little the soundest cudgeling he ever had. The whole body of the negroes became outraged at this and armed themselves with guns, pistols, bowie knives, axes, and clubs swearing vengeance on the white fellows that whipped their colored brother and if the rest of the students came to their assistance, prepared for a general battle. They did not proceed to violence but contented themselves by getting out warrants for the arrest of the students concerned in the affray. Some think the disturbance will not end here but that during the coming vacation while a good many of the students are at home the negroes will attempt to overpower those that remain here. All I can say is that if they do there will be blood spilled. The blacks are nearly all armed. To make the matter worse a good many of the inhabitants take sides with the niggers. How I despise such people. I have hardly benevolence enough to wish them a happy hereafter. I have never had any difficulty with the blacks or their white allies and hope I shall not have.\"","Letter from John Booton Christmas Eve 1845 about a sermon by the well known Indian Missionary, John Douglas Bemo from the Seminole Tribe \"I heard a Seminole Indian preach last Sunday a week in the Presbyterian Church at this place I also heard him give a description of himself, his tribe the same night. It was very interesting indeed there was a collection made for him to distriubte amongst his tribe, he got $100 at this place, $19 of which he got out of James Peach's Family, the Indian's name was John Bemo of the seminoe tribe, a nephew of the celebrated Chief Osceola.\"","Letter to Dr F.W.G. Thomas, who became a well known physician in Missouri looking for employment from 1852. Letter from Rockingham with a folk art drawing of a bird with a branch at the top of the letter","\"I see by the newspapers that the Democrats have done the thing up brown at the election in the Old Dominion. As far as heard from they have already a majority of seven over what they had in the last legislature. How is it in Page, is Boswell or Keyser elected?\"","\"Since the treaty with Mexico has been concluded a great number of soldiers going home passed through this place. The most of them looked the worse for the war, there were several distiguished officers of high rank among them, that that I saw were, General Pillow, Quitman, Cadwalder and last but not least Major General William Butler of Kentucky, the Democratic Candidate for Vice President.\" \"General Patterson and Shields also went through here but I did not see them... The Whigs and Democrats both have polls up. The Whig pole is 210 feet high... There was a discussion at the Whig Pole on Friday night between AJ Ogle and J.S. Dawson, the former the Whig Candidate for Congress and the latter the Democratic one for the same office.\"","\"We had a grand illumination of the town about a week ago in celebration of the surrender of the city of Vera Cruz. Capt. S.S. Austin has just [?] from Mexico, he went about 3 months ago by himslef but afterwards joined the 3rd artillery and served as 1st Lieutenant and the attack on Vera Cruz.\" \"He has a prospect of seeling out here too and if he does I think he will go to Missouri probably after that concern is closed in Baltimore. His business calls him to Missouri now for two or three weeks. Say nothing about this out of the family for he does not wish it mentioned to any person I know.\"","\"There is an old colonel by the name of Semaroski lecturing on Napoleon Bonaparte he served under Napoleon in the French war, 23 years. He has been in 202 batlles he has a very large scar from his mouth to his ear and a very large lump on his side where he was wounded with a cannoncall. He is also a minister of the Gospel a Lutheran by profession. He was born in Poland and educated in france and moved to Indiana after the French Revolution.\"","\"I was going to write to you last Sunday but as Gen. Taylor was expected to pass through here this week. I put it off in order to give you an account of his reception and description of his person. He arrived here yesterday evening at 7 precisely and remained overnight. A large concourse of citizens met him about a mile from town and escorted him to the Clinton House in a open carriage. He was welcomed to the town in a short speech by E. P. Oliphant, to which he replied in a speech of about three to five minutes... It seems that everybody had got it into their noggins that he was a large man, consequently they were disappointed to find him a small one.\"","\"This is a day of sad gloom in our town. The Cholera in its most malignant form commenced its savages here yesterday. I think the first occurred about 8 AM and died about noon. Since that time 7 have died and there are others that are sick that may terminate fatally. It is so far confined to one street principally none having occurred but in the vicinity of that street. The gloom and alarm here you can hardly conceive, many have left town and many more I think will leave.\"","\"The woman arrested sometimes ago for killing the Watchman, has been tried and acquitted on the ground that she committed the murder in Self-Defense. Charles Austin, Marye's Brother, was to be tried for seduction and breach of promise of marriage but the case was compromised before it came into court by his Father paying the girl's father five hundred and fifty dollars. Another girl sued Skiles Austin for a case of the same nature. The male portion of the family have turned out badly.\"","\"I saw this morning an account of another battle fought between the Americans and the Mexicans which lasted sometime. During the action, lieut. Thomas Jordan and many other gallant officers were wounded. I reckon Mr. Jordan will be much grieved to hear that his son has happened to such a sad accident but it will be of some consoloation to him to think that it was done in defense of his country.\" \"Brid. Gen. Joshua Howe fo this place received orders from the president this morning to call together the militia of this country and march to the field of battle on the 22nd of June. I would like to know if there is any likelihood of many being taken away from Luray.\"","\"We were detained at Harpers Ferry nearly two days and saw a great many curiosities there, one of which was the U States armory, a great curiosity indeed.\"","\"We have had a warm political contest here but all is lost. J.K. Polk will certainly be president of the US. I am disappointed beyond measure. I could not have believed he could have beaten our gallant old Harry, but it is all over, and we must make the best of it.\"","\"I am going to school at Madison College, do not let the word College deceive you any person would naturally suppose that it was a large flourishing institution but they would be wonderfully mistaken. For it is nothing compared with the Luray Academy when it was under the admirable superintendence of G.W. Grayson of Bandylegs as we used to call him.\"","\"I wish he had been here last Sunday Morning to witness the departure of the Fayette County Volunteers for Mexico, it was an imposing sight.\"","\"I felt like jumping up and cracking my heels together when i heard that Colb of Georgie was elected speaker of the house and then the Chairmen of all the important committees in the senate are pro-slavery men. Such a Triumph of the south puts the abolitionist about here considerably down in the mouth. What do you think of the President's message, I think it small potatoes.\"","\"There has been a good deal of excitement her since the election and it seems that the Whigs have beat the Democrats in this state and the Democrats had beat the Whigs in Ohio. Great efforts will be made by each party to carry this state in November for President.\"","\"I was a little surprised last Thursday morning when I got up to discover an attempt to breakin the store during the night. They bored holes with an auger through the door next to the street with the intention to get out the key, I suppose, but they did not succeed. They were scared off by the watchmen. If they had gotten in, i think they would have met with rather a warm reception. I did not hear them as I slept upstains, but if they had come up there, I had the thing that would have made them get out a little quicker than they got in.\" \"There seems to be a gang of villians about here for awhile. They have attempted to fire buildings and do other mischief. One rogue has been safely lodged in jail for breaking in a store in Parkersburg, Virginia and robbed it of $200.\"","\"The University of Virginia receives an annuity of $15,000 from the state and one of the conditions on which it receives it is that there shall be one student from every congressional district from the state educated free of charge for tuition and boarding. I could perhaps get in there from the Paige District, but it would make me feel a little too degraded to be educated at the expense of the state. Besides, the Virginia University is one of the best, if not the very best, college in the United States.\"","\"We stayed in Washington city until 5:00 Saturday evening. We went to the president's house, the public grounds, the Washington Monument, the Equestrian Statue of Jackson, the Capitol, the Patent Office. I enclose a five dollar note which I got from Mr. Grove. It turns out to be counterfeit.\"","\"The honorable James Buchanan passed through here last Monday and made a short speech to the students. I was very well pleased both with the speech and the man. Once does not see any of the outward peculiarities which are sometimes taken for characteristics of greatness, except indeed the deep cunning expressed by his eyes or the sharpness and prominence of the chin.\"","\"There was a murder committed but a short distance from there. The murder was a negro supposed to be a runaway and stabbed up a white man for trying to arrest him and made his escape.\" \"William says he has volunteer for Texas, tell him if he is very eager to her there an oppotunity not offers for staying frive years so if he wants to go bad he had better come on here immediately as there are now officers here from the army recruiting.\"","\"There was a great animal show here yesterday and wax works and four white negro boys their father and mother are said to be black and these naturally white, their noses are flat and their hair white and curly and have every resemblance of a negro except their eyes and feet. I saw a man after the show was over and said he pulled out a bunch of his hair to ascertain whether he had on a wig or not and found that he had not.\"","Letter from John Booton from 1851 about escaped enslaved persons from Virginia and the battle that ensued over them being arrested and the free Black persons and abolitionists that got involved and were ready to fight for them, really fantastic: \"We had a great excitement here last Monday on account of the arrest of some runaway negroes from Virginia. There were warrants issued for the arrest of five fugitives. Two of them were taken at Robstown on the Loughegheny River, but the free blacks and abolitionists raised a mob, rescued the slaves and cut some of the officers. Two others were arrested in Brownsville and after creating a good deal of excitement were brought to Uniontown for trial. After they had been lodged in jail news came that there was a considerable body of armed negroes headed by one or two abolitionists coming from Brownsville to attempt a rescue. In hearing this the sheriff ordered out the military to maintain the laws. A part of the darkies reported to be coming, come in town one at a time. Finding the soldiers ready and anxious for a fight they left town without ceremony. Money was raised to indemnify the owners and the slaves set at liberty.\"","\"A great number of volunteer soldiers passed through here within the past week for Mexico. I also saw two Indians pass through yesterday on the stages going home from Washington City. They belong to the Caw tribes in a remote part of Missouri. They were bare headed and nothing to cover their body but a blanket thrown carelessly over their shoulders and a pair of shoes. it would be impossible for me to describe the beads and jewelry of various kinds about their persons. They could speak English Tolerably well.\"","\"She seems to decline fast but she does not appear to suffer much severe paint often. Dr Henkel's medicine weakened her very fast while taking to Dr Kim came in to see her and advised her together with Dr Crane to discontinue the use of it\"","\"On Friday last Samuel S. Austin brother of Mary, was killed on the hill this side of Brownsville, by the bursting of a wall swivel, that is a Mexican gun made of brass and weighing between 100 and 125 pounds. A piece of it about 10 inches long and 1 inch thick struck him in the abdoment or rather his thigh and mashed the hip bone, throwing clear out a part of the joint nearly as large as the half of a hen's egg and tearing out his entrails. he had gone down the Ohio river to Wheeling to meet the volunteers from this county just returning from Mexico.\" \"The other accident resulted in the death of a little boy a few days previous to that. He was the son of Mr. Peter Kremer of this place and was hanging with his hands to the coupling pole of a wagon and the driver not knowing he was there stopped and commenced backing the wagon, when the little boy fell and the wheel passed right over his neck, breaking it and causing instant death.\"","\"I wasvery busy for a while after Mr. Fetzer left here for Wheeling. You said in your letter that Doctor Robertson has sold his farm to David Kibler for $900 and has moved to the West. I don't recollect any David Kibler unless he is the son of Philip Kibler.\"","\"I have got about 5 or 6 hundred silk worms which keep me very busy of mornings and evenings feeding them and shifting them on fresh leaves. I feed them on the natural mulberry and James William on the Morus Multicaulis. My worms appear to grow faster than his.\"","\"I left your overshoes at the Post Office at New Market to be returned to you, I will send those Saddlesbags and Overcoat in Robert's Trunk.\"","Nice handwritten invitation to John and Robert to attent a social party at the Washington House in Luray signed by all the managers.","\"I saw your cousin, J.K. Booton last Tuesday, I believe he was in usual health. He is now captain of the company that your father had the command of before his decease.\"","\"I see by the newspapers that the Democrats have done the thing up brown at the election in the Old Dominion. As far as heard from they have already a majority of seven over what they had in the last legislature. How is it in Page, is Boswell or Keyser elected?\"","\"Since the treaty with Mexico has been concluded a great number of soldiers going home passed through this place. The most of them looked the worse for the war, there were several distinguished officers of high rank among them, that that I saw were, General Pillow, Quitman, Cadwalder and last but not least Major General William Butler of Kentucky, the Democratic Candidate for Vice President.\" \"General Patterson and Shields also went through here but I did not see them..The Whigs and Democrats both have polls up. The Whig pole is 210 feet high...There was a discussion at the Whig Pole on Friday night between AJ Ogle and J.S. Dawson, the former the Whig Candidate for Congress and the latter the Democratic one for the same office\"","\"We had a grand illumination of the town about a week ago in celebration of the surrender of the city of Vera Cruz.Capt S.S. Austin has just ? From Mexico, he went about 3 months ago by himself but afterwards joined the 3rd artillery and served as 1st Lieutenant in the attack on Vera Cruz.\" \"He has a prospect of selling out here too and if he does I think he will go to Missouri probably after that concern is closed in Baltimore. His business calls him to Missouri now for two or three weeks.Say nothing about this out of the Family for he does not wish it mentioned to any person I know.\"","\"There is an old colonel by the name of Semaroski lecturing on Napoleon Bonaparte he served under Napoleon in the French war, 23 years. He has been in 202 battles he has a very large scar from his mouth to his ear and a very large lump on his side where he was wounded with a cannonball. He is also a minister of the Gospel a Lutheran by profession.He was born in Poland and educated in France and moved to Indiana after the French Revolution","\"I was going to write to you last Sunday but as Gen Taylor was expected to pass through here this week. I put it off in order to give you an account of his reception and description of his person.He arrived here yesterday evening at 7 precisely and remained over night. A large concourse of citizens met him about a mile from town and escorted him to the Clinton House in an open carriage. He was welcomed to the town in a short speech by E.P. Oliphant, to which he replied in a speech of about three to five minutes..It seems that everybody had got it into their noggins that he was a large man, consequently they were disappointed to find him a small one\"","\"This day is a day of sad gloom in our town. The Cholera in its most malignant form commenced its savages here yesterday. I think the first occured about 8 AM and died about noon. Since that time 7 have died and there are others that are sick that may terminate fatally. It is so far confined to one street principally non having occured but in the vicinity of that street. The gloom and alarm here you can hardly conceive, many have left town and many more I think will leave.\"","\"Did you see Belle Austin's Husband while you were in Uniontown? He is a whopper. Considerably over six feet. I saw a catalog of the Steubenville Seminary a few days ago which had the name of Margret Thompson from Luray, Virginia in it. Pray, who is she? Is she Dr. Thompson's daughter? The seminary is only a days ride from this place.\"","\"I hope Daniel Kibler's letter has not put Charlie in the notion of going to the West. I suppose from what he says that his father has taken up some government or vacant land, as it is called.\"","\"The Niggers are very numerous here and very impudent. A few evenings since a big black fellow who thought himself as googd as anybody undertook to make some students here from Kentucky and some of the other slave states, get out of his road. They even convinced him he had waked up the wrong passengers. They gave the negro a little the soundest cudgeling he ever had. The whole body of the negroes become outraged at this and armed themselves with guns, pistols, bowie knives, axes, and clubs swearing vengeance on the white fellows that whipped their colored brother and if the rest of the students came to their assistance, prepared for a general batte. They did not proceed to violence but contented themselves by getting out warrants for the arrest of the students concerned in the affray. Some think the disturbance will not end here but that during the coming vacation while a good many of the students are at home the negroes will attempt to overpower those that remain here. All I can say is that if they do there will be blood spilled. The blacks are nearly all armed. To make the matter worse a good many of the inhabitants take side with the niggers. How I despise such people. I have hardly benevolence enough to wish them a happy hereafter. I have never had any difficulty with the blacks or their white allies and hope I shall not have.\"","\"We had a great excitement here last Monday on account of the arrest of some runaway negroes from Virginia. There were warrants issued for the arrest of five fugitives. Two of them were taken at Robstown on the Loughegheny River, but the free blacks and abolitionists raised a mob, rescued the slaves and cut some of the officers. Two others were arrested in Brownsville and after creating a good deal of excitement were brought to Uniontown for trial. After they had been lodged in jail news came that there was a considerable body of armed negroes headed by one or two abolitionists coming from Brownsville to attempt a rescue. In hearing this the sheriff orfered out the military to maintain the laws. A part of the darkies reported to be coming, come in town one at a time. Finding the soldiers ready and anxious for a fight they left town without ceremony. Money was raised to indemnify the owners and the slaves set at liberty.\"","\"Rob's little boy, Austin got kicked by a horse about ten days ago and had his collar bone broken. It still had to be fastened to its place but he does not complain of it hurting him and and is running about as if nothing unusual had happened to him. He is one of the boldest and most reckless boys I ever saw.\"","\"She seems to decline fast but she does not appear to suffer much severe pain often. Dr Henkel's medicine weakened her very fast while taking to Dr Kim came in to see here and advised her together with Dr Crane to discontinue the use of it.\"","\"James W Modesitt Sheriff of Page County on the 6th day of July last and enclosed a copy of each together with a list of Free Negroes and transmitted them by mail to your office.\"","Indenture Document, Will, Work calculations","\"1824 Slave Document being an appraisal and dividing up of 21 Slaves, they are all named in the document.\"","\"Document from 1824 being a 3 page complaint about a slave that was hired for a year threatening to run away with her husband. Her husband actually comes and demands that he sell her back to the previous owner or she will runaway.","A document from Charles Modesitt from Page County from 1857 that includes listing the number of Free Negroes in the town at 3 cents each, there were 48 at the time"],"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_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Booton, Lucy Mary Modesitt"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"persname_ssim":["Booton, Lucy Mary Modesitt"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":110,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T03:42:57.932Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of the Modesitt-Booton families of Luray, Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of papers relating to Lucy Marye of Luray, Virginia who married James Modesitt in 1815. She was widowed in 1827 and remarried James Booton in 1830. Lucy was born to Peter and Eleanor Marye and was sister to William Staige Marye, who is considered one of the founders of Luray, Virginia Also included are letters by John Booton and others relating to slavery and politics, children's copy books, account books, a broadside, invoices, legal contracts and documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll of the following, description and excerpts, was provided by the seller and has not been verified: \"The archive of Lucy Marye of Luray, Virginia who married James Modesitt in 1815, who died in 1827, Lucy then married James Booton in 1830. (1809-1880 with the large majority of items being from the 1820s-1850s). Lucy was born to Peter and Eleanor Marye and was sister to William Staige Marye, who is considered one of the founders of Luray, Virginia.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are copy books by the children, Sarah, Wyatt Stage and others, from the 1840s and 1850s. They range from a few pages to several with around 70 pages. They are all handwritten and have areas for copying the same line over and over again along with other areas for class notes and exercises. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eConfederate Bond Coupon from 1864 \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSmall Broadside for selling the business of Robert Modisett, selling the entire stock 1850s \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e18 page account book for items including Hog Skins, Squirrel Skins, Sheep Skins and other items from 1834 \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSmall Account Book/Ledger including clothing items from 1835 \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2 Page Handwritten Poem written by John Booton 1844 at Luray Academy Diary of Charles Modisett as a Teacher of the Public White School in the Springfield District from 1880, including enrollment, attendance, ages of kids, along with a selection of his notes as teacher. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eInvoices many several pages long some for medical items from Jonas Crane, a doctor in the area, some for blacksmith work, several for work on shoes and clothes Receipts including slave tax receipts Indentures and Deeds for land and property \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSeveral Large Fold Lists of Land Grants \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSome Books and Journals including New England Primer from the 1830s and 1840s Prayer book and hymnal \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGroup of 15 Circulars for the Commissioner of Revenue for Virginia from the 1840s and 1850s, they belonged to Charles Modesitt who was the Commissioner in Page County \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e4 page Policy of Insurance from the Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia at Winchester from 1853 \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Confederate Bond Coupon \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1864 Several Engraved Rewards of Merit for the Children from the 1840s-1860s \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNice License for Private Entertainment by Charles B Modesitt \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1860 Handwritten note for the Election of 1853, listing all the votes from Congress, Senate and House from Price's Mill, Brintz's Mill, Mohler's Mille, Honeyville, Springfield, Rileysville, Oakham and Luray with Armstrong, Butler, Faulkner, Buswell, Keyser and Spitter all running for office \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSmall Printed Broadside of the Faculty of Jefferson College from 1849 \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDocuments dealing with the death and estate of James Modesitt from 1827\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten Invitation to John and Robert to attend a social party at the Washington House in Luray, signed by all the managers \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1845 Letters The majority are 3-4 pages long. Interesting group of letters from G Gordon, who was a cousin. They were from Honeyville, Virginia to Luray from the 1830s\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Hawksbill, Virginia from William R Almond, a well known businessman in Page County from the 1820s \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters from her son while he was at school at Jefferson Medical College from 1849-1853 \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters from her son, Robert Modesitt, as he traveled and started his business in Pennsylvania 1840s. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Lucy Gordon from 1840 from Slate Mills, Virginia \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA few letters from James Modesitt to Lucy 1810s \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA few letters from Lucy to her children\" \"There are two literary societies composed of the students of the college. They meet once a week and in rotation have lectures, compositions, and a debate. I am a member of the largest one, the Adelphian, and last night I spoke two rounds on the debate. The first time I ever made a speech. The question for debate was this. Can a government be perpetuated which is not founded on a religion?\" \"I have one important matter to communicate and that is that I am going to be married in May unless something strange, very strange, turns up. I hope you are willing to trust my judgment in the selection of a companion for life. I think my choice is a prudent and happy one and one that cannot fail to please you. I am sure if you love me or any child you have, you will love her. I wish you could see her.\" \"I saw this morning an account of another battle fought between the Americans and the Mexicans which lasted sometime. During the action, lieut. Thomas Jordan and many other gallant officers were wounded. I reckon Mr. Jordan will be much grieved to hear that his son has happened to such a sad accident but it will be of some consolation to him to think that it was done in defense of his country. Brid. Gen. Joshua Howe of this place received orders from the president this morning to call together the militia of this country and march to the field of battle on the 22nd of June. I would like to know if there is any likelihood of many being taken away from Luray.\" \"We have had a warm political contest here but all is lost. JK Polk will certainly be president of the US. I am disappointed beyond measure. I could not have believed he could have beaten our gallant old Harry, but it is all over, and we must make the best of it.\" \"I was a little surprised last Thursday morning when I got up to discover an attempt to break in the store during the night. They bored holes with an anger through the door next to the street with the intention to get out the key, I suppose, but they did not succeed. They were scared off by the watchmen. If they had gotten in, I think they would have met with rather a warm reception. I did not hear them as I sleep upstairs, but if they had come up there, I had the thing that would have made them get out a little quicker than they got in. There seems to be a gang of villains about here for awhile. They have attempted to fire buildings and do other mischief. One rouge has been safely lodged in jail for breaking in a store in Parkersburg, Virginia and robbed it of $200.\" \"The honorable James Buchanan passed through here last Monday and made a short speech to the students. I was very well pleased both with the speech and the man. One does not see any of the outward peculiarities which are sometimes taken for characteristics of greatness, except indeed the deep cunning expressed by his eyes or the sharpness and prominence of the chin.\" \"I hope Daniel Kibler's letter has not put Charlie in the notion of going to the West. I suppose from what he says that his father has taken up some government or vacant land, as it is called.\" \"The University of Virginia receives an annuity of $15,000 from the state and one of the conditions on which is receives it is that there shall be one student from every congressional district from the state educated free of charge for tuition and boarding. I could perhaps get in there from the Paige District, but it would make me feel a little too degraded to be educated at the expense of the state. Besides, the Virginia University is one of the best, if not the very best, college in the United States.\" Letter from Port Gibson, Mississippi from Mary Marye describing her life from 1848. \"We stayed in Washington city until 5:00 Saturday evening. We went to the president's house, the public grounds, the Washington Monument, the Equestrian Statue of Jackson, the Capitol, the Patent Office. I enclose a five dollar note which I got from Mr. Grove. It turns out to be counterfeit.\" \"I received a letter from Dr. Rust some weeks ago. He offers me two fifths of his practice if I will go in to co-partnership with him in the spring. I answered it not accepting positively his offer, though I think it is not unlikely that I will.\" \"Did you see Belle Austin's husband while you were in Uniontown? He is a whopper. Considerably over six feet. I saw a catalog of the Steubenville Seminary a few days ago which had the name of Margret Thompson from Luray, Virginia in it. Pray, who is she? Is she Dr. Thompson's daughter? The seminary is only a days ride from this place.\" \"I have heard alarms of fire every night since I have been here. The first night I got here there was a fire very near in sight of my window besides three others. The town seemed to be in commotion all night. I have gotten along from the time I left home. I will give you first and account from the day I left. The first day I went to Shenandoah Furnace. The next day I went to Harrisonburg and the next day to New Market where I remained until Wednesday. I walked from New Market to Mount Jackson, seven miles. It was not the day for the stage when I left New Market.\" \"I suppose you will wonder what brought me here. I will answer that. It was through the improper intimacy of the young man that was here with a very respectable young lady. In order to keep out of trouble, he left this place last Sunday for parts unknown. He did not go without the knowledge of brother Robert. He has always acted highly honorable with him.\" Letters from Lucy Booton to her children from Slatevilles, Virginia. Letter to Dr F.W.G. Thomas, who became a well known physician in Missouri looking for employment from 1852 Nice letter from Rockingham with a nice folk art drawing of a bird with a branch at the top of the letter Great letter from James to Lucy a few months before they were married in 1815, \"I have purchased my Brother's blacksmith's and expect to start out to fetch them in on Wednesday next. I am making preparation to settle in Luray. I find that I shall get sufficient employ in my line of business and a great supply of work for my smiths. I believe it will be far more advantageous to me to live in town than out in the neighborhood as I cannot do anything at farming with my present force.my desire for your precious company is great tho I cannot see you now, only in mind, as soon after I return from the Allegany if possible I shall visit you, you may look for me on the Saturday before the fourth Sunday in the present month.\" Letter from James to Lucy from 1820, \"Business goes on well, Rose is very attentive doing her best to please her mistress, when she comes home. She is very attentive to the children. I think my dear it will be very convenient after I come from the Ohio State for you to visit our mother again before Christmas..truly, truly your till death Jas Modesitt\" \"I have sent a vial of spirits of Mendereri, you will please give cousin Lucy a teaspoon full every hour, when she seems feverish, until her skin becomes moist, I have also sent some creamer tartar she can use to make the magueria operate should it not operate without\" \"She seems to decline fast but she does not appear to suffer much severe paint often. Dr Henkel's medicine weakened her very fast while taking to Dr Kim came in to see her and advised her together with Dr Crane to discontinue the use of it\" \"Cousin Jno Booton wrote to me a few weeks ago saying that Dr Rust was desirous that I should return in the spring to practice with him.I don't know what to say about it. I shall write to John asking what share Dr Rust is willing to give and how long he proposes the partnership should last. This will give me time to hear from you on the subject.\" \"I sent by him one dozen bottles of McMunn's Elixir of opium for Lucy. It will help to control her cough and whenever she requires an opiate whether in the shape of Laudaman Panegone, Black Drop, Morphia, or Solid Opium\" \"On Friday last Samuel S Austin brother of Mary, was killed on the hill this side of Brownsville, by the bursting of a wall swivel, that is a Mexican gun made of brass and weighing between 100 and 125 pounds. A piece of it about 10 inches long and 1 inch thick struck him in the abdoment or rather his thigh and mashed the hip bone, throwing clear out a part of the joint nearly as large as the half of a hen's egg and tearing out his entrails.He had gone down the Ohio river to Wheeling to meet the volunteers from this county just returning from Mexico\" \"The other accident resulted in the death of a little boy a few days previous to that. He was the son of Mr Peter Kremer of this place and was hanging with his hands to the coupling pole of a wagon and the driver not knowing he was there stopped and commenced backing the wagon, when the little boy fell and the wheel passed right over his neck, breaking it and causing instant death,\" \"I was going to write to you last Sunday but as Gen Taylor was expected to pass through here this week. I put it off in order to give you an account of his reception and description of his person. He arrived here yesterday evening at 7 precisely and remained over night. A large concourse of citizens met him about a mile from town and escorted him to the Clinton House in an open carriage. He was welcomed to the town in a short speech by E.P. Oliphant, to which he replied in a speech of about three to five minutes..It seems that everybody had got it into their noggins that he was a large man, consequently they were disappointed to find him a small one\" Letter from Madison County from 1833 to James Booton, \"Dear Sir I am informed by Mr Thomas Clore that you wish to purchase a farm on this side of the mountain. I have a small one. I will sell on accommodating terms the tract contains 137 acres, it is on the south side of the Robison River\" \"I was very busy for a while after Mr Fetzer left here for Wheeling. You said in your letter that Doctor Robertson has sold his farm to David Kibler for $900 and has moved to the West. I don't recollect any David Kibler unless he is a son of old Philip Kibler.\" \"Emily is to be married next month, Mrs Ruby has left him, he has treated her very badly. Mr D brought her home to live, She is going to apply for a divorce, be kind enough to burn this letter.\" \"I thought I would wait until we heard from our election. We gave a small vote to what it should have been, about 750 majority where it out the have been 1150 Scott Vote in page\" \"You said in your letter that Uncle James Marye had just gone home from Mothers, he must be getting younger instead of older if he can stand so many fatiguing journeys across the ridge.\" \"We have a had a great deal of wet, The National road has been in a horrid condition, all winter, it is getting a little better now. You have a nice set of candidates for the Senate, I must confess. The county candidates will do a little better.\" \"There is an old colonel by the name of Semaroski lecturing on Napoleon Bonaparte he served under Napoleon in the French war, 23 years. He has been in 202 battles he has a very large scar from his mouth to his ear and a very large lump on his side where he was wounded with a cannonball. He is also a minister of the Gospel a Lutheran by profession.He was born in Poland and educated in France and moved to Indiana after the French Revolution\" \"We had a grand illumination of the town about a week ago in celebration of the surrender of the city of Vera Cruz.Capt S.S. Austin has just ? From Mexico, he went about 3 months ago by himself but afterwards joined the 3rd artillery and served as 1st Lieutenant in the attack on Vera Cruz.\" \"He has a prospect of selling out here too and if he does I think he will go to Missouri probably after that concern is closed in Baltimore. His business calls him to Missouri now for two or three weeks.Say nothing about this out of the Family for he does not wish it mentioned to any person I know.\" \"Since the treaty with Mexico has been concluded a great number of soldiers going home passed through this place. The most of them looked the worse for the war, there were several distinguished officers of high rank among them, that that I saw were, General Pillow, Quitman, Cadwalder and last but not least Major General William Butler of Kentucky, the Democratic Candidate for Vice President.\" \"General Patterson and Shields also went through here but I did not see them..The Whigs and Democrats both have polls up. The Whig pole is 210 feet high...There was a discussion at the Whig Pole on Friday night between AJ Ogle and J.S. Dawson, the former the Whig Candidate for Congress and the latter the Democratic one for the same office\" \"I see by the newspapers that the Democrats have done the thing up brown at the election in the Old Dominion. As far as heard from they have already a majority of seven over what they had in the last legislature. How is it in Page, is Boswell or Keyser elected?\" \"I start for the West in the morning but not very far, yet my trip will be longer, I fear than will be entirely pleasant to me. I have hope of getting back before 1st April, will be much pleased to be disappointed to the contrary. My trip west from which I have just returned, was a pleasant one with the exception of cold weather. I experienced a river severe time crossing the Alleghany Mountains\" Nice letter from L.C. Marye from Fredericksburg, 1845, \"Aunt Lucy, You will please inform me what were the movements of your father during the Revolution of our country, if you have any information on this please inform me.\" \"The expectation of a war with Mexico has caused great excitement and go where you will almost you will find that the subject of their discussion, in fact the surgeon of the Union Town Companies have had a great many applicants under pretence of different diseases to try to get off from going to war\" \"I am going to school at Madison College, do not let the word College deceive you any person would naturally suppose that it was a large flourishing institution but they would be wonderfully mistaken. For it is nothing to be compared with the Luray Academy when it was under the admirable superintendence of G.W. Grayson or Bandylegs as we used to call him.\" \"We were detained at Harpers Ferry nearly two days and saw a great many curiosities there, one of which was the U States armory, a great curiosity indeed\" \"I saw your cousin, J.K. Booton last Tuesday, I believe he was in usual health. He is now captain of the company that your father had the command of before his decease\" \"much more tedious journey than we anticipated I saw a great many strange things at least strange to me. Among them was the railroad and steam cars in operation by being thrown off the road from the fact of the North River being past fording we were compelled to go ten miles out of our way or lay by at Frankfort until the next day, that was a dreadful days travel, a most wretched road from Frankfort to Cumberland\" \"Rob's little boy, Austin got kicked by a horse about ten days ago and had his collar bone broken. It still had to be fastened to its place but he does not complain of it hurting him any and is running about as if nothing unusual had happened to him. He is one of the boldest and most reckless boys I ever saw.\" \"I would recommend this plan to him, to leave Luray Friday morning on horseback in time to get to New Market for the stages going from Winchester to Staunton in the day time..stay all night and leave at day light for the Rockbridge Alum Springs and get here Saturday evening, I suppose if he were to come by Lexington he would possibly find the connection between the stages a little better.\" \"Robert and all his family are well. He had Lucy's and Austin's Daguerreotypes taken a few days ago\" \"Several families from Dage County have passed through here going West, within the last week or two among them were William Wood, Washington Ruffner, and old Mr Varner going home from Ohio. Has the company that started from Luray a few days before I did, get back yet?.The widow and children of Sam Austin came back here last night from Philadelphia where she went after his death to see her mother\" \"There has been a good deal of excitement here since the election and it seems that the Whigs have beat the Democrats in this state and the Democrats had beat the Whigs in Ohio.Great efforts will be made by each party to carry this state in November for President\" \"There was arrested yesterday and taken to jail a man by the name of Thomas Evans for the murder of Hayden Bliss on 19th of November 1845. After this fatal affray Evans says he went to Ohio but feeling uneasy and uncomfortable there he thought it would be better for him to return home. We are told he made no resistance to the officer who arrested him but quietly and peaceably submitted to his control and direction. Evans says he did it in self defense. He murdered him by chopping Blisses head in a horrid manner with a corn cutter. The murdered man was a brother in law of the murderer.\" \"I left your overshoes at the Post Office at New Market to be returned to you, I will send those Saddlebags and Overcoat in Roberts Trunk\" \"We arrived here on the 4th of the month being detained by the snow two days at Harpers Ferry. I was in the United States Armory at the Ferry it was a great curiosity to me indeed to see more than three hundred person employed in making guns.\" \"I felt like jumping up and cracking my heels together when I heard that Colb of Georgia was elected speaker of the house and then the Chairmen of all the important committees in the senate are pro-slavery men. Such a triumph of the south puts the abolitionist about here considerably down in the mouth. What do you think of the President's Message, I think it small potatoes\" \"I wish he had been here last Sunday Morning to witness the departure of the Fayette County Volunteers for Mexico, it was an imposing sight.\" \"Your Turnpike affair seems to be looking up. Perhaps when I visit Page again I shall have the pleasure of crossing the Massanutten Mountains in the stage. I suppose Stage will have an opportunity for making some money by it and there is no doubt but that he will improve it\" \"The people here are very apprehensive of the cholera, none has occurred in town yet, but there have been several cases at the poor house, a good many deaths by cholera have taken place in Brownsville.\" \"I suppose you have heard of the steam boat explosion here last week. It was a melancholy thing indeed, there was at the time and since died from injuries, twenty-six or seven persons. The boat was entirely new and was about to make a short trip for trial and had not left shore fifty yards when the boiler burst and made the dreadful destruction of life, there was eighty-two persons on board and only fifteen escaped unhurt\" \"I suppose you are now acting sheriff and a laborious job you have of it no doubt. The duties of the officer in Virginia are much greater than they are here. The Sheriffs in Penn have no taxes to collect\" \"I was on a tour in the West. I wrote him from Wheeling, I left Wheeling on Sunday in the Steam Boat Messenger and arrived here about 12 yesterday. I leave here this evening for Nashville, Tennessee on the steam boat, Martha.\" Nice letter from Louisville, Kentucky while traveling \"The woman arrested sometime ago for killing the Watchman, has been tried and acquitted on the ground that she committed the murder in Self-Defense. Charles Austin, Marye's Brother, was to be tried for seduction and breach of promise of marriage but the case was compromised before it came into court by his Father paying the girl's father five hundred and fifty dollars. Another girl sued Skiles Austin for a case of the same nature.The male portion of that family have turned out badly\" \"This is a day of sad gloom in our town. The Cholera in its most malignant form commenced its savages here yesterday. I think the first occurred about 8 AM and died about noon. Since that time 7 have died and there are others that are sick that may terminate fatally. It is so far confined to one street principally non having occurred but in the vicinity of that street.The gloom and alarm here you can hardly conceive, many have left town and many more I think will leave.\" \"I have got about 5 or 6 hundred silk worms which keep me very busy of mornings and evenings feeding them and shifting them on fresh leaves. I feed them on the natural mulberry and James William on the Morus Multicaulis. My worms appear to grow faster than his.\" Nice letter from James to Lucy from 1825 \"Peter set of for Columbia, 6th of this month he went from here to Culpeper intending to take the stage and go on immediately but when he got there it was gone.He then took the stage and went to Orange CH where he intended to take the Fredericksburg and Charlottesville Stage but when it arrived it was so crowded that he could not get a seat.he therefore directed his trunk to be sent on to Charlottesville and set off on foot he walked to Gordonsville 10 miles to breakfast.Mechanicsville 6 miles to dinner then to MacCauley's tavern\" \"He hired 2 horses and a boy to carry him to Silmington 12 miles then to Columbia which waqs 9 miles, he walked, he got there Sunday evening.He got on board a boat loaded with tobacco bound to Richmond and went 12 miles by way of the river to Cartersville\" \"1824 Slave Document being an appraisal and dividing up of 21 Slaves, they are all named in the document.\" \"Interesting document from 1824 being a 3 page complaint about a slave that was hired for a year threatening to run away with her husband. Her husband actually comes and demands that he sell her back to the previous owner or she will runaway, it's really interesting. Letter from John Booton while at college from 1850 \"The Niggers are very numerous here and very important. A few evenings since a big black fellow who thought himself as good as anybody undertook to make some students here from Kentucky and some of the other slave states, get out of his road. The even convinced him he had waked up the wrong passengers. They gave the negro a little the soundest cudgeling he ever had. The whole body of the negroes became outraged at this and armed themselves with guns, pistols, bowie knives, axes, and clubs swearing vengeance on the white fellows that whipped their colored brother and if the rest of the students came to their assistance, prepared for a general battle.they did not proceed to violence but contented themselves by getting out warrants for the arrest of the students concerned in the affray.Some think the disturbance will not end here but that during the coming vacation while a good many of the students are at home the negroes will attempt to overpower those that remain here. All I can say is that if they do there will be blood spilled. The blacks are nearly all armed. To make the matter worse a good many of the inhabitants take sides with the niggers. How I despise such people. I have hardly benevolence enough to wish them a happy hereafter.I have never had any difficulty with the blacks or their white allies and hope I shall not have.\" Letter from John Booton from 1851 about runaway Virginia slaves and the battle that ensued over them being arrested and the free blacks and abolitionists that get involved and ready to fight for them, really fantastic: \"We had a great excitement here last Monday on account of the arrest of some runaway negroes from Virginia. There were warrants issued for the arrest of five fugitives. Two of them were taken at Robstown on the Loughegheny River, but the free blacks and abolitionists raised a mob, rescued the slaves and cut some of the officers. Two others were arrested in Brownsville and after creating a good deal of excitement were brought to Uniontown for trial. After they had been lodged in jail news came that there was a considerable body of armed negroes headed by one or two abolitionists coming from Brownsville to attempt a rescue. In hearing this the sheriff ordered out the military to maintain the laws. A part of the darkies reported to be coming, come in town one at a time. Finding the soldiers ready and anxious for a fight they left town without ceremony. Money was raised to indemnify the owners and the slaves set at liberty.\" 1855 Letter from Criglersville to Luray \"Mr Lindsay has two negroes with the fever, bad cases, I attend to them and go there every other day. It is seven miles from here. He is the first man in the county that gave me substantial encouragement. He says he has more confidence in the over the ridge doctors than he has in those about here. They are dangerously ill but if I can cure them and I think I can it will be a strong spoke in my wheel\" Letter from Charles Modisett from Page County 1860 \"James W Modesitt Sheriff of page County on the 6th day of July last and enclosed a copy of each together with a list of Free Negroes and transmitted them by mail to your office\" A document from Charles Modesitt from Page County from 1857 that includes listing the number of Free Negroes in the town at 3 cents each, there were 48 at the time Letter from William Almond from Hawksbill to Luray 1825 \"There will be more done to them by Mr Modesitt's estate than my utmost fears anticipate so much that it will absolutely necessary for me to sell all the black people, and I very much question whether they together with all the rest of the personal estate will be sufficient to pay all the bonded and guardian debts.\" Letter from John Booton from 1846 about Albino Black Children There was a great animal show here yesterday and wax works and four white negro boys their father and mother are said to be black and these naturally white, their noses are flat and their hair white and curly and have every resemblance of a negro except their eyes and feet. I saw a man after the show was over and said he pulled out a bunch of his hair to ascertain whether he had on a wig or not and found that he had not.\" Letter from John Booton from 1846 \"There was a murder committed but a short distance from there. The murder was a negro supposed to be a runaway and stabbed up a white man for trying to arrest him and made his escape. William says he has volunteered for Texas, tell him if he is very eager to get there an opportunity now offers for staying five years so if he wants to go bad he had better come on here immediately as there are now officers here from the army recruiting\" Letter from John Booton Christmas Eve 1845 about a sermon by the well known Indian Missionary, John Douglas Bemo from the Seminole Tribe \"I heard a Seminole Indian preach last Sunday a week in the Presbyterian Church at this place I also heard him give a description of himself, his tribe the same night. It was very interesting indeed there was a collection made for him to distribubte amongst his tribe, he got $100 at this place, $19 of which he got out of James Peach's Family, the Indian's name was John Bemo of the seminoe tribe, a nephew of the celebrated Chief Osceola.\" Letter from John Booton from 1847 \"A great number of volunteer soldiers passed through here within the past week for Mexico. I also saw two Indians pass through yesterday on the stages going home from Washington City. They belong to the Caw tribes in a remote part of Missouri. They were bare headed and nothing to cover their body but a blanket thrown carelessly over their shoulders and a pair of shoes. It would be impossible for me to describe the beads and jewelry of various kinds about their persons. They could speak English Tolerably well.\" 1861 Confederate Document for taxes including sections about slaves by Charles Modesitt 1862 Confederate Circular from the Auditor's Office in Richmond on licenses to run distilleries.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGroup of 15 Circulars for the Commissioner of Revenue for Virginia from the 1840s and 1850s, they belonged to Charles Modesitt who was the Commissioner in Page County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 of 2. Ten Copy Books by the Children, Sarah, Wyatt Stage and others, from the 1840s and 1850s, they range from a few pages to several with around 70 pages. They are all handwritten and have areas for copying the same line over and over again along with other areas for class notes and exercises.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 of 2. Ten Copy Books by the Children, Sarah, Wyatt Stage and others, from the 1840s and 1850s, they range from a few pages to several with around 70 pages.  They are all handwritten and have areas for copying the same line over and over again along with other areas for class notes and exercises.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew England Primer , Old School and New School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy Modesitt's accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe General Laws in relation to Commissioners and Collectors of the Revenue, 1850. Laws in relation to Commissioners and Collectors of the Public Revenue, etc. 1858. Annual Reports of the Fish Commissioners of the State of Virginia, 1875-1877\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichmond Examiner enclosing a copybook exercise by John W, Modesitt, circa January 2, 1860.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConfederate Bond Coupon from 1864 Small Broadside for selling the business of Robert Modesitt, selling the entire stock 1850s 18 page account book for items including Hog Skins, Squirrel Skins, Sheep Skins and other items from 1834 Small Account Book/Ledger including clothing items from 1835 2 Page Handwritten Poem written by John Booton 1844 at Luray Academy Diary of Charles Modisett as a Teacher of the Public White School in the Springfield District from 1880, including enrollment, attendance, ages of kids, along with a selection of his notes as teacher. Prayer book and 4 page Policy of Insurance from the Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia at Winchester from 1853 Virginia Confederate Bond Coupon 1864 Several Engraved Rewards of Merit for the Children from the 1840s-1860s Nice License for Private Entertainment by Charles B Modesitt 1860 Handwritten note for the Election of 1853, listing all the votes fro Congress, Senate and House from Price's Mill, Brintz's Mill, Mohler's Mille, Honeyville, Springfield, Rileysville, Oakham and Luray with Armstrong, Butler, Faulkner, Buswell, Keyser and Spitter all running for office Small Printed Broadside of the Faculty of Jefferson College from 1849 Documents dealing with the death and estate of James Modesitt from 1827.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplaint of 1824: 3 page complaint, 1824, about a slave that was hired for a year threatening to run away with her husband. Her husband actually comes and demands that he sell her back to the previous owner or she will run away.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Dear Sir I am informed by Mr Thomas Clore that you wish to purchase a farm on this side of the mountain. I have a small one. I will sell on accommodating terms the tract contains 137 acres, it is on the south side of the Robison River\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Did you see Belle Austin's husband while you were in Uniontown? He is a whopper. Considerably over six feet. I saw a catalog of the Steubenville Seminary a few days ago which had the name of Margret Thompson from Luray, Virginia in it. Pray, who is she? Is she Dr. Thompson's daughter? The seminary is only a days ride from this place.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I hope Daniel Kibler's letter has not put Charlie in the notion of going to the West. I suppose from what he says that his father has taken up some government or vacant land, as it is called.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We stayed in Washington city until 5:00 Saturday evening. We went to the president's house, the public grounds, the Washington Monument, the Equestrian Statue of Jackson, the Capitol, the Patent Office. I enclose a five dollar note which I got from Mr. Grove. It turns out to be counterfeit.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Rob's little boy, Austin got kicked by a horse about ten days ago and had his collar bone broken. It still had to be fastened to its place but he does not complain of it hurting him any and is running about as if nothing unusual had happened to him. He is one of the boldest and most reckless boys I ever saw.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Cousin Jno Booton wrote to me a few weeks ago saying that Dr Rust was desirous that I should return in the spring to practice with him.I don't know what to say about it. I shall write to John asking what share Dr Rust is willing to give and how long he proposes the partnership should last. This will give me time to hear from you on the subject.\"\"I sent by him one dozen bottles of McMunn's Elixir of opium for Lucy.It will help to control her cough and whenever she requires an opiate whether in the shape of Laudaman Panegone, Black Drop, Morphia, or Solid Opium\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have sent a vial of spirits of Mendereri, you will please give cousin Lucy a teaspoon full every hour, when she seems feverish, until her skin becomes moist, I have also sent some creamer tartar she can use to make the magueria operate should it not operate without\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I was very busy for a while after Mr Fetzer left here for Wheeling. You said in your letter that Doctor Robertson has sold his farm to David Kibler for $900 and has moved to the West. I don't recollect any David Kibler unless he is a son of old Philip Kibler.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Aunt Lucy, You will please inform me of what were the movements of you father during the Revolution of our country, if you have any information on this please inform me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I start for the West in the morning but not very far, yet my trip will be longer, I fear than will be entirely pleasant to me. I have hope of getting back before 1st April, will be much pleased to be disappointed to the contrary. My trip west from which I have just returned, was a pleasant one with the exception of cold weather. I experienced a river severe time crossing the Alleghany Mountains\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I suppose you have heard of the steam boat explosion here last week. It was a melancholy thing indeed, there was at the time and since died from injuries, twenty-six or seven persons. The boat was entirely new and was about to make a short trip for trial and had not left shore fifty yards when the boiler burst and made the dreadful destruction of life, there was eighty-two persons on board and only fifteen escaped unhurt\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We have had a warm political contest here but all is lost. JK Polk will certainly be president of the US. I am disappointed beyond measure. I could not have believed he could have beaten our gallant old Harry, but it is all over, and we must make the best of it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We arrived here on the 4th of the month being detained by the snow two days at Harpers Ferry. I was in the United States Armory at the Ferry it was a great curiosity to me indeed to see more than three hundred person employed in making guns.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have heard alarms of fire every night since I have been here. The first night I got here there was a fire very near in sight of my window besides three others. The town seemed to be in commotion all night. I have gotten along from the time I left home. I will give you first and account from the day I left. The first day I went to Shenandoah Furnace. The next day I went to Harrisonburg and the next day to New Market where I remained until Wednesday. I walked from New Market to Mount Jackson, seven miles. It was not the day for the stage when I left New Market.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have got about 5 or 6 hundred silk worms which keep me very busy of mornings and evenings feeding them and shifting them on fresh leaves. I feed them on the natural mulberry and James William on the Morus Multicaulis. My worms appear to grow faster than his.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The University of Virginia receives an annuity of $15,000 from the state and one of the conditions on which is receives it is that there shall be one student from every congressional district from the state educated free of charge for tuition and boarding. I could perhaps get in there from the Paige District, but it would make me feel a little too degraded to be educated at the expense of the state. Besides, the Virginia University is one of the best, if not the very best, college in the United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The honorable James Buchanan passed through here last Monday and made a short speech to the students. I was very well pleased both with the speech and the man. One does not see any of the outward peculiarities which are sometimes taken for characteristics of greatness, except indeed the deep cunning expressed by his eyes or the sharpness and prominence of the chin.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There was arrested yesterday and taken to jail a man by the name of Thomas Evans for the murder of Hayden Bliss on 19th of November 1845. After this fatal affray Evans says he went to Ohio but feeling uneasy and uncomfortable there he thought it would be better for him to return home. We are told he made no resistance to the officer who arrested him but quietly and peaceably submitted to his control and direction. Evans says he did it in self defense. He murdered him by chopping Blisses head in a horrid manner with a corn cutter. The murdered man was a brother in law of the murderer\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There was a murder committed but a short distance from there. The murder was a negro supposed to be a runaway and stabbed up a white man for trying to arrest him and made his escape. William says he has volunteered for Texas, tell him if he is very eager to get there an opportunity now offers for staying five years so if he wants to go bad he had better come on here immediately as there are now officers here from the army recruiting\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere was a great animal show here yesterday and wax works and four white negro boys their father and mother are said to be black and these naturally white, their noses are flat and their hair white and curly and have every resemblance of a negro except their eyes and feet. I saw a man after the show was over and said he pulled out a bunch of his hair to ascertain whether he had on a wig or not and found that he had not.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A great number of volunteer soldiers passed through here within the past week for Mexico. I also saw two Indians pass through yesterday on the stages going home from Washington City. They belong to the Caw tribes in a remote part of Missouri. They were bare headed and nothing to cover their body but a blanket thrown carelessly over their shoulders and a pair of shoes. It would be impossible for me to describe the beads and jewelry of various kinds about their persons. They could speak English Tolerably well.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"On Friday last Samuel S Austin brother of Mary, was killed on the hill this side of Brownsville, by the bursting of a wall swivel, that is a Mexican gun made of brass and weighing between 100 and 125 pounds. A piece of it about 10 inches long and 1 inch thick struck him in the abdoment or rather his thigh and mashed the hip bone, throwing clear out a part of the joint nearly as large as the half of a hen's egg and tearing out his entrails.He had gone down the Ohio river to Wheeling to meet the volunteers from this county just returning from Mexico.\" The other accident resulted in the death of a little boy a few days previous to that. He was the son of Mr Peter Kremer of this place and was hanging with his hands to the coupling pole of a wagon and the driver not knowing he was there stopped and commenced backing the wagon, when the little boy fell and the wheel passed right over his neck, breaking it and causing instant death\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I left your overshoes at the Post Office at New Market to be returned to you, I will send those Saddlebags and Overcoat in Roberts Trunk\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNice Handwritten Invitation to John and Robert to attend a social party at the Washington House in Luray, signed by all the managers 1845\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNice letter from L.C. Marye from Fredericksburg, 1845, \"I saw your cousin, J.K. Booton last Tuesday, I believe he was in usual health. He is now captain of the company that your father had the command of before his decease\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We have a had a great deal of wet, The National road has been in a horrid condition, all winter, it is getting a little better now. You have a nice set of candidates for the Senate, I must confess. The county candidates will do a little better.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The woman arrested sometime ago for killing the Watchman, has been tried and acquitted on the ground that she committed the murder in Self-Defense. Charles Austin, Marye's Brother, was to be tried for seduction and breach of promise of marriage but the case was compromised before it came into court by his Father paying the girl's father five hundred and fifty dollars. Another girl sued Skiles Austin for a case of the same nature.The male portion of that family have turned out badly\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have one important matter to communicate and that is that I am going to be married in May unless something strange, very strange, turns up. I hope you are willing to trust my judgment in the selection of a companion for life. I think my choice is a prudent and happy one and one that cannot fail to please you. I am sure if you love me or any child you have, you will love her. I wish you could see her.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There are two literary societies composed of the students of the college. They meet once a week and in rotation have lectures, compositions, and a debate. I am a member of the largest one, the Adelphian, and last night I spoke two rounds on the debate. The first time I ever made a speech. The question for debate was this. Can a government be perpetuated which is not founded on a religion?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Aunt Lucy, You will please inform me what were the movements of your father during the Revolution of our country, if you have any information on this please inform me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The expectation of a war with Mexico has caused great excitement and go where you will almost you will find that the subject of their discussion, in fact the surgeon of the Union Town Companies have had a great many applicants under pretence of different diseases to try to get off from going to war\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The people here are very apprehensive of the cholera, none has occurred in town yet, but there have been several cases at the poor house, a good many deaths by cholera have taken place in Brownsville.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I saw this morning an account of another battle fought between the Americans and the Mexicans which lasted sometime. During the action, lieut. Thomas Jordan and many other gallant officers were wounded. I reckon Mr. Jordan will be much grieved to hear that his son has happened to such a sad accident but it will be of some consolation to him to think that it was done in defense of his country. Brid. Gen.Joshua Howe of this place received orders from the president this morning to call together the militia of this country and march to the field of battle on the 22nd of June. I would like to know if there is any likelihood of many being taken away from Luray.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We were detained at Harpers Ferry nearly two days and saw a great many curiosities there, one of which was the U States armory, a great curiosity indeed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am going to school at Madison College, do not let the word College deceive you any person would naturally suppose that it was a large flourishing institution but they would be wonderfully mistaken. For it is nothing to be compared with the Luray Academy when it was under the admirable superintendence of G.W. Grayson or Bandylegs as we used to call him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I wish he had been here last Sunday Morning to witness the departure of the Fayette County Volunteers for Mexico, it was an imposing sight.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I felt like jumping up and cracking my heels together when I heard that Colb of Georgia was elected speaker of the house and then the Chairmen of all the important committees in the senate are pro-slavery men. Such a triumph of the south puts the abolitionist about here considerably down in the mouth. What do you think of the President's Message, I think it small potatoes\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There has been a good deal of excitement here since the election and it seems that the Whigs have beat the Democrats in this state and the Democrats had beat the Whigs in Ohio. Great efforts will be made by each party to carry this state in November for President.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I was a little surprised last Thursday morning when I got up to discover an attempt to break in the store during the night. They bored holes with an auger through the door next to the street with the intention to get out the key, I suppose, but they did not succeed. They were scared off by the watchmen. If they had gotten in, I think they would have met with rather a warm reception. I did not hear them as I sleep upstairs, but if they had come up there, I had the thing that would have made them get out a little quicker than they got in. There seems to be a gang of villains about here for awhile. They have attempted to fire buildings and do other mischief. One rogue has been safely lodged in jail for breaking in a store in Parkersburg, Virginia and robbed it of $200.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Booton while at college from 1850 \"The Niggers are very numerous here and very important. A few evenings since a big black fellow who thought himself as good as anybody undertook to make some students here from Kentucky and some of the other slave states, get out of his road. The even convinced him he had waked up the wrong passengers. They gave the negro a little the soundest cudgeling he ever had. The whole body of the negroes became outraged at this and armed themselves with guns, pistols, bowie knives, axes, and clubs swearing vengeance on the white fellows that whipped their colored brother and if the rest of the students came to their assistance, prepared for a general battle. They did not proceed to violence but contented themselves by getting out warrants for the arrest of the students concerned in the affray. Some think the disturbance will not end here but that during the coming vacation while a good many of the students are at home the negroes will attempt to overpower those that remain here. All I can say is that if they do there will be blood spilled. The blacks are nearly all armed. To make the matter worse a good many of the inhabitants take sides with the niggers. How I despise such people. I have hardly benevolence enough to wish them a happy hereafter. I have never had any difficulty with the blacks or their white allies and hope I shall not have.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Booton Christmas Eve 1845 about a sermon by the well known Indian Missionary, John Douglas Bemo from the Seminole Tribe \"I heard a Seminole Indian preach last Sunday a week in the Presbyterian Church at this place I also heard him give a description of himself, his tribe the same night. It was very interesting indeed there was a collection made for him to distriubte amongst his tribe, he got $100 at this place, $19 of which he got out of James Peach's Family, the Indian's name was John Bemo of the seminoe tribe, a nephew of the celebrated Chief Osceola.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Dr F.W.G. Thomas, who became a well known physician in Missouri looking for employment from 1852. Letter from Rockingham with a folk art drawing of a bird with a branch at the top of the letter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I see by the newspapers that the Democrats have done the thing up brown at the election in the Old Dominion. As far as heard from they have already a majority of seven over what they had in the last legislature. How is it in Page, is Boswell or Keyser elected?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Since the treaty with Mexico has been concluded a great number of soldiers going home passed through this place. The most of them looked the worse for the war, there were several distiguished officers of high rank among them, that that I saw were, General Pillow, Quitman, Cadwalder and last but not least Major General William Butler of Kentucky, the Democratic Candidate for Vice President.\" \"General Patterson and Shields also went through here but I did not see them... The Whigs and Democrats both have polls up. The Whig pole is 210 feet high... There was a discussion at the Whig Pole on Friday night between AJ Ogle and J.S. Dawson, the former the Whig Candidate for Congress and the latter the Democratic one for the same office.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We had a grand illumination of the town about a week ago in celebration of the surrender of the city of Vera Cruz. Capt. S.S. Austin has just [?] from Mexico, he went about 3 months ago by himslef but afterwards joined the 3rd artillery and served as 1st Lieutenant and the attack on Vera Cruz.\" \"He has a prospect of seeling out here too and if he does I think he will go to Missouri probably after that concern is closed in Baltimore. His business calls him to Missouri now for two or three weeks. Say nothing about this out of the family for he does not wish it mentioned to any person I know.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There is an old colonel by the name of Semaroski lecturing on Napoleon Bonaparte he served under Napoleon in the French war, 23 years. He has been in 202 batlles he has a very large scar from his mouth to his ear and a very large lump on his side where he was wounded with a cannoncall. He is also a minister of the Gospel a Lutheran by profession. He was born in Poland and educated in france and moved to Indiana after the French Revolution.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I was going to write to you last Sunday but as Gen. Taylor was expected to pass through here this week. I put it off in order to give you an account of his reception and description of his person. He arrived here yesterday evening at 7 precisely and remained overnight. A large concourse of citizens met him about a mile from town and escorted him to the Clinton House in a open carriage. He was welcomed to the town in a short speech by E. P. Oliphant, to which he replied in a speech of about three to five minutes... It seems that everybody had got it into their noggins that he was a large man, consequently they were disappointed to find him a small one.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"This is a day of sad gloom in our town. The Cholera in its most malignant form commenced its savages here yesterday. I think the first occurred about 8 AM and died about noon. Since that time 7 have died and there are others that are sick that may terminate fatally. It is so far confined to one street principally none having occurred but in the vicinity of that street. The gloom and alarm here you can hardly conceive, many have left town and many more I think will leave.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The woman arrested sometimes ago for killing the Watchman, has been tried and acquitted on the ground that she committed the murder in Self-Defense. Charles Austin, Marye's Brother, was to be tried for seduction and breach of promise of marriage but the case was compromised before it came into court by his Father paying the girl's father five hundred and fifty dollars. Another girl sued Skiles Austin for a case of the same nature. The male portion of the family have turned out badly.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I saw this morning an account of another battle fought between the Americans and the Mexicans which lasted sometime. During the action, lieut. Thomas Jordan and many other gallant officers were wounded. I reckon Mr. Jordan will be much grieved to hear that his son has happened to such a sad accident but it will be of some consoloation to him to think that it was done in defense of his country.\" \"Brid. Gen. Joshua Howe fo this place received orders from the president this morning to call together the militia of this country and march to the field of battle on the 22nd of June. I would like to know if there is any likelihood of many being taken away from Luray.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We were detained at Harpers Ferry nearly two days and saw a great many curiosities there, one of which was the U States armory, a great curiosity indeed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We have had a warm political contest here but all is lost. J.K. Polk will certainly be president of the US. I am disappointed beyond measure. I could not have believed he could have beaten our gallant old Harry, but it is all over, and we must make the best of it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am going to school at Madison College, do not let the word College deceive you any person would naturally suppose that it was a large flourishing institution but they would be wonderfully mistaken. For it is nothing compared with the Luray Academy when it was under the admirable superintendence of G.W. Grayson of Bandylegs as we used to call him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I wish he had been here last Sunday Morning to witness the departure of the Fayette County Volunteers for Mexico, it was an imposing sight.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I felt like jumping up and cracking my heels together when i heard that Colb of Georgie was elected speaker of the house and then the Chairmen of all the important committees in the senate are pro-slavery men. Such a Triumph of the south puts the abolitionist about here considerably down in the mouth. What do you think of the President's message, I think it small potatoes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There has been a good deal of excitement her since the election and it seems that the Whigs have beat the Democrats in this state and the Democrats had beat the Whigs in Ohio. Great efforts will be made by each party to carry this state in November for President.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I was a little surprised last Thursday morning when I got up to discover an attempt to breakin the store during the night. They bored holes with an auger through the door next to the street with the intention to get out the key, I suppose, but they did not succeed. They were scared off by the watchmen. If they had gotten in, i think they would have met with rather a warm reception. I did not hear them as I slept upstains, but if they had come up there, I had the thing that would have made them get out a little quicker than they got in.\" \"There seems to be a gang of villians about here for awhile. They have attempted to fire buildings and do other mischief. One rogue has been safely lodged in jail for breaking in a store in Parkersburg, Virginia and robbed it of $200.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The University of Virginia receives an annuity of $15,000 from the state and one of the conditions on which it receives it is that there shall be one student from every congressional district from the state educated free of charge for tuition and boarding. I could perhaps get in there from the Paige District, but it would make me feel a little too degraded to be educated at the expense of the state. Besides, the Virginia University is one of the best, if not the very best, college in the United States.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We stayed in Washington city until 5:00 Saturday evening. We went to the president's house, the public grounds, the Washington Monument, the Equestrian Statue of Jackson, the Capitol, the Patent Office. I enclose a five dollar note which I got from Mr. Grove. It turns out to be counterfeit.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The honorable James Buchanan passed through here last Monday and made a short speech to the students. I was very well pleased both with the speech and the man. Once does not see any of the outward peculiarities which are sometimes taken for characteristics of greatness, except indeed the deep cunning expressed by his eyes or the sharpness and prominence of the chin.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There was a murder committed but a short distance from there. The murder was a negro supposed to be a runaway and stabbed up a white man for trying to arrest him and made his escape.\" \"William says he has volunteer for Texas, tell him if he is very eager to her there an oppotunity not offers for staying frive years so if he wants to go bad he had better come on here immediately as there are now officers here from the army recruiting.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There was a great animal show here yesterday and wax works and four white negro boys their father and mother are said to be black and these naturally white, their noses are flat and their hair white and curly and have every resemblance of a negro except their eyes and feet. I saw a man after the show was over and said he pulled out a bunch of his hair to ascertain whether he had on a wig or not and found that he had not.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Booton from 1851 about escaped enslaved persons from Virginia and the battle that ensued over them being arrested and the free Black persons and abolitionists that got involved and were ready to fight for them, really fantastic: \"We had a great excitement here last Monday on account of the arrest of some runaway negroes from Virginia. There were warrants issued for the arrest of five fugitives. Two of them were taken at Robstown on the Loughegheny River, but the free blacks and abolitionists raised a mob, rescued the slaves and cut some of the officers. Two others were arrested in Brownsville and after creating a good deal of excitement were brought to Uniontown for trial. After they had been lodged in jail news came that there was a considerable body of armed negroes headed by one or two abolitionists coming from Brownsville to attempt a rescue. In hearing this the sheriff ordered out the military to maintain the laws. A part of the darkies reported to be coming, come in town one at a time. Finding the soldiers ready and anxious for a fight they left town without ceremony. Money was raised to indemnify the owners and the slaves set at liberty.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A great number of volunteer soldiers passed through here within the past week for Mexico. I also saw two Indians pass through yesterday on the stages going home from Washington City. They belong to the Caw tribes in a remote part of Missouri. They were bare headed and nothing to cover their body but a blanket thrown carelessly over their shoulders and a pair of shoes. it would be impossible for me to describe the beads and jewelry of various kinds about their persons. They could speak English Tolerably well.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"She seems to decline fast but she does not appear to suffer much severe paint often. Dr Henkel's medicine weakened her very fast while taking to Dr Kim came in to see her and advised her together with Dr Crane to discontinue the use of it\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"On Friday last Samuel S. Austin brother of Mary, was killed on the hill this side of Brownsville, by the bursting of a wall swivel, that is a Mexican gun made of brass and weighing between 100 and 125 pounds. A piece of it about 10 inches long and 1 inch thick struck him in the abdoment or rather his thigh and mashed the hip bone, throwing clear out a part of the joint nearly as large as the half of a hen's egg and tearing out his entrails. he had gone down the Ohio river to Wheeling to meet the volunteers from this county just returning from Mexico.\" \"The other accident resulted in the death of a little boy a few days previous to that. He was the son of Mr. Peter Kremer of this place and was hanging with his hands to the coupling pole of a wagon and the driver not knowing he was there stopped and commenced backing the wagon, when the little boy fell and the wheel passed right over his neck, breaking it and causing instant death.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I wasvery busy for a while after Mr. Fetzer left here for Wheeling. You said in your letter that Doctor Robertson has sold his farm to David Kibler for $900 and has moved to the West. I don't recollect any David Kibler unless he is the son of Philip Kibler.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have got about 5 or 6 hundred silk worms which keep me very busy of mornings and evenings feeding them and shifting them on fresh leaves. I feed them on the natural mulberry and James William on the Morus Multicaulis. My worms appear to grow faster than his.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I left your overshoes at the Post Office at New Market to be returned to you, I will send those Saddlesbags and Overcoat in Robert's Trunk.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNice handwritten invitation to John and Robert to attent a social party at the Washington House in Luray signed by all the managers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I saw your cousin, J.K. Booton last Tuesday, I believe he was in usual health. He is now captain of the company that your father had the command of before his decease.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I see by the newspapers that the Democrats have done the thing up brown at the election in the Old Dominion. As far as heard from they have already a majority of seven over what they had in the last legislature. How is it in Page, is Boswell or Keyser elected?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Since the treaty with Mexico has been concluded a great number of soldiers going home passed through this place. The most of them looked the worse for the war, there were several distinguished officers of high rank among them, that that I saw were, General Pillow, Quitman, Cadwalder and last but not least Major General William Butler of Kentucky, the Democratic Candidate for Vice President.\" \"General Patterson and Shields also went through here but I did not see them..The Whigs and Democrats both have polls up. The Whig pole is 210 feet high...There was a discussion at the Whig Pole on Friday night between AJ Ogle and J.S. Dawson, the former the Whig Candidate for Congress and the latter the Democratic one for the same office\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We had a grand illumination of the town about a week ago in celebration of the surrender of the city of Vera Cruz.Capt S.S. Austin has just ? From Mexico, he went about 3 months ago by himself but afterwards joined the 3rd artillery and served as 1st Lieutenant in the attack on Vera Cruz.\" \"He has a prospect of selling out here too and if he does I think he will go to Missouri probably after that concern is closed in Baltimore. His business calls him to Missouri now for two or three weeks.Say nothing about this out of the Family for he does not wish it mentioned to any person I know.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There is an old colonel by the name of Semaroski lecturing on Napoleon Bonaparte he served under Napoleon in the French war, 23 years. He has been in 202 battles he has a very large scar from his mouth to his ear and a very large lump on his side where he was wounded with a cannonball. He is also a minister of the Gospel a Lutheran by profession.He was born in Poland and educated in France and moved to Indiana after the French Revolution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I was going to write to you last Sunday but as Gen Taylor was expected to pass through here this week. I put it off in order to give you an account of his reception and description of his person.He arrived here yesterday evening at 7 precisely and remained over night. A large concourse of citizens met him about a mile from town and escorted him to the Clinton House in an open carriage. He was welcomed to the town in a short speech by E.P. Oliphant, to which he replied in a speech of about three to five minutes..It seems that everybody had got it into their noggins that he was a large man, consequently they were disappointed to find him a small one\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"This day is a day of sad gloom in our town. The Cholera in its most malignant form commenced its savages here yesterday. I think the first occured about 8 AM and died about noon. Since that time 7 have died and there are others that are sick that may terminate fatally. It is so far confined to one street principally non having occured but in the vicinity of that street. The gloom and alarm here you can hardly conceive, many have left town and many more I think will leave.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Did you see Belle Austin's Husband while you were in Uniontown? He is a whopper. Considerably over six feet. I saw a catalog of the Steubenville Seminary a few days ago which had the name of Margret Thompson from Luray, Virginia in it. Pray, who is she? Is she Dr. Thompson's daughter? The seminary is only a days ride from this place.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I hope Daniel Kibler's letter has not put Charlie in the notion of going to the West. I suppose from what he says that his father has taken up some government or vacant land, as it is called.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Niggers are very numerous here and very impudent. A few evenings since a big black fellow who thought himself as googd as anybody undertook to make some students here from Kentucky and some of the other slave states, get out of his road. They even convinced him he had waked up the wrong passengers. They gave the negro a little the soundest cudgeling he ever had. The whole body of the negroes become outraged at this and armed themselves with guns, pistols, bowie knives, axes, and clubs swearing vengeance on the white fellows that whipped their colored brother and if the rest of the students came to their assistance, prepared for a general batte. They did not proceed to violence but contented themselves by getting out warrants for the arrest of the students concerned in the affray. Some think the disturbance will not end here but that during the coming vacation while a good many of the students are at home the negroes will attempt to overpower those that remain here. All I can say is that if they do there will be blood spilled. The blacks are nearly all armed. To make the matter worse a good many of the inhabitants take side with the niggers. How I despise such people. I have hardly benevolence enough to wish them a happy hereafter. I have never had any difficulty with the blacks or their white allies and hope I shall not have.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We had a great excitement here last Monday on account of the arrest of some runaway negroes from Virginia. There were warrants issued for the arrest of five fugitives. Two of them were taken at Robstown on the Loughegheny River, but the free blacks and abolitionists raised a mob, rescued the slaves and cut some of the officers. Two others were arrested in Brownsville and after creating a good deal of excitement were brought to Uniontown for trial. After they had been lodged in jail news came that there was a considerable body of armed negroes headed by one or two abolitionists coming from Brownsville to attempt a rescue. In hearing this the sheriff orfered out the military to maintain the laws. A part of the darkies reported to be coming, come in town one at a time. Finding the soldiers ready and anxious for a fight they left town without ceremony. Money was raised to indemnify the owners and the slaves set at liberty.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Rob's little boy, Austin got kicked by a horse about ten days ago and had his collar bone broken. It still had to be fastened to its place but he does not complain of it hurting him and and is running about as if nothing unusual had happened to him. He is one of the boldest and most reckless boys I ever saw.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"She seems to decline fast but she does not appear to suffer much severe pain often. Dr Henkel's medicine weakened her very fast while taking to Dr Kim came in to see here and advised her together with Dr Crane to discontinue the use of it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"James W Modesitt Sheriff of Page County on the 6th day of July last and enclosed a copy of each together with a list of Free Negroes and transmitted them by mail to your office.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture Document, Will, Work calculations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"1824 Slave Document being an appraisal and dividing up of 21 Slaves, they are all named in the document.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Document from 1824 being a 3 page complaint about a slave that was hired for a year threatening to run away with her husband. Her husband actually comes and demands that he sell her back to the previous owner or she will runaway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA document from Charles Modesitt from Page County from 1857 that includes listing the number of Free Negroes in the town at 3 cents each, there were 48 at the time\u003c/p\u003e"]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8478_c12"}},{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9213_c06_c02","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Accounts","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_9213_c06_c02#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eReceipts and invoices to and from various individuals. Some names include: Mr. Beaver, John Berk, Mr. Pendleton, Thomas Pugh, Jack Steward, John F. 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Va.)--History","Franklin County (Va.)--History","Frederick County (Va.)--History","General stores--Virginia","Gloucester County (Va.)--History","Grain--Milling--Virginia","Greenbrier County (Va.)--History","Hanover County (Va.)--History","Hardy County (W.Va.)--History","Harrison County (W. Va.)--History","Henrico County (Va.)--History","Indians of North America--Virginia","James City County (Va.)--History","Jury Selection--Virginia","Justices of the peace--Virginia","King George County (Va.)--History","King William County (Va.)--History","King and Queen County (Va.)--History","Land grants--Virginia","Lawyers--Virginia--History","Legal documents","Loudoun County (Va.)--History","Marriage records","Monongalia County (W. Va.)--History--19th century","Morgan County (W.Va.)--History--19th century","Nansemond County (Va.)--History","Nicholas County (W.Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","Northampton County (Va.)--History","Northumberland County (Va.)--History","Ohio 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. 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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."],"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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Most of the correspondence is arranged chronologically and is a mix of the Jones, Curtis, Taliaferro, Page and related families. Most envelopes were missing which made it difficult to ascertain not only who received the letters, but who wrote them.","Further processing and completion of inventory done by Anne Johnson in 2011.","Mss. 39.1 J75  Warner T. Jones Papers\nMss. 65 Ar6 Armistead-Cocke Family Papers","Papers, 1826-1916, of the Jones family of \"Land's End,\" Gloucester County, Virginia, and related families of Curtis, Taliaferro, Page and Harrison. Includes correspondence, genealogical notes, obituaries, legal files, real estate material, notes concerning Land's End, Petsworth Parish (Gloucester County), Yorktown, and the homes of the Cringan family and the Mackenzie family, and Bible records of the Jones and Fauntleroy families.","The first two accessions, which compose the bulk of the material, are gifts of Mrs. Jackson  L. Fray, Jr.","Addition Mss. 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Howard and Mary T. Davies.","18 items including letters from Warner T. Jones, E.H. Dabney, Julia Meredith, Jos. Bryan, Susan E. Maury, St. G.T.C. Bryan and Preston Cocke.","35 items including letters fro M.G. Jones, M.G. Clarke, Leah T. Taliaferro and Mag. S. Smith.","26 items which include letters from M.G. Jones (Civil War comment), Sue Byrd, Mary C. Mason, Mary F. Jones and Fannie Curtis.","Genealogy correspondence, notes, printed material on the Blackburne, Booth, Curtis, Elizabeth (Queen), Fitzhugh, Jones, Langborn, Lawson, Payne, Pemberton, Throckmorton and Warner Families.","Handwritten story.","3 stories:  \"John Marshall\" (3 pages); \"Francesca, the Venetian Bride\" (4 pages); and \"The Love of Marie Rayneval\" (20 pages).","\"The Salon of Madame Necker\" the Standard Series:  Volume II, Parts III and IV, 1880, Volume III, Parts V and VI, 1881. Signed on covers \"Martha T. Jones, Land's End, Gloucester Co., Va.\"  Booklet, \"Easy Questions for a little child, etc.\" published by Gen. Prot. Episcopal Sunday School Union, New York, undated, 40 pages.","One page of births (1828-1868) and one page of deaths (1830-1939); obituaries of Miss Martha T. Jones (d. 1952 January 16) and Fanny Curtis Jones (d. 1954 October 28); 1 page of marriages, Curtis-Fauntleroy-Jones; and 1 memo from C. Nelson to Miss Jones.","Expansive notes on a possible biographical paper which includes thoughts on a variety of topics such as politics, religion, the South, Banks and much more.","1833 payment from Mann Page, 1846 invoice of C. C. Curtis, 1849 invoice from Beers and Poindexter, 1858 receipt for Robert Armistead, 1878 receipt for Marg. T. Jones for a Saratoga Trunk, 1878 letter to Bangy about items purchased, 1915 receipt of the Misses Jones with The Gloucester Pharmacy, 1927 bill from Dr. Windells for Martha T. Jones, 1940 bank receipt and Curtis receipt in regards to Thomas Fauntleroy's will (undated).","Accounts of estate and an account of a sale of estate items with buyers and items listed with their prices.","Bills, invoices and receipts for  items purchased by Richard P. Jones.  Businesses and others include Thomas B. Taliaferro (household items), Mitchell and Tyler of Richmond, Chris Heirsch, Potter and Middleton of Baltimore (furniture), G. Earnest \u0026 W. Cowles of Baltimore (China), Gwyn \u0026 Co. of Baltimore (cloth), Monroe Nicolson (cloth, household items), Heywood Smith (general store), J. T. Guy (house repair) and Sam M. Price \u0026 Co (sewing supplies).","1842 invoice from Augustine Owen, 1846 receipt from Diggs' Hotel, 1855 account with R. B. Taliaferro, 1860 account with Oscar Granz of Richmond, 1863 note saying A. Grady will deliver...twelve servants, 1861 invoice from John C. Shafer,","Letter to Armistead from Warner Lewis J[ones], 16 May 1768.  Possibly a copy of the letter.","1805 letter written from Lynchburg to Uncle, partial letter written from Upton in 1811 and an 1821 letter from A. Sheldon in Rubert to Jacob Sheldon in Williamsburg.","1834 letter from M. Southgate to Elizabeth Page, his sister, about the shock of his wife's death (Louisa) and 1838 letter from Uncle Richard Jones to Cadet Francis W. Page at West Point Military Academy.","Fragments of letter to Cadet Frank N. Page at West Point from Warner T. Jones, January 12, 1849.","1851 letter from Unknown in Newport, Rhode Island to Major about his visit to Capon Springs and his health problems. 1855 letter from Julia in Alexandria to Maria, 1858 letter to Mother from Daughter and an 1859 letter from D.B. Page of Carybrook to \"friend\" sending condolences about the death of her baby. Includes 1859 letter to Jones from St. G. Tucker in Ashland about Jones request for his copy of \"Journal and Documents,\" which Tucker explains is usually only borrowed by new members during the Journal Session. Tucker also explains his view on new bill about \"ordinary\" and \"Merchants License\" and how McCue of Augusta and Haywood of Marion \"concocted an amendment to each of them\"...\" to extend the promises of the bill to trading with free negroes as well as slaves.\"","Undated (circa 1861) letter from H. Baytop in Gloucester to Col. Jones, in which he states \"I have been offered the Captaincy of a uniform Rifle Company and I had rather accept of that than to be ... I am perfectly willing to serve under you but am not willing to be under any underling\"... \"let me know if I can get the situation of Paymaster...\" January 1861 letter to \"Aunt\" from Fannie Harrison at Carter Hall about family and friends with a few references to the war. January 1861 letter to \"Brother\" from sibling in Richmond about the weather preventing the nominations of representatives to the Convention and resulting in too many candidates ...\"to the cause of immediate state secession,\" he is convinced \"is the path of safety and of honor\" and \"immediate secession is gaining ground rapidly.\" He also mentions different areas of the state and their feelings about secession and how some of them lean towards the Union and others choosing Whigs as their representatives. Letter is unfinished. January 1861 letter to Warner from P. R. Page at the Ship Yard giving details of the election process in selecting a representative to the Convention, with Seawell getting 132 votes and William Taliaferro getting 38. February 1861 letter from J.C. Sheldon at Wilson's Creek to Cal about the property and Mr. Langborn's will. August 1862 letter to Maria from a friend in Richmond about family news. July 1862 letter from D. M. Taliaferro in Gloucester to Warner T. Jones in Richmond about the circumstances of John Richard White leaving Richmond because of sick relatives. Series of letters to Cousin Maria from Mary L. Browning of Greenfield about family affairs. Letters are undated, but probably written in the 1860s. 1864 letter to Maria Jones from Cousin Mary Harrison about the death of Mary's Aunt and family news. July 1864 letter to Martha from Mary L. Browning mostly about the War: who died, who is on disability and where friends are or have been during the war. July 4, 1864 letter from sister MBC (Mary Booth Curtis) in Richmond, Virginia to her sister, Mrs. R. P. Jones (Marie Curtis Jones) about the war with comments such as \"I think today may be the most important of the war as it is supposed Grant will try and do something...,\" \" I have no doubt of the issue but the loss of life sickens me.\" She also mentions prices of food in Richmond and the whereabouts of family and friends. Two August 1864 letters from Fannie in Nelson's Creek to Emily Kemp about visiting, illness of Martha and family news. February 4, 1865 letter from D.B. Page in Carybrook as part of the military to \"friend,\" mostly about friends, family and missing Gloucester. Letter is torn, stained and fragile. March 12, 1865 letter from Joel Thomas to wife, Indiana E. Thomas, with location \"In the Trenches.\" He explains the cost system of sending packages and people stealing from personal shipments. On the second page of the letter he says that his regiment is out of the trenches and living in cabins near Dinwiddie Court House, 10 miles from Petersburg. He writes of movement of troops, news of his and her brothers and his good wishes to his and her family. January 15, 1866 letter written from Greenfield to cousin about death of Aunt Judy in Montgomery, hard times after the war such that \"the gentlemen look worse than they did during the war\" and \"my faithful Hillary and Hannah went off, could not induce them to stay and all through the war, Hillary was as faithful and good as possible...\" January 15, 1866 letter from Aunt MBC (Martha Booth Curtis) to Bangy (Mary) asking her to visit and \"got a letter from Mrs. Coleman...in which she said she would open her school in Wmsburg the 15th of March\" and encourages Bangy to go. 1866 letter from Cousin Louis West in Pensacola, Florida to Cousin Mary about the death of Mrs. Caldwell. July 1866 letter from Maria at Hunting Quarter to Cousin about \"Papa going to Clarke to live\" with Henry Harrison and they will follow, plus other family news. September 1966 letter from Richmond to \"Mother\" about where she is living. March 1867 letter from Burwell to cousin about paying her to care for his Aunt. August 30, 1867 letter from Cynthia B. T. Coleman in Aldie, Loudoun County to Maria about teaching her daughter English and Music for free, but can't afford to give free board plus news of her visits to friends. 1869 letter to B about family and being homesick. 1869 letter from Martha Throgmorton to her sister, with postscript by her Mother about family news. 1869 letter from E. Browning to Charlie about a fire in their house that killed their granddaughter, Anna. 1869 letter from Rebecca Tabb to Charlie about the coat he gave LLoyd.","Many letters to and from Curtis and Jones family members. Writers include Mary Booth Curtis, C. C. Curtis, Susan, George O. Nicholson, Allie, sister, Maggie Locke, Martha T. Jones, Huntingdon, Bassett French, David N. Baldwin, M. Curtis, Aunt Lea Page, Barney, Maria Cocke, Preston Cocke, Emily and other indecipherable names. Recipients include Sister, Brother, Cousin, Julia and M. Thompson, Martha (sister), Mary, Emily, Mrs. Semple, Cousin Martha, Matty, Bangy (Mary), Richard Jones, B, Mary Jones, Charlie, Fanny, C.C. Curtis and others. Content is mostly news of family and friends.","Letters are between members of the Jones and Curtis families. Writers include John R. Page, S.S. Page, Annie (Blaxton), W. T. Williams (to Bangie about her Mother's death) and Philip A. Taliaferro. Recipients include Maria, Martha, Fannie, Bangie, Sister and Cousin Martha. Mostly concerns family news.","Letters between Jones and Curtis family members. Writers and recipients include Thomas Nelson Page to Cousin Mrs. M. T. P. Vandergrift (about a story she wrote), P. M. Thompson in Williamsburg to Mary about the death of her Uncle, H. B. Kendig (sending checks to Miss Jones) and Sally Nelson Robins (of the Virginia Historical Society) to Mary about some documents.","1932 letter to Martha and Fanny from Cousin M. J. Vandegrift about family news, and a 1948 letter to Martha from Mrs. H. O. Sanders of Gloucester, saying she found some of \"Mama's diaries and was having them typed.\"","Writers include E. Browning, Elizabeth Byrd Nichols, F.L. B. Cocke, Mother, MBG, unknown Taliaferro, Sister, friend, M.F. Jones, Fanny, Lilly Page, Lizzie Archer, Martha, Mr. Cocke, Aunt Booth, Child and Marion. Recipients include Friend , Bangy (Mary), Miss Jones, Bangy, B. and Sister M, Mother, Sister, Friend, MBC, B, Martha, Mary, Mrs. R.P. Jones, Maria Jones, Children, Niece, Fanny and Miss Jones. Includes a copy of a letter of George Herberts to \"Dear Sick Sister,\" a letter fragment about Florida and assuming government funding to remove native population, letter to Maria from Mr. Cocke where he sends her a four leaf clover (no longer with letter) and a wedding invitation. Topics include all areas of family life and news of friends, family and neighbors.","Undated correspondence to a son or daughter, written either from Richmond, Virginia or Lands End in Gloucester, Virginia. Writer is probably Harriet Throckmorton Curtis and/or Martha T. Jones. Topic is mostly news of family, friends and neighbors.","1840s letters from his sister, Harriet Throckmorton Jones, of Lowlands Cottage, to Richard Jones in Baltimore, telling of local and family news; 1849 letter about finances from Thomas W. Fauntleroy; 1851 letter from C. Lebaron about an account with L. Fauntleroy; 1853 letter from cousin A. Dabney in Raymond, Mississippi; 1853 and 1860 letters from Robert B. Armistead of Alabama about the estate of George Fauntleroy; 1869 letter from Henry Harrison of Millwood about a bond; 1874 letter from M. B. C. about death and God; 1882 note to Mrs. Richard Jones from Cynthia B. T. Coleman mentioning a 50th anniversary; and an undated invitation from Dr. and Mrs. Tabb.","Includes an 1860 letter from P. R. Page in Gloucester about not getting paid as an officer in the Army, giving examples and ranting about the unfairness of the system; 1860 letter from a ? W. Power in Yorktown about Jones' solicitation on behalf of the Volunteer Companies of Gloucester to erect a permanent memorial at Yorktown; 1861 letter from John W. C. Catlett, asking Jones to pick up an earring he left at a shop in Richmond; 1864 letter from C. C. Curtis about the will of Cora Harriet Shelden; 1867 letter from John R. Page about applying before the Members of the Board; 1871 letter from Henry Harrison recommending John R. Page as County Judge; 1873 letter from John R. Page, professor of Natural History at The University of Virginia, about the resolution to fund the University; 1884 letter to Judge W. Crump about a meeting to discuss the finances of William and Mary; 1886 letters about a deed of trust; 1890 letter from Joseph Bryan and an 1890 letter from W. C. Throckmorton of Danville, Virginia about Throckmorton genealogy.","1884 letter to Miss M. F. Jones from S. G. Fauntleroy about coat of arms and other family information; 1894 letters from S. Bassett French to Richard Jones about genealogy; and a 1901 letter to Miss Jones from Edwin Hawley, about the Throckmorton Family. Notes and charts about families; obituaries of Burgh Taliaferro, Rev. Charles Mann, Virginia Throckmorton and Fielding L. Taylor; a correction of the genealogy done by Miss Hary Fauntleroy by unknown person; notes on descendants of Mary Warner; notes on Read and Warner families; genealogy article about connection between the Queen, Washington and Lee, gravestone inscriptions of William Langhorne of King William County and Sarah Ann Weatherby Smith.","1835 note for purchases at estate sale by Warner T. Taliaferro; 1849 note to the Commissioner of Revenue of Gloucester County, transferring 802 acres from C.S. Jones to Richard P. Jones; 1844 indenture between the company of Curtis Jones and Robert C. Curtis; 1845-6 bonds; 1851 final payment for the purchase of Lands End; 1863 list of \"negroes and their ages\"; 1875 appraisal by Richard P. Jones and R. M. Page for personal estate of Sam Bolling; and a 1877 payment by Richard W. Jones to James D. Pointer for Richard P. Jones' coffin. Also includes an 1890 letter to Mary from George B. Harrison, about English property of Coryndon Carpenter, which by his 1776 will \"devised two small farms in Cornwall to his brother Nathaniel Carpenter...of King and Queen County...after his death to be sold and the proceeds to be divided between the four sons of Dr. Carpenter: Coryndon, William Fauntleroy, Bushrod and Nathaniel; and 1830-1852 guardian account records for Maria G. Curtis and R. P. Jones with C. C. Curtis the guardian of Maria.","Includes receipts from purchases, notes and real estate; an accounting of an estate for Miss Maria G. Curtis and R. P. Jones (1830-1852); indenture between Robert C. Curtis and Charles C. Curtis, Richard P. Jones and Philip E. Tabb (business) for $744.72 (1844); \"List of Richd P. Jones' negroes and their ages in 1863; indenture inventory of the estate of Sam Bolling (1875); and receipt for coffin of W. T. Jones from Richard W. Jones (1877).","1859 letter by Jno A. B. Thornton certifying that Warner T. Jones was elected to represent Gloucester in the House of Delegates; 1859 form letter to the Alumni of William and Mary Collection, asking for donations; 1880 letter from George B. Harrison asking for help in an English deposition; 1882 Power of Attorney given to Warner Jones for Martha T. Vandergrift; and an 1891 resolution from the Faculty of the College of William and Mary on their appreciation of the character of the late Judge Warner T. Jones.","\"A Review of the Circular Letter of the Attorney General...to the Marshals...in Relation to Elections,\" possibly 1863. June 30, 1929 Richmond Times-Dispatch about the Wells Cathedral in England; February 11, 1912 Times-Dispatch \"Our Confederate Column\"; and clippings on religion and wedding announcements.","Four handwritten business cards for C. C. Curtis (one with a note); weekly reports from \"Lane and Meade's School\"in Richmond, Virginia for C.C. Curtis (1868); and newspaper article about Court of Appeals session where John Poindexter's conviction of killing C. C. Curtis on March 3, 1879 was affirmed.","1873 certificate for Miss Mary T. Jones who is \"authorized to teach in the Public Free Schools of Gloucester County...1874\" and list of \"Mary's pallbearers.\"","1863 Confederate Bonds for Five Hundred Dollars belonging to L. A. and R. M. Page.","Business Card for \"The Davis Carriage Company\" with \"lines...found on the walls of Old Blandford Church...,\" small Christmas card, printed funeral service for Catherine Elizabeth Murray (1940), 1932 News Leader \"In By-gone Days\" about \"William and Mary College...to be revived and continue as a State Normal School...General William B. Taliaferro and Judge Warner T. Jones have been indefatigable in the cause\"; and a calling card for Misses Jones.","William Langhorn's 1823 will in King William County, leaving property in England, \"Fox Court,\" to his Throckmorton cousins. The will was not recognized by English Law and his property was considered intestate. Mostly correspondence about determining the legality of the heirs and the division of the estate, but also includes rental receipts, deeds, agreements and accounts. One document, \"Case,\" says that the English property was willed to William Langborn by Mary Langborn in 1783 and his heirs were the children of his sister, a Throckmorton. Family members involved in the settlement are: Warner T. Taliaferro, Alexander G. Taliaferro, William Taliaferro, Richard P. Jones, Nancy T. Jones, Lucy Anne and Mann Page, Anne Jones, Harriet T. Curtis, John and Lucy M. Page and Henry and Fanny T. Harrison. Other names include Mrs. Sheldon, John and Sally Throckmorton Dixon.","Typescript of \"Record of Major William Langborn's Revolutionary War Service\"; 1838 Revolutionary War Claim by heirs of William Langborn; 1840 survey of Ohio land granted William Lanborn on reverse of a letter to Charles C. Curtis; and an April 7, 1840 indenture between Charles C. and Harret T. Jones Curtis and Warmer T. Jones giving Warner T. Jones all interest in the King William County land once owned by William Langborn.","Poems and stories written by various members of all the families, though the writer is usually not identified. Includes \"Mr. Adam Foster's Letters describing 'old times in Gloucester Co., Va'\" in 1848, sent to Mary and belonging to M. L. Tabb of St. Catherine's School; poem written for Maria Greenhow of Williamsburg by Leander, fragment of text,\" copied by F. B. Macaulay in 1854; Romeo and Juliet (revised and improved), a story about a cat named Dolly by F. C. J.; \"Female Character\" by Mary F. Jones; handwritten obituary for a pet bird (1874); \"popular sayings from Pope\"; fragment of notes, poem on the death of \"Little Lizzie\"; calculation of crop rotation and profits using \"The Henley Four Field System\"; prose story about Lands End; note that describes \"...romantic delusion that the south was inhabited exclusively by aristocrats and picturesque negroes...\"; fragment of a story about a young girl at a ball; notes on Spanish and European religious and political history; page from a book with a poem entitled \"Stillness,\" which is addressed to Bangy; recipe for \"Tomatoe Catsup,\" and a typescript manuscript of \"Cousin Martha's recollections\" of Eagle Point, Lands End and other areas of Gloucester.","Papers of the Jones Family and collateral families, the Fauntleroy Family, the Taliaferro Family, the Sheldon Family, and others. Includes printed material, obituaries and writings. This accession was a gift of Maria Talcott. Mss. Acc. 1955.001 Addition.","October 28, 1825 letter from Mary L. Fauntleroy in Oakley to Miss Apphia B. Fauntleroy in Richmond, Virginia about her sadness because of the death of their sister and brother. Undated letter to Mother from Maria Greenhow (tear) about her activities in Richmond. August 11, 1873 letter to Mary from Janet, telling about attending the Virginia Council in Winchester, Virginia with her father. Undated letter to Mrs. Mary Lewis Browning from Sally Taliaferro about news of weddings and friends. Partial Last Will and Testament of Thomas Fauntleroy, dated February 1820.","Letters and documents spanning from 1859 to 1916. Documents concerning Warner T. Jones include an 1859 invoice from E.B. Spence; 1861 invitation to a Ball at Rosewell by the Gentlemen of Gloucester; 1861 bill for room and other items at the Spotswood Hotel in Richmond; 1862 receipt for the American Hotel in Richmond; 1865 check from Pugh; 1866 letter from unknown at Millhouse to Warner about property (Sheldon?) and news of friends; undated (after 1887) opinion from T.G. Jones to Hon. W.T. Jones about the \"matter of the old dragon Bridge and causeway now pending in Gloucester County Court\" in Middlesex and Gloucester Counties; May 12th, 186? letter from Capt. Chs. Garnett to Col. Jones about \"Scouts from Gwynn's Island report persons landing \u0026 marching towards ...women \u0026 children leaving for mainland in night...\"; a 1873 card for free travel on the Atlantic Mississippi and Ohio Railroad; and a partial undated letter from W. T. Jones while at William and Mary; August 1863 letter to \"My Very Dear Sister\" from her sister in Chatham telling of news of friends, deaths in the war, Mr. Gringam's whereabouts, the hot summer, her garden in Richmond and the Yankees stopping the mail; 1884 letter from son P. E. Jones to his Mother, Maria Jones, about family news; a 1916 envelope addressed to Richard Jones, and a 1922 paper on the Throckmorton family by William Carter Stubbs. Undated material includes a genealogical note about the Warner and Smith families; a report on the Throckmorton family; undated letter between two Jones sisters; small poetry notebook; and a handwritten copy of a letter written by Emanuel Jones, Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County with a \"list of questions sent out by the Bishop of London in 1724,\" with answers.","April 13, 1864 Confederate Bond for J. C. Sheldon; typed \"Story of Land's End\" about Captain John Sinclair; 1869 and 1871 court judgments in the cases of Spencer Forrest vs. William T. Hicks, William Lane vs. William T. Hicks and others against William T. Hicks.","Undated wedding invitation between Olivia Clarke Bridges and Robert Colgate Selden; 1899 Circuit Court judgment in Gloucester, Virginia in Smith vs. Taliaferro; a 1901 booklet about Philip Alexander Taliaferro; undated document about the division of the estate of William Langborn and his heirs, the Taliaferro and Jones families, with a \"Memoranda relative to Capt. Philip Taliaferro and Major Wm Langbourne\" about Langborn not receiving pay during his military service.","Obituaries for Dr. E. C. S. Taliaferro and Mary Fauntleroy Jones.","1864 pamphlet, signed by M. B. Custis, entitled \"Our Father's Care. a Ballad. by Mrs. Sewell,\" printed by the Presbyterian Committee of Publication in Richmond, Virginia. Religious pamphlet entitled, \"Morning Watches.\" \"Vital Facts about Jamestown, Yorktown, Williamsburg, College of William and Mary,\" revised 1932.","Notes and draft entitled \"A History of Petsworth Parish.\" Petsworth Parish is in Gloucester County, Virginia. Possibly written by Mary Fauntleroy Jones.","Handwritten partial stories and a poem, \"The Little Flower Maiden.\"  Pages of the stories are numbered, but many seem to be missing.  These stories were possibly written by Mary F. Jones since they arrived in an envelope addressed to Miss Mary F. 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Fray, Jr.","Addition Mss. Acc. 1955.001 was given by Maria Talcott, but the material deals with the same family, so it has been included with the Fray gift accessions.  She was a first cousin of Mary Fauntleroy Cocke Fray and granddaughter of Harriet Jones and Charles Curtis.","Mary Fauntleroy Cocke Fray was the daughter of William Fauntleroy Cocke and great granddaughter of Harriet Jones and Charles Curtis.  The 1969 accessions are family papers and documents from both the Jones and Curtis families with some material relating to the Cocke family.","Harriet's parents were Richard and Martha Washington Throckmorton Jones and her siblings were William Langborne, Mary Lanborne, Lucy Ann (married Mann Page), John James Emanuel, Richard P. (married Maria Greenhow Curtis) and Warner Throckmorton Jones (never married and lived with both his Curtis relations through the years).  Harriet Jones Curtis's children were Martha, Harriet, Lucy, Mary, Fanny and Charles Curtis.","Papers, 1826-1916, of the Jones family of \"Land's End,\" Gloucester County, Virginia, and related families of Curtis, Taliaferro, Page and Harrison. Includes correspondence, genealogical notes, obituaries, legal files, real estate material, notes concerning Land's End, Petsworth Parish (Gloucester County), Yorktown, and the homes of the Cringan family and the Mackenzie family, and Bible records of the Jones and Fauntleroy families.","The first two accessions, which compose the bulk of the material, are gifts of Mrs. Jackson  L. Fray, Jr.","13 items which include correspondence from F. Du-Veil, Warner T. Jones, Mary B. Curtis.","12 items which include letters from Charles M. Jones, M.G. Jones, Emma G. De Sausseur, L.A. Page, E.M. Wellford, Ella B. Howard and Mary T. Davies.","18 items including letters from Warner T. Jones, E.H. Dabney, Julia Meredith, Jos. Bryan, Susan E. Maury, St. G.T.C. Bryan and Preston Cocke.","35 items including letters fro M.G. Jones, M.G. Clarke, Leah T. Taliaferro and Mag. S. Smith.","26 items which include letters from M.G. Jones (Civil War comment), Sue Byrd, Mary C. Mason, Mary F. Jones and Fannie Curtis.","Genealogy correspondence, notes, printed material on the Blackburne, Booth, Curtis, Elizabeth (Queen), Fitzhugh, Jones, Langborn, Lawson, Payne, Pemberton, Throckmorton and Warner Families.","Handwritten story.","3 stories:  \"John Marshall\" (3 pages); \"Francesca, the Venetian Bride\" (4 pages); and \"The Love of Marie Rayneval\" (20 pages).","\"The Salon of Madame Necker\" the Standard Series:  Volume II, Parts III and IV, 1880, Volume III, Parts V and VI, 1881. Signed on covers \"Martha T. Jones, Land's End, Gloucester Co., Va.\"  Booklet, \"Easy Questions for a little child, etc.\" published by Gen. Prot. Episcopal Sunday School Union, New York, undated, 40 pages.","One page of births (1828-1868) and one page of deaths (1830-1939); obituaries of Miss Martha T. Jones (d. 1952 January 16) and Fanny Curtis Jones (d. 1954 October 28); 1 page of marriages, Curtis-Fauntleroy-Jones; and 1 memo from C. Nelson to Miss Jones.","Expansive notes on a possible biographical paper which includes thoughts on a variety of topics such as politics, religion, the South, Banks and much more.","1833 payment from Mann Page, 1846 invoice of C. C. Curtis, 1849 invoice from Beers and Poindexter, 1858 receipt for Robert Armistead, 1878 receipt for Marg. T. Jones for a Saratoga Trunk, 1878 letter to Bangy about items purchased, 1915 receipt of the Misses Jones with The Gloucester Pharmacy, 1927 bill from Dr. Windells for Martha T. Jones, 1940 bank receipt and Curtis receipt in regards to Thomas Fauntleroy's will (undated).","Accounts of estate and an account of a sale of estate items with buyers and items listed with their prices.","Bills, invoices and receipts for  items purchased by Richard P. Jones.  Businesses and others include Thomas B. Taliaferro (household items), Mitchell and Tyler of Richmond, Chris Heirsch, Potter and Middleton of Baltimore (furniture), G. Earnest \u0026 W. Cowles of Baltimore (China), Gwyn \u0026 Co. of Baltimore (cloth), Monroe Nicolson (cloth, household items), Heywood Smith (general store), J. T. Guy (house repair) and Sam M. Price \u0026 Co (sewing supplies).","1842 invoice from Augustine Owen, 1846 receipt from Diggs' Hotel, 1855 account with R. B. Taliaferro, 1860 account with Oscar Granz of Richmond, 1863 note saying A. Grady will deliver...twelve servants, 1861 invoice from John C. Shafer,","Letter to Armistead from Warner Lewis J[ones], 16 May 1768.  Possibly a copy of the letter.","1805 letter written from Lynchburg to Uncle, partial letter written from Upton in 1811 and an 1821 letter from A. Sheldon in Rubert to Jacob Sheldon in Williamsburg.","1834 letter from M. Southgate to Elizabeth Page, his sister, about the shock of his wife's death (Louisa) and 1838 letter from Uncle Richard Jones to Cadet Francis W. Page at West Point Military Academy.","Fragments of letter to Cadet Frank N. Page at West Point from Warner T. Jones, January 12, 1849.","1851 letter from Unknown in Newport, Rhode Island to Major about his visit to Capon Springs and his health problems. 1855 letter from Julia in Alexandria to Maria, 1858 letter to Mother from Daughter and an 1859 letter from D.B. Page of Carybrook to \"friend\" sending condolences about the death of her baby. Includes 1859 letter to Jones from St. G. Tucker in Ashland about Jones request for his copy of \"Journal and Documents,\" which Tucker explains is usually only borrowed by new members during the Journal Session. Tucker also explains his view on new bill about \"ordinary\" and \"Merchants License\" and how McCue of Augusta and Haywood of Marion \"concocted an amendment to each of them\"...\" to extend the promises of the bill to trading with free negroes as well as slaves.\"","Undated (circa 1861) letter from H. Baytop in Gloucester to Col. Jones, in which he states \"I have been offered the Captaincy of a uniform Rifle Company and I had rather accept of that than to be ... I am perfectly willing to serve under you but am not willing to be under any underling\"... \"let me know if I can get the situation of Paymaster...\" January 1861 letter to \"Aunt\" from Fannie Harrison at Carter Hall about family and friends with a few references to the war. January 1861 letter to \"Brother\" from sibling in Richmond about the weather preventing the nominations of representatives to the Convention and resulting in too many candidates ...\"to the cause of immediate state secession,\" he is convinced \"is the path of safety and of honor\" and \"immediate secession is gaining ground rapidly.\" He also mentions different areas of the state and their feelings about secession and how some of them lean towards the Union and others choosing Whigs as their representatives. Letter is unfinished. January 1861 letter to Warner from P. R. Page at the Ship Yard giving details of the election process in selecting a representative to the Convention, with Seawell getting 132 votes and William Taliaferro getting 38. February 1861 letter from J.C. Sheldon at Wilson's Creek to Cal about the property and Mr. Langborn's will. August 1862 letter to Maria from a friend in Richmond about family news. July 1862 letter from D. M. Taliaferro in Gloucester to Warner T. Jones in Richmond about the circumstances of John Richard White leaving Richmond because of sick relatives. Series of letters to Cousin Maria from Mary L. Browning of Greenfield about family affairs. Letters are undated, but probably written in the 1860s. 1864 letter to Maria Jones from Cousin Mary Harrison about the death of Mary's Aunt and family news. July 1864 letter to Martha from Mary L. Browning mostly about the War: who died, who is on disability and where friends are or have been during the war. July 4, 1864 letter from sister MBC (Mary Booth Curtis) in Richmond, Virginia to her sister, Mrs. R. P. Jones (Marie Curtis Jones) about the war with comments such as \"I think today may be the most important of the war as it is supposed Grant will try and do something...,\" \" I have no doubt of the issue but the loss of life sickens me.\" She also mentions prices of food in Richmond and the whereabouts of family and friends. Two August 1864 letters from Fannie in Nelson's Creek to Emily Kemp about visiting, illness of Martha and family news. February 4, 1865 letter from D.B. Page in Carybrook as part of the military to \"friend,\" mostly about friends, family and missing Gloucester. Letter is torn, stained and fragile. March 12, 1865 letter from Joel Thomas to wife, Indiana E. Thomas, with location \"In the Trenches.\" He explains the cost system of sending packages and people stealing from personal shipments. On the second page of the letter he says that his regiment is out of the trenches and living in cabins near Dinwiddie Court House, 10 miles from Petersburg. He writes of movement of troops, news of his and her brothers and his good wishes to his and her family. January 15, 1866 letter written from Greenfield to cousin about death of Aunt Judy in Montgomery, hard times after the war such that \"the gentlemen look worse than they did during the war\" and \"my faithful Hillary and Hannah went off, could not induce them to stay and all through the war, Hillary was as faithful and good as possible...\" January 15, 1866 letter from Aunt MBC (Martha Booth Curtis) to Bangy (Mary) asking her to visit and \"got a letter from Mrs. Coleman...in which she said she would open her school in Wmsburg the 15th of March\" and encourages Bangy to go. 1866 letter from Cousin Louis West in Pensacola, Florida to Cousin Mary about the death of Mrs. Caldwell. July 1866 letter from Maria at Hunting Quarter to Cousin about \"Papa going to Clarke to live\" with Henry Harrison and they will follow, plus other family news. September 1966 letter from Richmond to \"Mother\" about where she is living. March 1867 letter from Burwell to cousin about paying her to care for his Aunt. August 30, 1867 letter from Cynthia B. T. Coleman in Aldie, Loudoun County to Maria about teaching her daughter English and Music for free, but can't afford to give free board plus news of her visits to friends. 1869 letter to B about family and being homesick. 1869 letter from Martha Throgmorton to her sister, with postscript by her Mother about family news. 1869 letter from E. Browning to Charlie about a fire in their house that killed their granddaughter, Anna. 1869 letter from Rebecca Tabb to Charlie about the coat he gave LLoyd.","Many letters to and from Curtis and Jones family members. Writers include Mary Booth Curtis, C. C. Curtis, Susan, George O. Nicholson, Allie, sister, Maggie Locke, Martha T. Jones, Huntingdon, Bassett French, David N. Baldwin, M. Curtis, Aunt Lea Page, Barney, Maria Cocke, Preston Cocke, Emily and other indecipherable names. Recipients include Sister, Brother, Cousin, Julia and M. Thompson, Martha (sister), Mary, Emily, Mrs. Semple, Cousin Martha, Matty, Bangy (Mary), Richard Jones, B, Mary Jones, Charlie, Fanny, C.C. Curtis and others. Content is mostly news of family and friends.","Letters are between members of the Jones and Curtis families. Writers include John R. Page, S.S. Page, Annie (Blaxton), W. T. Williams (to Bangie about her Mother's death) and Philip A. Taliaferro. Recipients include Maria, Martha, Fannie, Bangie, Sister and Cousin Martha. Mostly concerns family news.","Letters between Jones and Curtis family members. Writers and recipients include Thomas Nelson Page to Cousin Mrs. M. T. P. Vandergrift (about a story she wrote), P. M. Thompson in Williamsburg to Mary about the death of her Uncle, H. B. Kendig (sending checks to Miss Jones) and Sally Nelson Robins (of the Virginia Historical Society) to Mary about some documents.","1932 letter to Martha and Fanny from Cousin M. J. Vandegrift about family news, and a 1948 letter to Martha from Mrs. H. O. Sanders of Gloucester, saying she found some of \"Mama's diaries and was having them typed.\"","Writers include E. Browning, Elizabeth Byrd Nichols, F.L. B. Cocke, Mother, MBG, unknown Taliaferro, Sister, friend, M.F. Jones, Fanny, Lilly Page, Lizzie Archer, Martha, Mr. Cocke, Aunt Booth, Child and Marion. Recipients include Friend , Bangy (Mary), Miss Jones, Bangy, B. and Sister M, Mother, Sister, Friend, MBC, B, Martha, Mary, Mrs. R.P. Jones, Maria Jones, Children, Niece, Fanny and Miss Jones. Includes a copy of a letter of George Herberts to \"Dear Sick Sister,\" a letter fragment about Florida and assuming government funding to remove native population, letter to Maria from Mr. Cocke where he sends her a four leaf clover (no longer with letter) and a wedding invitation. Topics include all areas of family life and news of friends, family and neighbors.","Undated correspondence to a son or daughter, written either from Richmond, Virginia or Lands End in Gloucester, Virginia. Writer is probably Harriet Throckmorton Curtis and/or Martha T. Jones. Topic is mostly news of family, friends and neighbors.","1840s letters from his sister, Harriet Throckmorton Jones, of Lowlands Cottage, to Richard Jones in Baltimore, telling of local and family news; 1849 letter about finances from Thomas W. Fauntleroy; 1851 letter from C. Lebaron about an account with L. Fauntleroy; 1853 letter from cousin A. Dabney in Raymond, Mississippi; 1853 and 1860 letters from Robert B. Armistead of Alabama about the estate of George Fauntleroy; 1869 letter from Henry Harrison of Millwood about a bond; 1874 letter from M. B. C. about death and God; 1882 note to Mrs. Richard Jones from Cynthia B. T. Coleman mentioning a 50th anniversary; and an undated invitation from Dr. and Mrs. Tabb.","Includes an 1860 letter from P. R. Page in Gloucester about not getting paid as an officer in the Army, giving examples and ranting about the unfairness of the system; 1860 letter from a ? W. Power in Yorktown about Jones' solicitation on behalf of the Volunteer Companies of Gloucester to erect a permanent memorial at Yorktown; 1861 letter from John W. C. Catlett, asking Jones to pick up an earring he left at a shop in Richmond; 1864 letter from C. C. Curtis about the will of Cora Harriet Shelden; 1867 letter from John R. Page about applying before the Members of the Board; 1871 letter from Henry Harrison recommending John R. Page as County Judge; 1873 letter from John R. Page, professor of Natural History at The University of Virginia, about the resolution to fund the University; 1884 letter to Judge W. Crump about a meeting to discuss the finances of William and Mary; 1886 letters about a deed of trust; 1890 letter from Joseph Bryan and an 1890 letter from W. C. Throckmorton of Danville, Virginia about Throckmorton genealogy.","1884 letter to Miss M. F. Jones from S. G. Fauntleroy about coat of arms and other family information; 1894 letters from S. Bassett French to Richard Jones about genealogy; and a 1901 letter to Miss Jones from Edwin Hawley, about the Throckmorton Family. Notes and charts about families; obituaries of Burgh Taliaferro, Rev. Charles Mann, Virginia Throckmorton and Fielding L. Taylor; a correction of the genealogy done by Miss Hary Fauntleroy by unknown person; notes on descendants of Mary Warner; notes on Read and Warner families; genealogy article about connection between the Queen, Washington and Lee, gravestone inscriptions of William Langhorne of King William County and Sarah Ann Weatherby Smith.","1835 note for purchases at estate sale by Warner T. Taliaferro; 1849 note to the Commissioner of Revenue of Gloucester County, transferring 802 acres from C.S. Jones to Richard P. Jones; 1844 indenture between the company of Curtis Jones and Robert C. Curtis; 1845-6 bonds; 1851 final payment for the purchase of Lands End; 1863 list of \"negroes and their ages\"; 1875 appraisal by Richard P. Jones and R. M. Page for personal estate of Sam Bolling; and a 1877 payment by Richard W. Jones to James D. Pointer for Richard P. Jones' coffin. Also includes an 1890 letter to Mary from George B. Harrison, about English property of Coryndon Carpenter, which by his 1776 will \"devised two small farms in Cornwall to his brother Nathaniel Carpenter...of King and Queen County...after his death to be sold and the proceeds to be divided between the four sons of Dr. Carpenter: Coryndon, William Fauntleroy, Bushrod and Nathaniel; and 1830-1852 guardian account records for Maria G. Curtis and R. P. Jones with C. C. Curtis the guardian of Maria.","Includes receipts from purchases, notes and real estate; an accounting of an estate for Miss Maria G. Curtis and R. P. Jones (1830-1852); indenture between Robert C. Curtis and Charles C. Curtis, Richard P. Jones and Philip E. Tabb (business) for $744.72 (1844); \"List of Richd P. Jones' negroes and their ages in 1863; indenture inventory of the estate of Sam Bolling (1875); and receipt for coffin of W. T. Jones from Richard W. Jones (1877).","1859 letter by Jno A. B. Thornton certifying that Warner T. Jones was elected to represent Gloucester in the House of Delegates; 1859 form letter to the Alumni of William and Mary Collection, asking for donations; 1880 letter from George B. Harrison asking for help in an English deposition; 1882 Power of Attorney given to Warner Jones for Martha T. Vandergrift; and an 1891 resolution from the Faculty of the College of William and Mary on their appreciation of the character of the late Judge Warner T. Jones.","\"A Review of the Circular Letter of the Attorney General...to the Marshals...in Relation to Elections,\" possibly 1863. June 30, 1929 Richmond Times-Dispatch about the Wells Cathedral in England; February 11, 1912 Times-Dispatch \"Our Confederate Column\"; and clippings on religion and wedding announcements.","Four handwritten business cards for C. C. Curtis (one with a note); weekly reports from \"Lane and Meade's School\"in Richmond, Virginia for C.C. Curtis (1868); and newspaper article about Court of Appeals session where John Poindexter's conviction of killing C. C. Curtis on March 3, 1879 was affirmed.","1873 certificate for Miss Mary T. Jones who is \"authorized to teach in the Public Free Schools of Gloucester County...1874\" and list of \"Mary's pallbearers.\"","1863 Confederate Bonds for Five Hundred Dollars belonging to L. A. and R. M. Page.","Business Card for \"The Davis Carriage Company\" with \"lines...found on the walls of Old Blandford Church...,\" small Christmas card, printed funeral service for Catherine Elizabeth Murray (1940), 1932 News Leader \"In By-gone Days\" about \"William and Mary College...to be revived and continue as a State Normal School...General William B. Taliaferro and Judge Warner T. Jones have been indefatigable in the cause\"; and a calling card for Misses Jones.","William Langhorn's 1823 will in King William County, leaving property in England, \"Fox Court,\" to his Throckmorton cousins. The will was not recognized by English Law and his property was considered intestate. Mostly correspondence about determining the legality of the heirs and the division of the estate, but also includes rental receipts, deeds, agreements and accounts. One document, \"Case,\" says that the English property was willed to William Langborn by Mary Langborn in 1783 and his heirs were the children of his sister, a Throckmorton. Family members involved in the settlement are: Warner T. Taliaferro, Alexander G. Taliaferro, William Taliaferro, Richard P. Jones, Nancy T. Jones, Lucy Anne and Mann Page, Anne Jones, Harriet T. Curtis, John and Lucy M. Page and Henry and Fanny T. Harrison. Other names include Mrs. Sheldon, John and Sally Throckmorton Dixon.","Typescript of \"Record of Major William Langborn's Revolutionary War Service\"; 1838 Revolutionary War Claim by heirs of William Langborn; 1840 survey of Ohio land granted William Lanborn on reverse of a letter to Charles C. Curtis; and an April 7, 1840 indenture between Charles C. and Harret T. Jones Curtis and Warmer T. Jones giving Warner T. Jones all interest in the King William County land once owned by William Langborn.","Poems and stories written by various members of all the families, though the writer is usually not identified. Includes \"Mr. Adam Foster's Letters describing 'old times in Gloucester Co., Va'\" in 1848, sent to Mary and belonging to M. L. Tabb of St. Catherine's School; poem written for Maria Greenhow of Williamsburg by Leander, fragment of text,\" copied by F. B. Macaulay in 1854; Romeo and Juliet (revised and improved), a story about a cat named Dolly by F. C. J.; \"Female Character\" by Mary F. Jones; handwritten obituary for a pet bird (1874); \"popular sayings from Pope\"; fragment of notes, poem on the death of \"Little Lizzie\"; calculation of crop rotation and profits using \"The Henley Four Field System\"; prose story about Lands End; note that describes \"...romantic delusion that the south was inhabited exclusively by aristocrats and picturesque negroes...\"; fragment of a story about a young girl at a ball; notes on Spanish and European religious and political history; page from a book with a poem entitled \"Stillness,\" which is addressed to Bangy; recipe for \"Tomatoe Catsup,\" and a typescript manuscript of \"Cousin Martha's recollections\" of Eagle Point, Lands End and other areas of Gloucester.","Papers of the Jones Family and collateral families, the Fauntleroy Family, the Taliaferro Family, the Sheldon Family, and others. Includes printed material, obituaries and writings. This accession was a gift of Maria Talcott. Mss. Acc. 1955.001 Addition.","October 28, 1825 letter from Mary L. Fauntleroy in Oakley to Miss Apphia B. Fauntleroy in Richmond, Virginia about her sadness because of the death of their sister and brother. Undated letter to Mother from Maria Greenhow (tear) about her activities in Richmond. August 11, 1873 letter to Mary from Janet, telling about attending the Virginia Council in Winchester, Virginia with her father. Undated letter to Mrs. Mary Lewis Browning from Sally Taliaferro about news of weddings and friends. Partial Last Will and Testament of Thomas Fauntleroy, dated February 1820.","Letters and documents spanning from 1859 to 1916. Documents concerning Warner T. Jones include an 1859 invoice from E.B. Spence; 1861 invitation to a Ball at Rosewell by the Gentlemen of Gloucester; 1861 bill for room and other items at the Spotswood Hotel in Richmond; 1862 receipt for the American Hotel in Richmond; 1865 check from Pugh; 1866 letter from unknown at Millhouse to Warner about property (Sheldon?) and news of friends; undated (after 1887) opinion from T.G. Jones to Hon. W.T. Jones about the \"matter of the old dragon Bridge and causeway now pending in Gloucester County Court\" in Middlesex and Gloucester Counties; May 12th, 186? letter from Capt. Chs. Garnett to Col. Jones about \"Scouts from Gwynn's Island report persons landing \u0026 marching towards ...women \u0026 children leaving for mainland in night...\"; a 1873 card for free travel on the Atlantic Mississippi and Ohio Railroad; and a partial undated letter from W. T. Jones while at William and Mary; August 1863 letter to \"My Very Dear Sister\" from her sister in Chatham telling of news of friends, deaths in the war, Mr. Gringam's whereabouts, the hot summer, her garden in Richmond and the Yankees stopping the mail; 1884 letter from son P. E. Jones to his Mother, Maria Jones, about family news; a 1916 envelope addressed to Richard Jones, and a 1922 paper on the Throckmorton family by William Carter Stubbs. Undated material includes a genealogical note about the Warner and Smith families; a report on the Throckmorton family; undated letter between two Jones sisters; small poetry notebook; and a handwritten copy of a letter written by Emanuel Jones, Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County with a \"list of questions sent out by the Bishop of London in 1724,\" with answers.","April 13, 1864 Confederate Bond for J. C. Sheldon; typed \"Story of Land's End\" about Captain John Sinclair; 1869 and 1871 court judgments in the cases of Spencer Forrest vs. William T. Hicks, William Lane vs. William T. Hicks and others against William T. Hicks.","Undated wedding invitation between Olivia Clarke Bridges and Robert Colgate Selden; 1899 Circuit Court judgment in Gloucester, Virginia in Smith vs. Taliaferro; a 1901 booklet about Philip Alexander Taliaferro; undated document about the division of the estate of William Langborn and his heirs, the Taliaferro and Jones families, with a \"Memoranda relative to Capt. Philip Taliaferro and Major Wm Langbourne\" about Langborn not receiving pay during his military service.","Obituaries for Dr. E. C. S. Taliaferro and Mary Fauntleroy Jones.","1864 pamphlet, signed by M. B. Custis, entitled \"Our Father's Care. a Ballad. by Mrs. Sewell,\" printed by the Presbyterian Committee of Publication in Richmond, Virginia. Religious pamphlet entitled, \"Morning Watches.\" \"Vital Facts about Jamestown, Yorktown, Williamsburg, College of William and Mary,\" revised 1932.","Notes and draft entitled \"A History of Petsworth Parish.\" Petsworth Parish is in Gloucester County, Virginia. Possibly written by Mary Fauntleroy Jones.","Handwritten partial stories and a poem, \"The Little Flower Maiden.\"  Pages of the stories are numbered, but many seem to be missing.  These stories were possibly written by Mary F. Jones since they arrived in an envelope addressed to Miss Mary F. Jones.","A small book, \"Teacher's Pocket Record,\" with some records kept, but most are covered by newspaper clippings."],"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_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Jones family","Curtis family","Page family","Taliaferro family.","Cringan family","Fauntleroy family","Harrison family","Hicks family","Mackenzie family","Sheldon family","Sinclair family","Taliaferro family","Coleman, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington, 1832-1908","Foster, Adam","Jones, Mary Fauntleroy","Jones, Mary Throckmorton","Jones, Richard P.","Jones, Warner Throckmorton","Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827","Langborn, William"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"names_coll_ssim":["Cringan family","Curtis family","Fauntleroy family","Harrison family","Hicks family","Jones family","Mackenzie family","Page family","Sheldon family","Sinclair family","Taliaferro family","Langborn, William"],"famname_ssim":["Jones family","Curtis family","Page family","Taliaferro family.","Cringan family","Fauntleroy family","Harrison family","Hicks family","Mackenzie family","Sheldon family","Sinclair family","Taliaferro family"],"persname_ssim":["Coleman, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington, 1832-1908","Foster, Adam","Jones, Mary Fauntleroy","Jones, Mary Throckmorton","Jones, Richard P.","Jones, Warner Throckmorton","Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827","Langborn, William"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":60,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T04:36:39.414Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1826-1916, of the Jones family of \"Land's End,\" Gloucester County, Virginia, and related families of Curtis, Taliaferro, Page and Harrison. Includes correspondence, genealogical notes, obituaries, legal files, real estate material, notes concerning Land's End, Petsworth Parish (Gloucester County), Yorktown, and the homes of the Cringan family and the Mackenzie family, and Bible records of the Jones and Fauntleroy families.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe first two accessions, which compose the bulk of the material, are gifts of Mrs. Jackson  L. Fray, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAddition Mss. Acc. 1955.001 was given by Maria Talcott, but the material deals with the same family, so it has been included with the Fray gift accessions.  She was a first cousin of Mary Fauntleroy Cocke Fray and granddaughter of Harriet Jones and Charles Curtis.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMary Fauntleroy Cocke Fray was the daughter of William Fauntleroy Cocke and great granddaughter of Harriet Jones and Charles Curtis.  The 1969 accessions are family papers and documents from both the Jones and Curtis families with some material relating to the Cocke family.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHarriet's parents were Richard and Martha Washington Throckmorton Jones and her siblings were William Langborne, Mary Lanborne, Lucy Ann (married Mann Page), John James Emanuel, Richard P. (married Maria Greenhow Curtis) and Warner Throckmorton Jones (never married and lived with both his Curtis relations through the years).  Harriet Jones Curtis's children were Martha, Harriet, Lucy, Mary, Fanny and Charles Curtis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1826-1916, of the Jones family of \"Land's End,\" Gloucester County, Virginia, and related families of Curtis, Taliaferro, Page and Harrison. Includes correspondence, genealogical notes, obituaries, legal files, real estate material, notes concerning Land's End, Petsworth Parish (Gloucester County), Yorktown, and the homes of the Cringan family and the Mackenzie family, and Bible records of the Jones and Fauntleroy families.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe first two accessions, which compose the bulk of the material, are gifts of Mrs. Jackson  L. Fray, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items which include correspondence from F. Du-Veil, Warner T. Jones, Mary B. Curtis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items which include letters from Charles M. Jones, M.G. Jones, Emma G. De Sausseur, L.A. Page, E.M. Wellford, Ella B. Howard and Mary T. Davies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items including letters from Warner T. Jones, E.H. Dabney, Julia Meredith, Jos. Bryan, Susan E. Maury, St. G.T.C. Bryan and Preston Cocke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items including letters fro M.G. Jones, M.G. Clarke, Leah T. Taliaferro and Mag. S. Smith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items which include letters from M.G. Jones (Civil War comment), Sue Byrd, Mary C. Mason, Mary F. Jones and Fannie Curtis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogy correspondence, notes, printed material on the Blackburne, Booth, Curtis, Elizabeth (Queen), Fitzhugh, Jones, Langborn, Lawson, Payne, Pemberton, Throckmorton and Warner Families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten story.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 stories:  \"John Marshall\" (3 pages); \"Francesca, the Venetian Bride\" (4 pages); and \"The Love of Marie Rayneval\" (20 pages).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Salon of Madame Necker\" the Standard Series:  Volume II, Parts III and IV, 1880, Volume III, Parts V and VI, 1881. Signed on covers \"Martha T. Jones, Land's End, Gloucester Co., Va.\"  Booklet, \"Easy Questions for a little child, etc.\" published by Gen. Prot. Episcopal Sunday School Union, New York, undated, 40 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne page of births (1828-1868) and one page of deaths (1830-1939); obituaries of Miss Martha T. Jones (d. 1952 January 16) and Fanny Curtis Jones (d. 1954 October 28); 1 page of marriages, Curtis-Fauntleroy-Jones; and 1 memo from C. Nelson to Miss Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpansive notes on a possible biographical paper which includes thoughts on a variety of topics such as politics, religion, the South, Banks and much more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1833 payment from Mann Page, 1846 invoice of C. C. Curtis, 1849 invoice from Beers and Poindexter, 1858 receipt for Robert Armistead, 1878 receipt for Marg. T. Jones for a Saratoga Trunk, 1878 letter to Bangy about items purchased, 1915 receipt of the Misses Jones with The Gloucester Pharmacy, 1927 bill from Dr. Windells for Martha T. Jones, 1940 bank receipt and Curtis receipt in regards to Thomas Fauntleroy's will (undated).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of estate and an account of a sale of estate items with buyers and items listed with their prices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills, invoices and receipts for  items purchased by Richard P. Jones.  Businesses and others include Thomas B. Taliaferro (household items), Mitchell and Tyler of Richmond, Chris Heirsch, Potter and Middleton of Baltimore (furniture), G. Earnest \u0026amp; W. Cowles of Baltimore (China), Gwyn \u0026amp; Co. of Baltimore (cloth), Monroe Nicolson (cloth, household items), Heywood Smith (general store), J. T. Guy (house repair) and Sam M. Price \u0026amp; Co (sewing supplies).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1842 invoice from Augustine Owen, 1846 receipt from Diggs' Hotel, 1855 account with R. B. Taliaferro, 1860 account with Oscar Granz of Richmond, 1863 note saying A. Grady will deliver...twelve servants, 1861 invoice from John C. Shafer,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Armistead from Warner Lewis J[ones], 16 May 1768.  Possibly a copy of the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1805 letter written from Lynchburg to Uncle, partial letter written from Upton in 1811 and an 1821 letter from A. Sheldon in Rubert to Jacob Sheldon in Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1834 letter from M. Southgate to Elizabeth Page, his sister, about the shock of his wife's death (Louisa) and 1838 letter from Uncle Richard Jones to Cadet Francis W. Page at West Point Military Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragments of letter to Cadet Frank N. Page at West Point from Warner T. Jones, January 12, 1849.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1851 letter from Unknown in Newport, Rhode Island to Major about his visit to Capon Springs and his health problems. 1855 letter from Julia in Alexandria to Maria, 1858 letter to Mother from Daughter and an 1859 letter from D.B. Page of Carybrook to \"friend\" sending condolences about the death of her baby. Includes 1859 letter to Jones from St. G. Tucker in Ashland about Jones request for his copy of \"Journal and Documents,\" which Tucker explains is usually only borrowed by new members during the Journal Session. Tucker also explains his view on new bill about \"ordinary\" and \"Merchants License\" and how McCue of Augusta and Haywood of Marion \"concocted an amendment to each of them\"...\" to extend the promises of the bill to trading with free negroes as well as slaves.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated (circa 1861) letter from H. Baytop in Gloucester to Col. Jones, in which he states \"I have been offered the Captaincy of a uniform Rifle Company and I had rather accept of that than to be ... I am perfectly willing to serve under you but am not willing to be under any underling\"... \"let me know if I can get the situation of Paymaster...\" January 1861 letter to \"Aunt\" from Fannie Harrison at Carter Hall about family and friends with a few references to the war. January 1861 letter to \"Brother\" from sibling in Richmond about the weather preventing the nominations of representatives to the Convention and resulting in too many candidates ...\"to the cause of immediate state secession,\" he is convinced \"is the path of safety and of honor\" and \"immediate secession is gaining ground rapidly.\" He also mentions different areas of the state and their feelings about secession and how some of them lean towards the Union and others choosing Whigs as their representatives. Letter is unfinished. January 1861 letter to Warner from P. R. Page at the Ship Yard giving details of the election process in selecting a representative to the Convention, with Seawell getting 132 votes and William Taliaferro getting 38. February 1861 letter from J.C. Sheldon at Wilson's Creek to Cal about the property and Mr. Langborn's will. August 1862 letter to Maria from a friend in Richmond about family news. July 1862 letter from D. M. Taliaferro in Gloucester to Warner T. Jones in Richmond about the circumstances of John Richard White leaving Richmond because of sick relatives. Series of letters to Cousin Maria from Mary L. Browning of Greenfield about family affairs. Letters are undated, but probably written in the 1860s. 1864 letter to Maria Jones from Cousin Mary Harrison about the death of Mary's Aunt and family news. July 1864 letter to Martha from Mary L. Browning mostly about the War: who died, who is on disability and where friends are or have been during the war. July 4, 1864 letter from sister MBC (Mary Booth Curtis) in Richmond, Virginia to her sister, Mrs. R. P. Jones (Marie Curtis Jones) about the war with comments such as \"I think today may be the most important of the war as it is supposed Grant will try and do something...,\" \" I have no doubt of the issue but the loss of life sickens me.\" She also mentions prices of food in Richmond and the whereabouts of family and friends. Two August 1864 letters from Fannie in Nelson's Creek to Emily Kemp about visiting, illness of Martha and family news. February 4, 1865 letter from D.B. Page in Carybrook as part of the military to \"friend,\" mostly about friends, family and missing Gloucester. Letter is torn, stained and fragile. March 12, 1865 letter from Joel Thomas to wife, Indiana E. Thomas, with location \"In the Trenches.\" He explains the cost system of sending packages and people stealing from personal shipments. On the second page of the letter he says that his regiment is out of the trenches and living in cabins near Dinwiddie Court House, 10 miles from Petersburg. He writes of movement of troops, news of his and her brothers and his good wishes to his and her family. January 15, 1866 letter written from Greenfield to cousin about death of Aunt Judy in Montgomery, hard times after the war such that \"the gentlemen look worse than they did during the war\" and \"my faithful Hillary and Hannah went off, could not induce them to stay and all through the war, Hillary was as faithful and good as possible...\" January 15, 1866 letter from Aunt MBC (Martha Booth Curtis) to Bangy (Mary) asking her to visit and \"got a letter from Mrs. Coleman...in which she said she would open her school in Wmsburg the 15th of March\" and encourages Bangy to go. 1866 letter from Cousin Louis West in Pensacola, Florida to Cousin Mary about the death of Mrs. Caldwell. July 1866 letter from Maria at Hunting Quarter to Cousin about \"Papa going to Clarke to live\" with Henry Harrison and they will follow, plus other family news. September 1966 letter from Richmond to \"Mother\" about where she is living. March 1867 letter from Burwell to cousin about paying her to care for his Aunt. August 30, 1867 letter from Cynthia B. T. Coleman in Aldie, Loudoun County to Maria about teaching her daughter English and Music for free, but can't afford to give free board plus news of her visits to friends. 1869 letter to B about family and being homesick. 1869 letter from Martha Throgmorton to her sister, with postscript by her Mother about family news. 1869 letter from E. Browning to Charlie about a fire in their house that killed their granddaughter, Anna. 1869 letter from Rebecca Tabb to Charlie about the coat he gave LLoyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany letters to and from Curtis and Jones family members. Writers include Mary Booth Curtis, C. C. Curtis, Susan, George O. Nicholson, Allie, sister, Maggie Locke, Martha T. Jones, Huntingdon, Bassett French, David N. Baldwin, M. Curtis, Aunt Lea Page, Barney, Maria Cocke, Preston Cocke, Emily and other indecipherable names. Recipients include Sister, Brother, Cousin, Julia and M. Thompson, Martha (sister), Mary, Emily, Mrs. Semple, Cousin Martha, Matty, Bangy (Mary), Richard Jones, B, Mary Jones, Charlie, Fanny, C.C. Curtis and others. Content is mostly news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters are between members of the Jones and Curtis families. Writers include John R. Page, S.S. Page, Annie (Blaxton), W. T. Williams (to Bangie about her Mother's death) and Philip A. Taliaferro. Recipients include Maria, Martha, Fannie, Bangie, Sister and Cousin Martha. Mostly concerns family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters between Jones and Curtis family members. Writers and recipients include Thomas Nelson Page to Cousin Mrs. M. T. P. Vandergrift (about a story she wrote), P. M. Thompson in Williamsburg to Mary about the death of her Uncle, H. B. Kendig (sending checks to Miss Jones) and Sally Nelson Robins (of the Virginia Historical Society) to Mary about some documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1932 letter to Martha and Fanny from Cousin M. J. Vandegrift about family news, and a 1948 letter to Martha from Mrs. H. O. Sanders of Gloucester, saying she found some of \"Mama's diaries and was having them typed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWriters include E. Browning, Elizabeth Byrd Nichols, F.L. B. Cocke, Mother, MBG, unknown Taliaferro, Sister, friend, M.F. Jones, Fanny, Lilly Page, Lizzie Archer, Martha, Mr. Cocke, Aunt Booth, Child and Marion. Recipients include Friend , Bangy (Mary), Miss Jones, Bangy, B. and Sister M, Mother, Sister, Friend, MBC, B, Martha, Mary, Mrs. R.P. Jones, Maria Jones, Children, Niece, Fanny and Miss Jones. Includes a copy of a letter of George Herberts to \"Dear Sick Sister,\" a letter fragment about Florida and assuming government funding to remove native population, letter to Maria from Mr. Cocke where he sends her a four leaf clover (no longer with letter) and a wedding invitation. Topics include all areas of family life and news of friends, family and neighbors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated correspondence to a son or daughter, written either from Richmond, Virginia or Lands End in Gloucester, Virginia. Writer is probably Harriet Throckmorton Curtis and/or Martha T. Jones. Topic is mostly news of family, friends and neighbors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1840s letters from his sister, Harriet Throckmorton Jones, of Lowlands Cottage, to Richard Jones in Baltimore, telling of local and family news; 1849 letter about finances from Thomas W. Fauntleroy; 1851 letter from C. Lebaron about an account with L. Fauntleroy; 1853 letter from cousin A. Dabney in Raymond, Mississippi; 1853 and 1860 letters from Robert B. Armistead of Alabama about the estate of George Fauntleroy; 1869 letter from Henry Harrison of Millwood about a bond; 1874 letter from M. B. C. about death and God; 1882 note to Mrs. Richard Jones from Cynthia B. T. Coleman mentioning a 50th anniversary; and an undated invitation from Dr. and Mrs. Tabb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an 1860 letter from P. R. Page in Gloucester about not getting paid as an officer in the Army, giving examples and ranting about the unfairness of the system; 1860 letter from a ? W. Power in Yorktown about Jones' solicitation on behalf of the Volunteer Companies of Gloucester to erect a permanent memorial at Yorktown; 1861 letter from John W. C. Catlett, asking Jones to pick up an earring he left at a shop in Richmond; 1864 letter from C. C. Curtis about the will of Cora Harriet Shelden; 1867 letter from John R. Page about applying before the Members of the Board; 1871 letter from Henry Harrison recommending John R. Page as County Judge; 1873 letter from John R. Page, professor of Natural History at The University of Virginia, about the resolution to fund the University; 1884 letter to Judge W. Crump about a meeting to discuss the finances of William and Mary; 1886 letters about a deed of trust; 1890 letter from Joseph Bryan and an 1890 letter from W. C. Throckmorton of Danville, Virginia about Throckmorton genealogy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1884 letter to Miss M. F. Jones from S. G. Fauntleroy about coat of arms and other family information; 1894 letters from S. Bassett French to Richard Jones about genealogy; and a 1901 letter to Miss Jones from Edwin Hawley, about the Throckmorton Family. Notes and charts about families; obituaries of Burgh Taliaferro, Rev. Charles Mann, Virginia Throckmorton and Fielding L. Taylor; a correction of the genealogy done by Miss Hary Fauntleroy by unknown person; notes on descendants of Mary Warner; notes on Read and Warner families; genealogy article about connection between the Queen, Washington and Lee, gravestone inscriptions of William Langhorne of King William County and Sarah Ann Weatherby Smith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1835 note for purchases at estate sale by Warner T. Taliaferro; 1849 note to the Commissioner of Revenue of Gloucester County, transferring 802 acres from C.S. Jones to Richard P. Jones; 1844 indenture between the company of Curtis Jones and Robert C. Curtis; 1845-6 bonds; 1851 final payment for the purchase of Lands End; 1863 list of \"negroes and their ages\"; 1875 appraisal by Richard P. Jones and R. M. Page for personal estate of Sam Bolling; and a 1877 payment by Richard W. Jones to James D. Pointer for Richard P. Jones' coffin. Also includes an 1890 letter to Mary from George B. Harrison, about English property of Coryndon Carpenter, which by his 1776 will \"devised two small farms in Cornwall to his brother Nathaniel Carpenter...of King and Queen County...after his death to be sold and the proceeds to be divided between the four sons of Dr. Carpenter: Coryndon, William Fauntleroy, Bushrod and Nathaniel; and 1830-1852 guardian account records for Maria G. Curtis and R. P. Jones with C. C. Curtis the guardian of Maria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes receipts from purchases, notes and real estate; an accounting of an estate for Miss Maria G. Curtis and R. P. Jones (1830-1852); indenture between Robert C. Curtis and Charles C. Curtis, Richard P. Jones and Philip E. Tabb (business) for $744.72 (1844); \"List of Richd P. Jones' negroes and their ages in 1863; indenture inventory of the estate of Sam Bolling (1875); and receipt for coffin of W. T. Jones from Richard W. Jones (1877).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1859 letter by Jno A. B. Thornton certifying that Warner T. Jones was elected to represent Gloucester in the House of Delegates; 1859 form letter to the Alumni of William and Mary Collection, asking for donations; 1880 letter from George B. Harrison asking for help in an English deposition; 1882 Power of Attorney given to Warner Jones for Martha T. Vandergrift; and an 1891 resolution from the Faculty of the College of William and Mary on their appreciation of the character of the late Judge Warner T. Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A Review of the Circular Letter of the Attorney General...to the Marshals...in Relation to Elections,\" possibly 1863. June 30, 1929 Richmond Times-Dispatch about the Wells Cathedral in England; February 11, 1912 Times-Dispatch \"Our Confederate Column\"; and clippings on religion and wedding announcements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour handwritten business cards for C. C. Curtis (one with a note); weekly reports from \"Lane and Meade's School\"in Richmond, Virginia for C.C. Curtis (1868); and newspaper article about Court of Appeals session where John Poindexter's conviction of killing C. C. Curtis on March 3, 1879 was affirmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1873 certificate for Miss Mary T. Jones who is \"authorized to teach in the Public Free Schools of Gloucester County...1874\" and list of \"Mary's pallbearers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1863 Confederate Bonds for Five Hundred Dollars belonging to L. A. and R. M. Page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness Card for \"The Davis Carriage Company\" with \"lines...found on the walls of Old Blandford Church...,\" small Christmas card, printed funeral service for Catherine Elizabeth Murray (1940), 1932 News Leader \"In By-gone Days\" about \"William and Mary College...to be revived and continue as a State Normal School...General William B. Taliaferro and Judge Warner T. Jones have been indefatigable in the cause\"; and a calling card for Misses Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Langhorn's 1823 will in King William County, leaving property in England, \"Fox Court,\" to his Throckmorton cousins. The will was not recognized by English Law and his property was considered intestate. Mostly correspondence about determining the legality of the heirs and the division of the estate, but also includes rental receipts, deeds, agreements and accounts. One document, \"Case,\" says that the English property was willed to William Langborn by Mary Langborn in 1783 and his heirs were the children of his sister, a Throckmorton. Family members involved in the settlement are: Warner T. Taliaferro, Alexander G. Taliaferro, William Taliaferro, Richard P. Jones, Nancy T. Jones, Lucy Anne and Mann Page, Anne Jones, Harriet T. Curtis, John and Lucy M. Page and Henry and Fanny T. Harrison. Other names include Mrs. Sheldon, John and Sally Throckmorton Dixon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript of \"Record of Major William Langborn's Revolutionary War Service\"; 1838 Revolutionary War Claim by heirs of William Langborn; 1840 survey of Ohio land granted William Lanborn on reverse of a letter to Charles C. Curtis; and an April 7, 1840 indenture between Charles C. and Harret T. Jones Curtis and Warmer T. Jones giving Warner T. Jones all interest in the King William County land once owned by William Langborn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoems and stories written by various members of all the families, though the writer is usually not identified. Includes \"Mr. Adam Foster's Letters describing 'old times in Gloucester Co., Va'\" in 1848, sent to Mary and belonging to M. L. Tabb of St. Catherine's School; poem written for Maria Greenhow of Williamsburg by Leander, fragment of text,\" copied by F. B. Macaulay in 1854; Romeo and Juliet (revised and improved), a story about a cat named Dolly by F. C. J.; \"Female Character\" by Mary F. Jones; handwritten obituary for a pet bird (1874); \"popular sayings from Pope\"; fragment of notes, poem on the death of \"Little Lizzie\"; calculation of crop rotation and profits using \"The Henley Four Field System\"; prose story about Lands End; note that describes \"...romantic delusion that the south was inhabited exclusively by aristocrats and picturesque negroes...\"; fragment of a story about a young girl at a ball; notes on Spanish and European religious and political history; page from a book with a poem entitled \"Stillness,\" which is addressed to Bangy; recipe for \"Tomatoe Catsup,\" and a typescript manuscript of \"Cousin Martha's recollections\" of Eagle Point, Lands End and other areas of Gloucester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers of the Jones Family and collateral families, the Fauntleroy Family, the Taliaferro Family, the Sheldon Family, and others. Includes printed material, obituaries and writings. This accession was a gift of Maria Talcott. Mss. Acc. 1955.001 Addition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOctober 28, 1825 letter from Mary L. Fauntleroy in Oakley to Miss Apphia B. Fauntleroy in Richmond, Virginia about her sadness because of the death of their sister and brother. Undated letter to Mother from Maria Greenhow (tear) about her activities in Richmond. August 11, 1873 letter to Mary from Janet, telling about attending the Virginia Council in Winchester, Virginia with her father. Undated letter to Mrs. Mary Lewis Browning from Sally Taliaferro about news of weddings and friends. Partial Last Will and Testament of Thomas Fauntleroy, dated February 1820.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and documents spanning from 1859 to 1916. Documents concerning Warner T. Jones include an 1859 invoice from E.B. Spence; 1861 invitation to a Ball at Rosewell by the Gentlemen of Gloucester; 1861 bill for room and other items at the Spotswood Hotel in Richmond; 1862 receipt for the American Hotel in Richmond; 1865 check from Pugh; 1866 letter from unknown at Millhouse to Warner about property (Sheldon?) and news of friends; undated (after 1887) opinion from T.G. Jones to Hon. W.T. Jones about the \"matter of the old dragon Bridge and causeway now pending in Gloucester County Court\" in Middlesex and Gloucester Counties; May 12th, 186? letter from Capt. Chs. Garnett to Col. Jones about \"Scouts from Gwynn's Island report persons landing \u0026amp; marching towards ...women \u0026amp; children leaving for mainland in night...\"; a 1873 card for free travel on the Atlantic Mississippi and Ohio Railroad; and a partial undated letter from W. T. Jones while at William and Mary; August 1863 letter to \"My Very Dear Sister\" from her sister in Chatham telling of news of friends, deaths in the war, Mr. Gringam's whereabouts, the hot summer, her garden in Richmond and the Yankees stopping the mail; 1884 letter from son P. E. Jones to his Mother, Maria Jones, about family news; a 1916 envelope addressed to Richard Jones, and a 1922 paper on the Throckmorton family by William Carter Stubbs. Undated material includes a genealogical note about the Warner and Smith families; a report on the Throckmorton family; undated letter between two Jones sisters; small poetry notebook; and a handwritten copy of a letter written by Emanuel Jones, Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County with a \"list of questions sent out by the Bishop of London in 1724,\" with answers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApril 13, 1864 Confederate Bond for J. C. Sheldon; typed \"Story of Land's End\" about Captain John Sinclair; 1869 and 1871 court judgments in the cases of Spencer Forrest vs. William T. Hicks, William Lane vs. William T. Hicks and others against William T. Hicks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated wedding invitation between Olivia Clarke Bridges and Robert Colgate Selden; 1899 Circuit Court judgment in Gloucester, Virginia in Smith vs. Taliaferro; a 1901 booklet about Philip Alexander Taliaferro; undated document about the division of the estate of William Langborn and his heirs, the Taliaferro and Jones families, with a \"Memoranda relative to Capt. Philip Taliaferro and Major Wm Langbourne\" about Langborn not receiving pay during his military service.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObituaries for Dr. E. C. S. Taliaferro and Mary Fauntleroy Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1864 pamphlet, signed by M. B. Custis, entitled \"Our Father's Care. a Ballad. by Mrs. Sewell,\" printed by the Presbyterian Committee of Publication in Richmond, Virginia. Religious pamphlet entitled, \"Morning Watches.\" \"Vital Facts about Jamestown, Yorktown, Williamsburg, College of William and Mary,\" revised 1932.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes and draft entitled \"A History of Petsworth Parish.\" Petsworth Parish is in Gloucester County, Virginia. Possibly written by Mary Fauntleroy Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHandwritten partial stories and a poem, \"The Little Flower Maiden.\"  Pages of the stories are numbered, but many seem to be missing.  These stories were possibly written by Mary F. Jones since they arrived in an envelope addressed to Miss Mary F. 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Collection includes letters, 1813-1818, concerning patients (including slaves)."," Includes land signed by Henry Lee and John Tyler, items relating to \"Actonplace\" [Acton] English estate of William Jennings and plats of land in Albemarle County, Virginia; as well as letters of members of the Brown family."," Charles Brown Papers 1792-1888, Albemarle County Virginia is available on microfilm in Swem Library's microforms area, 1 reel, call number HD1471 .U5 R43  36 reels.","Letters about  the estate of William Jennings of Actonplace England with Charles Brown as the executor. 1859-1877.  Letters that were sent to or written by Charles Brown concerning his patients, 1813-1818. 193 items.","Letters from or concerning patients and correspondence with Charles Brown as the Executor of the estate of William Jennings.","Charles Brown was the Executor of the estate of William Jennings. In the search for descendants of William Jennings, there is genealogical information on the descendants of Cornelius Dabney and Sarah Jennings. 20 pieces.","5 letters concern slaves.","1 letter concerns a slave.","Both letters concern slaves.","Note: On the bottom of the sheet appears a note in the same hand signed James Keaton.","Letter concerns a slave.","2 letters concern slaves.","Letter concerns a slave.","Letter concerns a slave.","Letter concerns a slave.","2 letters concern slaves.","4 letters concern slaves.","1 letter concerns a slave.","2 letters concern slaves.","1 letter concerns a slave.","1 letter concerns a slave.","1 letter concerns a slave.","1 letter concerns a slave.","Letter concerns a slave.","Letter concerns a slave.","Letter concerns a slave.","Letter concerns a slave.","Letter concerns a slave.","Includes 2 letters to Dr. Ragland. Personal and business correspondence, some having to do with legal matters in Albemarle County. A few letters deal with the estate of Charles Brown's father in 1843. Other letters are from members of his religious community. Some names mentioned are: Tilman G. Maupin, George H. Smith with Polly Hardin Smith, William Adams with David M. Wingfield, J.W. Locke of Hartsville, Tennessee and J.H. Wartmann. Letter from Ira Benjamin Brown to Charles Brown thanking him for the advice to change the way he signs his name.","Important accounts and papers that were kept and used by Charles Brown.","A deed given by William D. Taylor, United States tax collector for the 18th district of Virginia, to Charles Brown, covering a tract of land in Albemarle County, Virginia.","A warrant issued by John Taylor, Governor of Virginia, granting a tract of land in Albemarle County, Virginia, to Charles Brown.","Papers concerning other lands owned by Charles Brown.","Licenses to practice medicine.","Bonds given by persons appointed by Charles Brown, sheriff of Albemarle County, Virginia, to act as deputies.","Suits against Charles Brown, sheriff of Albemarle County, Virginia.","Suit of G. T. Owens against Charles Brown.","Judgement against Charles Brown.","Papers concerning the joint ownership of a horse by Charles Brown and John Fagg.","An article on the habits and economy of the honey bee, by Charles Brown.","Papers relating to a patent for a process of preserving wood discovered by Charles Brown.","Power of attorney given to A. R. Brown and Elvira S. Ayres in the settlement of the Charles Brown estate.","Included are letters, accounts, boundary and land identifications, and estate settlement papers.","Papers consisting of invoices, receipts, etc. from members of the Brown family","Papers giving boundaries of land owned by Benjamin and Bezaleel Brown.","A warrant signed by Henry Lee, governor of Virginia, granting to Bazeleel [Bezaleel] Brown a tract of land in Albemarle County, Virginia.","Papers relating to the settlement of the estate of Judith Brown.","Papers that were created for or by persons other than the Brown family and found among Charles Brown's papers.","A warrant granting to John Barkley a tract of land in Albemarle County, Virginia.","Copy. 1 piece.","1 piece.","3 pieces.","3 pieces.","6 pieces","1 piece.","2 pieces","9 pieces.","84 pages. 6 x 4 inches.","28 pieces"],"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_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Brown family","Brown, Charles","Lee, Henry, 1756-1818","Tyler, John, Jr., 1819-1896","Jennings, William, d. 1798","Tyler, John, 1790-1862"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"names_coll_ssim":["Brown family","Jennings, William, d. 1798","Lee, Henry, 1756-1818","Tyler, John, 1790-1862"],"famname_ssim":["Brown family"],"persname_ssim":["Brown, Charles","Lee, Henry, 1756-1818","Tyler, John, Jr., 1819-1896","Jennings, William, d. 1798","Tyler, John, 1790-1862"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":157,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T05:49:48.574Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_377_c03_c02"}},{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01_c03_c08","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Accounts","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01_c03_c08#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01_c03_c08#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01_c03_c08","ref_ssm":["viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01_c03_c08"],"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01_c03_c08","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9004","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9004","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01_c03","parent_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01_c03","parent_ssim":["viw_repositories_2_resources_9004","viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01","viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01_c03"],"parent_ids_ssim":["viw_repositories_2_resources_9004","viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01","viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01_c03"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Skipwith Family papers","Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks, Map","Manuscript Volumes"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Skipwith Family papers","Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks, Map","Manuscript Volumes"],"text":["Skipwith Family papers","Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks, Map","Manuscript Volumes","Accounts","Box 23","Folder 6","Scope and Contents"],"title_filing_ssi":"Accounts","title_ssm":["Accounts"],"title_tesim":["Accounts"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1840"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1840"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Accounts"],"component_level_isim":[3],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"collection_ssim":["Skipwith Family papers"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"level_ssm":["File"],"level_ssim":["File"],"sort_isi":1484,"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":[1840],"containers_ssim":["Box 23","Folder 6"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Scope and Contents"],"_nest_path_":"/components#0/components#2/components#7","timestamp":"2026-05-21T10:55:13.419Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9004","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9004","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9004","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9004","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_9004.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Skipwith Family papers","title_ssm":["Skipwith Family papers"],"title_tesim":["Skipwith Family papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1760-1977, and undated"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1760-1977, and undated"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 Sk3","/repositories/2/resources/9004"],"text":["Mss. 65 Sk3","/repositories/2/resources/9004","Skipwith Family papers","Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775","Education--Virginia--History--19th century","Farm management--Virginia--History--19th century","French language--Study and teaching","Gardening--Virginia","Prestwould (Virginia : Estate)","Correspondence","Financial records","Receipts (financial records)","approximately 7000 items","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.","Processed by Anne Lewis and Deborah W. Smith during 1977-1978.","See also the manuscript volume of Peyton Horatio Skipwith, Jr.  (Mss. MsV Skipwith); Robert Skipwith Papers (Mss. 74s Sk3); Robert Skipwith Diaries (Mss. 65 Sk4).  A picture of the Skipwith Pianoforte is in the University Archives Photograph Collection (P2000.49)."," 2008.257 Lady Jean Skipwith Collection.","The collection contains, business papers, correspondence, accounts and the farm notes of Sir Peyton Skipwith of Mecklenburg Co., Va., son Humberstone Skipwith and Humberstone Skipwith's wives and children, especially Fulwar Skipwith. Papers are primarily business in nature and reflect the management of \"Prestwould.\""," Papers also concern the development of Lady Skipwith's library, the education of Fulwar Skipwith and his brother Grey Skipwith. Manuscript volumes concern farm accounts, gardening, the study of French and Fulwar Skipwith's lists of books.","Oversize Folder 1: Formerly Box VII, folder 5a oversize file: Feb 1, 1798 manuscript map entitled Sir Peyton Skipwith's land A.D. 1798, Joh Hill Cartographer.\nOBox XXI, Folder 33 medium oversize file, House Plans including photostat."," Skipwith Family Papers in Swem Library's microform area, 14 reels, call number HD 1471 .U5 R43 ser. L part 3","Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks, dated and undated. Boxes I-XX.","Indenture for the sale of a slave.","Deed of conveyance for 390 acres of land in Lunenburg County","Payment of twelve pounds to Mr. Sterling Thonton","Receipt for five pounds, nineteen shillings.","Account for one pound, nineteen shillings, and eleven pence. Also some rough accounts.","Receipt for the sale of a large, bay horse.","Deed.","Directions to pay Sterling Thornton five pounds, seven shillings, and four pence.","Indenture for the sale of slaves","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Receipt for five pounds, ten shillings in payment for a pair of mill stones.","Payment of three pounds, twelve shillings which he is in need of. Letter was returned and endorsed by Harris as a receipt for the money, dated August 8, 1769.","Directions for the payment to Mr. James Yancey of eight pounds, seven shillings, and six pence. Letter endorsed on April 4, 1770 by James Yancey and returned as a receipt.","Receipt for eleven pounds for two years of mill stones.","Promissory note for sixty-seven pounds, six shillings, and nine pence.","Receipt for two pair of shoes.","Bond for seventy pounds.","About a horse.","Bond for £200 for the building of three mills by September next.","Payment of some money.","Scope and Contents","Sale of some bacon and other provisions. The people in Richmond are in great want.","Receipt for nine guineas. 2 pages. Autograph document.","Bond for eighty pounds.","Bond for £130,000.","Breeding horses.","Notes on land deed and a deed of trust for 12 Negroes from Sir Peyton? Skipwith to? Ferril and? Ferril to ? Moss, and ? Holmes.","A blank indenture for payment of an unspecified account to Sir Peyton Skipwith.","The mating of several mares with his horse, Black and All Black.","Deed for title to some lands in consideration of £300.","Receipt two pounds, two shillings, and two pence.","Price of some tobacco, etc.","Bill for £795, fifteen shillings.","Transportation of some oats.","Barley.","Inspection and sale of some tobacco.","Inspection and sale of some tobacco.","Payment for some bacon sold to Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Delivery of 5000 pounds of tobacco to Mr. John C. Littlepage. Endorsed by J.C. Littlepage.","Breeding some horses.","Does not intend to sell his mare.","Payment for horse breeding.","The purchase of some bacon.","Account with Sir Peyton Skipwith, Slott?, and Donaldson, and Henry Sandifer.","Delivery of some bacon to Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Scope and Contents Bacon.","Last delivery of some corn.","Supply of some sugar.","Tobacco.","Entertaining expenses.","Conveying the Brunswick District Court order to pay some money and tobacco to David Apperson.","Sale of some tobacco. Confusion in Harwood's estate following the death of his father. A large sum of money \"for the purpose of raising a soldier.\"","Escape of a prisoner who has fled to the enemy.","Bill for a wardrobe chest and a case.","Barley. Is anxious to meet Sir Peyton.","Delivery of sugar.","Sugar.","Receipt for two hundred and five pounds, ten shillings.","About Col. Eastleigh, Miss Skipwith, etc. \"This cursed invasion has thrown everything into confusion.\"","Bond for 160,000 pounds of tobacco.","Copy of a bond for a hundred and sixty thousand pounds of crop tobacco between Robert Tucker of Sussex County and William Burge of Prince George County and Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Receipt.","Account of estate of Dr. John Ravenscroft, Cairnsmoore, Scotland, with Lillias (Miller) Ravenscroft.","Bond for £300.","Notations of a lease by Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Various bills. receipts, etc. for spices, wine, and mutton.","Statement of their account for linens.","Payment of money with interest due since 1773.","Procurement of two ship's carpenters.","Statement of his account for salt. signed in Beall's behalf by B. Holmes.","Ended the bargain he made with Mr. Smith.","Requests the return of his Negro Stewart.","Payment for 203 head of cattle delivered for the use of the French Army.","Has been ill, but will send him his money in a few days. Also the offer of an old dog - \"very slow,\" but \"is very true and good for a fox.\"","Has spent all his available money in the purchase of a horse, but will pay him shortly.","Two cows which were left in her care. Both died, but she may keep the hides.","Cannot attend his sale. Also requests payment for some bacon","Imprisonment and sale of a person who was enslaved by Sir Peyton.","Survey of land bought by Sir Peyton Skipwith from William Natchell, together with Armistead's fee for surveying the land.","Various bills, receipts, etc., for shingles, shoes, wool, and spices.","Payment of their joint bond.","Offer to defend him in his suit against Mr. Hooper.","Health of the recipient.","Death of thirty-five head of Sir Peyton's cattle, and recompense for looking after the remainder.","Disposal of some corn.","Order for corn and meal. Hears news \"that there is a certain general peace--a happy event to us.\"","About credit for £300.","Failure to pay for some salt. Threatens to take him to court.","Some corn and paints.","Spare scythe stones.","Contract.","Impending case for the settlement of a deed.","Receipt for the payment of some bonds.","Forwarding of various letters and newspapers.","Bond for the sale of some lands and Negro slaves in part settlement of a previous bond for tobacco. Also part of a fuller bond, dated October 9, 1786 entered into between Robert Turnbull, Petersburg, and Robert Tucker.","Tobacco business. \"The great advances my late partnership is in for our friends abroad, has laid me under very great and disagreeable inconveniences.\"","Various accounts, receipts, etc., for spices, shoe boots, buttons, and hinges.","Reestablishment of their correspondence, disrupted during \"the last unhappy war.\" Mr. Thomas Main will give further details in person.","Is sending his partner and nephew, Mr. Main, to settle their account, a more expedient method of settling their claims than by the use of attorneys.","Opening of correspondence with Messers. Berth and Sigrist, Amsterdam, for the consignment of tobacco.","Stray steer.","Order to pay the expenses of two witnesses testifying at the suit of James Hooper.","Tobacco.","Acquaints him of his arrival in America.","Requests the use of his surveying equipment.","Money due to Sir Peyton.","Has inquired for reliable purchasers for his goods which many will fetch eighty guineas.","Invitation to stay at Beauford.","Sale of some Negroes. All the three potential purchasers were of substance.","Mr. Hutchinson and Colonel Skirving would like to see him in person.","Bill of exchange for some cattle.","Mr. Campbell wishes to settle the matter in an English court.","Introducing himself on behalf of his firm Dawes, Stephenson, and Co., tobacco merchants.","Payment of their tobacco account. Hopes he will spare him any further trouble.","Sale of his tobacco. Hopes to meet him before he returns to England.","Security for some tobacco.","Business matters.","Mr. Ruffin's bond.","Mr. Ruffin's case to pay his bond. \"The most speedy and vigorous methods shall be pursued.\"","Mr. Fiveash's affair. Appended a statement of his account with Thomas Fiveash.","Memorandum of a bargain entered into for some cattle.","Thread and butter","Statement of Sir Peyton's account with the General Court for various suits, etc.","Tax account.","Understands he is a lenient creditor. Requests that he may pay part of the bond that he is security to for Robert Connell.","Offer to sell his land. Requests a quick determination.","Letter from Mr. Nelson concerning the price of tobacco.","Receipt for £1009..10..0.","Notifying him of his appointment as Surveyor of the road in place of Thomas Vaughan.","Bankruptcy suit filed by Mr. Murray's executors. Major portion of his debt is Mr. Allen's rather than Sir Peyton's.","Purchase of his work horse.","A blank summons to call a witness to testify on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith in his dispute with J. Harmanson?","Payment of his taxes and other business.","Payment for a Negro he has had since August 1782.","Is sorry but he has already sold the horse, but will try to procure him back. Thinks the horse is destined for New York. \"He is an excellent covering horse and well calculated to get colts for the turf.\" Remarks on the severity of the laws against racing in his state.","Some of his tobacco sold in 1775. Is glad to hear he wishes to renew his correspondence with their firm. Will do everything to protct his interests.","His letter came too late; had already sold the horse. However he expects to buy it back next season when he will have first preference. Further details about some of its colts - \"I veryyly believe him to be as pure a blooded horse as any in America or England.\"","Information regarding some cattle.","Receipt for one large packing trunk purchased of Edmund Wells, trunk and case maker.","Scope and Contents The payment of one of his notes. Has sent Captain Matthew Gibb to see him and hopes he \"will consider the disadvantage I labour under by being so long kept out of the money.\"","Discharging his bond for a tract fo land he had bought of Mr. Machary?","Cannot undertake to prosecute his case.","Mr. Ingram is doing his best to replevy his debt to him, but his scheme to do so must, by law, be approved by Sir Peyton his creditor. Also, the sale of some Negroes will not be permitted except with his approval.","Freight to England. Will remain in America till next spring.","His dismissal as surveyor, but is wishing to survey their land as a private surveyor.","His chartering of \"a fine British butt vessel\" to take his tobacco.","Will shortly be going to Richmond and desires to know what business, if any, he would like him to transact there for him.","Purchase of some cattle. 1 page. Autograph letter signed.","Must delay his visit to Richmond to attend the court where Mrs. Humphries, wife of John Humphries, is to be examined for the murder of one of her negro girls.","Requests the use of a small lumber cart to take home a box of glass.","Purchase of some cattle.","Shipment of his tobacco.","His tobacco--no offers as yet. Mr. Main will obtain freight for the goods he has ordered.","Dispatch of his notes to Colonel Joseph Green of Wayne County, N. C. for the purchase of his cattle.","His tobacco which is now on board a ship ready to sail.","Deed for the sale of some land to Bigelow on the Roanoke River.","Survey of some land and a court case pending.","Agreement to serve as overseer at Bugs Farm or on one of his plantations.","His progress at school in England. Describes a visit with Mayor Grymes to see the palace of Windsor.","Account of various legal costs.","Cattle he expects for North Carolina.","Is pleased to hear of his intention to deal in tobacco with his friends Messrs. Dawes, Stephenson and Co., London. Presents low price of tobacco and how prospects for the present growing crop are--\"which added to the restless and uneasy situation of the Northern and Eastern states will probably cause some amendment in the European market.\"","Has plotted the mill pond.","Scope and Contents Just arrived in London; bad season for visiting the city, as all fashionable people have left for \"watering places;\" will leave in a day or two for the Hague, then for Paris by way of Flanders; Eng. in a state of chaos; Irish propositions uncertain; necessity of learning French to do business not only in France but everywhere on the continent; his son Gray should learn French, and Italian too perhaps; Jefferson, already a year in France, is obliged to speak much English, so his French does not improve; Col. David Humphries, legation secretary, the same; have tried harder than any American ever to learn French; has heard of his possible visit to Europe; hopes to see him; can send letters to Col. Forrest or Fulwar Skipwith; hopes he received papers left for him in Virginia; Hog Island gave concern, and hopes he got rid of it; his kind offer of assistance may be taken up, as have not heard from Mr. Benjamin Harrison, who agreed to handle affairs; ask for a letter of credit, to be used only in an emergency; has written in this vein before, but think letters miscarried; sends this through Col. Forrest and Fulwar Skipwith.","Is loading a ship for Bristol and reminds him of his promise to send twenty hogshead of tobacco ?","Business matters.","Scantling and plank.","Goods on board the ship Robert.","Shipment of goods to him, including various types of seeds.","Order for some prunes, raisins and currants.","Prices of tobacco.","Receipt for puchase of some books including four volumes of Rabelais' books--\"very scare.\"","Loading of his tobacco on board the vessel Tweed.","Verdict and judgement of the General Court in favor of Skipwith in his suit against Ferrell. Damages of one penny plus cost.","Injunction granted to Pineas Ingram staying the proceedings in his suit with Sir Peyton over the sale of some Negroes.","Is willing to sell his land.","Fifty-five pounds, Virginia money, received of Thomas Vaughan.","Acknowledges his letter of 10 October. He is now second boy at Mr. Cotton's school where Major Grymes proposes he stays until August when he can go to Eton. Has had a letter from Uncle Miller.","Financial matters.","Bills, etc. on John Hyndman and Co.","Shoes, stockings, boots, salt, flour, spices, and bridles for horses.","List of horses delivered to Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Receipt of some money.","To meet his commitments, he will sell some land, and hopes to be allowed to \"set up at your shop or mill.\"","Has been appointed by the Court as one of the gentlement to act as executor to an estate in which Hepburn has a third interest.","Offer of a horse for £45.","His business in court and various other business matters. 2 pages.","Disposal of a South Carolina Negro, etc.","Order to impound part of the estate of Robert Harrison in payment for debts owed to Thomas Vaughan; Harrison being absconded.","Sale of 3000 lbs. of sugar on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Colonel Green will view the road next Thursday.","Ingram's tobacco.","Forwarding of five grindstones.","Breaking in of his horse to harness before his journey to Richmond.","Collection of some apple and pear trees at Shrosburys.","Letter regarding Colonel Green's report on the road.","Many favors which he acknowledges he has done for him.","Included are some for her brother, Hugh.","Receipt for £12 and five barrels of Indian corn in payment for a dark bay horse.","Warrant in the case of Downes vs. Brown. The county of residence is left blank until it is found out \"where the (delinquent) does live.\"","Bills of loading for three hogs heads of his tobacco.","Payment of some money to Sir Peyton Skipwith and other financial business.","Several suits pending that day.","Scope and Contents","Request for some rye grass seed. Also notice that the General Court is ready to take depositions in the recipients suit.","Account of the sale of twenty hogs heads of tobacco.","Summoning of Sir Peyton Skipwith to appear as a witness on behalf of Hugh Miller in his suit with James Belsches.","His invitation to settle in Liverpool where he will be pleased to settle tobacco or transact any other business for Skipwith.","Legal matters.","Receipt for seven shillings and six pence, and for fifteen shillings for seven tithes due in Surry County from Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Shipping costs to England. \"The late sales of tobacco in Britain are very far from being pleasant ones.\"","Invoice of goods shipped aboard the Helena by Hugh Miller, merchant. Insured to the value of £100 by Archibald Govan.","Overpayment of tax by Sir Peyton Skipwith for the year 1783.","Scope and Contents","Sale of his tobacco.","Sale of eighteen barrels of Indian corn to Thomas Vaughan. Sale of the Indian corn by Francis Lewis.","Receipt for the payment of the certificate tax.","Dispatch of some of his tobacco on board their vessel. \"It is said that a difference in Insurance of from 2 to 5 Guineas is made between British and American bottoms.\"","His departure for England. Hopes he may see him there shortly.","Advises him to make other arrangements for shipping his goods to England.","Bad weather and its interruption of various projects.","Is sorry his letter caused him so much distress, especially at the time of his illness. In his suit against Wills, he was awarded only £5 as against £50-60 which he ought to have received. Testimony of Collin Wills was that he struck his father with a sword. The jury was biased and he thought it best to let the matter alone rather than order a new trial.","Mr. Brown's ticket.","Payment of his debt. Had been made difficult by the \"blowing up\" of his mill.","Scope and Contents","Receipt for payment for some linen and other household goods.","A suit; advises caution.","Provision of shipping and freight rates for his tobacco.","Shipping of his tobacco.","Delivery of some clover and grass seed.","Delivery of turnip seeds, etc.","Scope and Contents Shipping and sale of his tobacco.","Freight for his tobacco.","Scope and Contents","Shipping and insurance arrangements for his tobacco.","Saddle for a horse.","Requests twenty dollars to balance his tax account.","Sale of three hogsheads of tobacco.","Shipping some tobacco to Bristol.","Sale of some lands in Lunenburg County belonging to Mr. Upshaw.","Exchange of some grass seeds.","Offers to act as overseer on Mr. Perier's plantation which he understands he intends to purchase.","Cure of his \"fellow Sam.\" Hopes he can perform a reasonable cure on his jaw.","Freight rates for tobacco on board the British vessel, Mary.","Copy of the judgement in the case of Downes vs. Mr. Brown","Subpoena served on Mr. Miles \"who I have some reason to think will be a very beneficial witness in your favour.\"","Requests that he will not insist on payment of his debt until his crop is harvested.","Scope and Contents Business for the house of Dawes Stephenson, and Co., of London. There is a \"fine new British built vessel\" in the River.","His \"agreeable passage\" back to England.","Lack of comments from him or Messers. Donaldson and Stotts regarding his tobacco.","State of twenty hogsheads of tobacco.","State of their accounts.","Tobacco and other business. \"Our crop this year will be uncommonly short and I fear but undifferent in quality, owing to the wet weather.\"","Apologizes for not seeing him regarding the indents, but was detained by the ill health of his family.","Shipment of his tobacco.","Sale of some oxen. Not possible for the moment, since he does nto care to be paid in paper money, the only currency at present available in Va.","Has viewed the land belonging to Mr. Bigelow and values it at two hundred pounds, Va currency.","Bill for the sale of twenty-one horses and colts.","Delivery of some letters, and his readiness to see him the following morning.","His bond for fifteen hundred pounds for lands on the Roanoke River, Warren County, N. C. , and also for some dwellings on the south side of Old Street, Petersburg.","A bond for fifteen hundred pounds, Virginia currency, for the title of certain lands in Warren County, N. C. , and certain buildings and land in Petersburg,","Will do all he can to raise the money and pay him that evening. Does not blame him. \"I acknowledge I have forfeited my trust.\"","His expectation of a meeting between them. Hopes to be able to set out soon for America.","Settlement of a bond.","Payment of his account with Skipwith.","His failure to see him.","Will be happy to see him when he comes down for the races.","Bond for £1220-17 for the purchase of some lands.","Invoice and statement of Sir Peyton's account with Panock, Nicolson, and Skipwith.","Mr. Taylor has been so busy that he has not had time to write.","Construction of some ditches.","Receipt and settlement of some debts.","Expects soon to have a balance of £130 in favor of Messers. Pinnock and Skipwith.","Has measured the great ditch and finds it 2260 yards long. Also includes ? to ?. Regarding the purchase of some land.","Is making up a large shipment of tobacco with difficulty and would be glad to receive any tobacco collected on his account. Also includes George Craghead, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm. December 14, 1786. Explains why he has not yet collected any of his tobacco.","John Ballard, to Sir Peyton Skipwith. About the purchase of some tobacco.","Payment of some money outstanding to him, which he does not like to press for but now needs.","Debt to Colonel William Randolph.","Scarcity of cash, the high discount on bills, and other business concerning the tobacco trade.","Various bills and receipts for clothing items, including a cap, bonnet, velvet, silk, and buttons, furnishings, including a skillet, spoons, fans, and forks, salt, sewing tools, and a wagon.","Scope and Contents","Testimony regarding his suit against Pines Ingram, William Smith, John Smith, Thomas Ingram, and John Ingram.","His suit against Mattart. Unlikely to obtain judgement within less than two years; \"The evil is in the law.\"","Payment of the debt for the horse.","His brother Henry's estate and debts which he has now taken responsibility for.","Settlement of his debt. Begs him to give him till July and not seize his securities.","Usefulness of his tobacco.","Invoice of sundry goods shipped on board the Bridget.","Tobacco sales, etc.","About the purchase of some land.","Illness of Mr. Archibald who on doctor's advice is returning to Europe. In the future, his business in America will be confined to the collection of debts.","Suit against W. Pool. Has obtained a judgement against him, and also in his suit against John Cox.","Inability to see him.","Sale of some of Mr. Poole's property and the settlement of his debts.","Statement of their account for mustard, thread, buttons, stockinette, and silk.","Bond for thirty pounds for the construction of two chimneys and hearths.","Price of lime.","Sale of his tobacco. The proceeds to be entrusted to John R. Grymes who has the care and management of his son.","Bill of his on J. Hyndman \u0026 Co. which has been returned to him.","Invoice of tobacco sales from the ship Montgomery.","Two bonds which he took care of.","Sale of some lime.","Debt for £8-2-6. Also includes Alexander Boyd, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, June 9, 1787.","A list of men using the ferry and the sums due from them.","License for a tavern and the purchase of some nails.","Business matters.","Request for some grass seed for his orchard.","Account of the sale of his tobacco received by George Edward Henderson.","Tobacco business. Is sorry that any part of his conduct could have caused ill feeling between them.","Suit by Skipwith against Royster. Also miscellaneous notes by Skipwith regarding some slaves and other items.","Receipt for settlement of debts owed to him by Jacob Mettart and James Swinton, of Petersburg.","Payment for his tobacco.","His recent illness.","Account of his tobacco sold in London.","Statement of his account for a wagon and slaves.","Rights and title to a bond. Also other jottings regarding business accounts, etc.","Are sending him a hamper of London port wine.","His attendance at the Court House.","His borrowing money on his account.","Scope and Contents","Early delivery of some tobacco.","Survey of a plot of tobacco land.","Deed for the sale of some land.","Price of tobacco in Petersburg, he requests to know.","Settlement of John Holt's estate and the provision of money for the education of his orphans--hopes he will befriend them.","Bill for various goods.","Legal provisions of an ejectment, \"an action, commonly used for the trying of titles, and recovery of lands, etc., illegally withheld from the right owner.\"","Disposal of the Holt estate.","Money for the purchase of corn. Had prevented the suit brought by Murray's prosecutors against him from being heard this court.","Court matters. Advises him to discuss the suit against Billy Heale, because of the cost of witnesses, etc.","Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, to Philip Moody. Bond for a hundred and twenty pounds, Virginia currency","Scope and Contents","Statement of his account since December 1785.","Delivery of some corn or money. \"I hope you will not fail to send me one or the other.\"","Tobacco bond. Is to deliver it up to Colonel Penn.","Sheep shearing and other farming matters. Has spoken to Major Boyce \"on account of your enormous tax in Surrey.\"","Bond for thirty five pounds, ten shillings, the balance due on the purchase of two Negro slaves.","Delivery of some iron and a pair of gloves.","Statement of his account.","Their lack of several of the articles he ordered, including a weeding hoe.","Bill for various goods, including a table cloth and drapes.","Receipt of a packet.","Tax account.","Statement of his account.","Bond for forty seven pounds, fifteen shillings.","Bond for seven hundred pounds, seven shillings and eight pence. The bond endorsed on the back as having been discharged is signed, William Allen, 3 August 1789.","Delivery of some goods, including some osnaburg fabric and nails, and the state of their account.","Bill for various goods, including thread, cloth, linen, buttons, buckles, and nails.","Purchase of some nails and buttons.","Tobacco and the disposal of other goods of his.","The Reverend Mr. John Scot and his desire \"to complete a union on which my future happiness so much and so immediately depends.\"","Collection of some fees.","Bond for two hundred pounds.","Articles requested by him.","His marriage, legal difficulties, in the laws of Virginia.","Court matters.","Bond for some Negroes he made with Mr. Peyton? Short.","Miscellaneous bill receipts for slaves, clothing and spices, and other business documents.","Purchase of some land on Butchers Creek. The plantation is in bad repair.","Debt due to Colonel Edward Harwood, payment in money or tobacco as he pleases.","Bond of one hundred pounds for the delivery of four slaves.","Purchase of some wine.","Sum of money due from him to the esate of Colonel William Harwood.","His illness since arriving in Louisville. \"Your land is started in a most growing part of the country...faster than any other part of Kentucky.\" High price of uncultivated land \"owing to the astonishing migration to the Western Country.\" General export of tobacco down the Mississippi.","Bond for thirteen pounds, ten shillings, and nine pence.","About some money due to his wife.","Personal matters.","Scope and Contents","About the purchase of some land.","Doctor Olwer; wishes he could help \"but we seem quite full of gentlemen of his profession in this part of the country.\"","Presentation of some of hsi bills to Messers Stott and Donaldson.","Accepts their offer after school ends in April; mentions his mother's Lillias (Miller) Ravenscroft marriage to Mr. Patrick Steward in Scotland.","Account of tobacco received and sold from on board the vessel Termagant.","Hop roots.","Invoice for buttons, cambrick, flannel, pepper, ginger, mustard, nutmeg, cinnamon, raisins, and salt.","Payment of thirteen pounds to Mr. William Richards. Also includes Sir Peyton Skipwith, to Thomas Vaughan,, 1789 April 20","Supply of various goods.","Receipt for two bonds on which he is bringing suits in the District Court of Petersburg.","Lease for his storehouse and lumber house at the ferry.","Invoice of goods sent to him, including salt, wine, brass knobs, a hat, flannel, and diapers.","Bond for 5,692 lbs. of tobacco.","Invoice of goods purchased.","Sale of some land.","Invoice for goods purchased, including wine and butter.","Number of his slaves.","Statement of their account for buttons.","Asks about her pregnancy; gives news of relatives and friends in Scotland; discusses mental attitudes toward the loss of a child; is preparing to give a speech at the College on August 1.","Title to a deed.","Invoice for goods purchased, including sugar and tea.","Purchase of a horse.","Goods purchased, including nails, and the state of his account.","Shipment of tobacco, and related business.","Invoice of goods purchased by him, including putty, knives, chalk, and shoes.","Statement of their account.","Their daughter Helen Skipwith, later Helen Coles and his need to attend to business.","Payment of the balance outstanding to him.","Shipment of his tobacco to London.","Pay the bearer of this letter, Mr. Allison, thirty shillings.","Agreement regarding the purchase of some land in Mecklenburg County.","Scope and Contents","Purchase of a colt. Also included Colonel William Johnson to Sir Peyton Skipwith. Regrets that he has sold the animal.","Lewis Payne, an \"industrious young man.\" Also would he pay the two hundred pounds oustanding to him.","Their account.","Purchase of some land.","Account of the sale of his tobacco received from on board the Lady St. John.","State of his suit against Mr. Robinson.","Dawes, Stephenson, \u0026 Co., London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith. About the sale of his tobacco received from on board the Hartley.","His decision to be of service to him.","Progress of his two suits in the Petersburg district court. Also enclosed is a receipt for two bonds dated March 10, 1790.","Legal matters.","Merchandise contracted for, being ready.","His title to some land.","Subpoenas for witnesses for his suits pending in the Brunswick district court.","Tobacco sales and shipments, \"the markets in Europe are glutted with Tobaco...I think there must be a demand for France as soon as the Commotions have subsided.\"","Bond for forty pounds.","Bond for one hundred and eighty pounds.","The moving of rock from Mr. Ross's plantation.","Sale of his tobacco. \"Our house does not possess the talent of flattery.\"","Sale of his property. Demands secure terms and no bad or defective title.","Outstanding taxes for 1783.","Their tobacco account.","Freight for his tobacco.","The payment of his Revenue lent to Mr. Thomas Vaughan.","Receipt for some corn, Brown writing on behalf of Stott \u0026 Donaldson.","Report on the progress of the various tasks on the plantations.","Correspondence with Major P.L. Gryms. Has not heard from Sir Peyton's son since March when he was in good health.","Bond for twenty-three pounds, four shillings and nine pence.","Scope and Contents","The delivery of a carriage and horses. Will pay him in bank notes which \"pass as specie in every state in the Union,\" there being a shortage of specie.","Business and family matters. Is endeavoring \"to get several sums due from Colonel Washington and others.\"","Will attend to his interests.","Bond for seventy pounds with Thomas Greenwood, guardian to the orphans of Robert Greenwood.","Payment of Robert Atkinson for wagon freight.","Payment of some money to Robert Birchett. Receipt for payment on the back, signed Robert Birchett, dated1792 September 27.","Discusses some bills of exchange which are in litigation, and some land Skipwith inquired about.","Invoice of goods purchased, including linen.","Bill and receipt of varous expenses and services rendered, including some wine and ale.","A Christmas box and other small matters.","Scope and Contents","The goods purchased by her.","The payment of some money","Scope and Contents","Subpoenas and witnesses for his suits in the Brunswick District Court.","Survey and plan of some land.","Port wine and Irish beef tongue.","Declaration of his authority as a justice of the city of Charleston and a public notary.","State of his account.","State of his account.","Various business matters including his offer to purchase some land belonging to Mr. Price.","The sale of some land of Mr. Price in payment for taxes.","Domestic matters.","Scope and Contents","Statement and receipt for the balance of his account.","The disposal of some land in Kentucky belonging to the estate of John Hartwell","The best time to ship his tobacco. Some apprehension that the market \"will be glutted with stemmed Tob.\"","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","His lack of a cart and the delivery of some pork.","The disposal of some land in the district of Kentucky.","A receipt for some money.","Bill \u0026 receipt for bridge tolls.","Bill for some articles furnished for his daughter.","His suits pending in the Brunswick district court.","Blank orders to summon a witness to testify on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith in his suit pending with the Executors for Edward Harward.","Several small business matters. Also his pending trip to Georgia.","Some Lusirn? Lucerne? seed.","Mr. Ruffin's injunction to the suit brought against him.","The delivery of a desk, shoes, and buckles.","Freight on board a ship bound for London.","The bad condition of the road and the desirability of a bridge over the creek near his house. .","Money oustanding on his account.","Information on the power of an attorney.","The construction of three stills.","Various business matters.","His consignment of tobacco.","The mill stone business.","Judgement and execution for debt against him.","The quantity of tobacco he wishes shipped.","Arrangements for shipping his tobacco.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","The \"Futility of the Deed\" granted for some land in Kentucky.","Tobacco business.","Concerning legal business.","The construction of a mill; also the employment of \"Pling.\"","Blank Order to summon a witness to attend the suit pending in the Brunswick district court between Sir Peyton Skipwith and the Executors for William Harwood.","Various court and legal matters.","Discusses his ill health and doctor's remedies; Mrs. McMurdo expected to die after the premature birth of a daughter, and distrust of the \"Gentlemen accoucheurs\"; mentions defunct \"Jermyn Bakeres\" ?.","The inspection of his tobacco and other business matters.","Payment of some cash.","His account with Messrs. J. \u0026 A. Freeland.","The payment of rent for the blacksmith's shop.","His collection of books.","Public auction of the Lawson Price estate (land), in Mecklenburg County. March 1794. Document concerns in the court case of James Belsches, Jr. U.S. \"Lawson price and Company\" brought before the Prince George County Court.","Deal for the sale and possession of some land.","Scope and Contents","Bills on Glasgow and London.","A visit to his sister to get her to make a pair of overalls.","Scope and Contents","Payment of the sum obtained in his suit against the Nicholas's.","Bond for two hundred and sixty-two pounds.","Note on Captain Hay in favor of Mr. Baker which he wishes presented to Sir Peyton","His readiness to advocate his claim against H. Carlton. Explains the history of the suit which began over default on a bond.","Scope and Contents","The sale of his land in Halifax County .","The settlement of their account. \"the war with France makes it necessary to prefer an American bottom,\" if payment is to be made in produce.","His order for Imperial Tea.","Request for a pair of shoes.","Some property near Washington and also business matters.","The sale of his tobacco and the granting of credit thereon.","His account.","His request for his horse to visit \"Uncle Greenwood.\"","The sale of his horse and the balance owing on the negro.","Various court matters. Also his alarm at the price of tobacco and his intention to sow more wheat in the fall.","Tax returns on his still.","The purchase of a horse.","The delivery of a letter.","Sends some \"Books of amusement or entertainment\"; mentions Mr. R his wife?; has heard nothing from Britain for a long time.","The law concerning the possession of stills.","Business from his suit against Colonel William Harwood.","The payment of some money he owes him.","Various correspondence and other business matters.","Bond for three hundred and seventy-five pounds.","Bond for one hundred and sixty-six pounds.","Various business matters.","His ague and fever; mentions his wife and Mr. Inge; the price of locally made goods is falling and the scarcity of money has affected the price of land.","Court and other legal matters.","Court business.","Various business matters.","Appointment of Short to be his attorney to sell lands claimed by him in the state of Kentucky.","The price of some pork.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Promissory note.","Scope and Contents","The Skipwith accounts; Sir Peyton's recent consignment of tobacco which did not get shipped to England; and a recent smallpox epidemic in Richmond.","Scope and Contents","Maury's receiving thirty-nine Hogs heads of Skipwith tobacco at what appeared to be an inconvenient time for market selling. Maury honors a draft of Skipwith for three hundred pounds.","Wonders why Skipwith did not send answer in case of Holts errs.","Scope and Contents","Note for two pounds, twelve shillings, and eleven pence.","Caleb Johnston eight pounds.","Concerns Skipwith's court involvements with one Mr. Baird.","Informing him of the high water level of several ponds on his property. Including memo informing Sir Skipwith of the leveling off of the water near Robert Birchett's store, Sept. 26, 1794. Reverse, a listing of various salt orders placed by Sir. Peyton in 1793.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Consignment of wheat sent by Skipwith to Campbell of Petersburg. Campbell discusses both the fluctuating prices of wheat and tobacco, and suggets that Skipwith might find a more favorable market for tobacco abroad.","Skipwith's legal entanglements with V. Holloway.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Court litigation involving tobacco, between Skipwith and W. Barberville.","Shalor's inability to pay a debt owed Skipwith.","Tobacco and the disposal of promissory notes.","Skipwith's latest consignment of tobacco sent to England.","Notes concern various financial transanctions of Lady Jean Skipwith.","Skipwith's contract with Shalor for masonry work, and his desire to have said work suspended due to bad weather.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Impending suit against Sir. Peyton Skipwith by Colonel Harwood. including: \"Fishing Days Here Disposed of, 1795\" and \"A list of the small boys that will be able to real tobacco down in the fall 1795.\"","Scope and Contents","Debts due from Jacob Bugg, holder of bond from Skipwith. Mentions intended removal to Kentucky, desires to make contacts via Skipwith among friends.","Invoice of goods to be shipped from Liverpool, including a diamond for cutting glass, putty, window glass, and salt.","Court litigation instituted by Clinch against Skipwith in the High Court of Chancery on behalf of the Holt heirs.","Warns Skipwith of the impending difficulties in the court proceedings instituted against him by the Holt heirs of Surry County.","Job that Robson was not able to perform as expected.","The disputed title of a Negro purchased fom the sheriff of Lunenburg County by Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","As Skipwith's lawyer, Munford advised his client on actions that were to be taken in the \"Donald Affair\" in which Skipwith is defendant. Munford also advised Skipwith on matters pertaining to two other court cases involving Skipwith.","Transactions made through Mr. James Maury of London, for goods in exchange for tobacco crop.","Transactions made through Mr. James Maury of London, for goods in exchange for tobacco crop.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Notice of plan to take William Gray's disposition at Robert Armistead's Tavern, 1795 August 31, 1795.","Arrangements for the payment of taxes by Skipwith.","Notice of court proceeding against them. Concerns the confiscation of thirteen slaves from the Hardwood Estates for the nonpayment of bonds.","Scope and Contents","Court litigation between Sir Peyton Skipwith and Robert Birchett over wheat.","As the Skipwith London agent, Maury encourages Sir Peyton to abandon further shipment of tobacco to London \"earlier than the summer following its growth.\"","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Court litigation in which Skipwith was plaintiff.","Scope and Contents","Petition regarding their suit against John Martin involving a debt and the assignment of a bond of Sir Peyton Skipwith's.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Skipwith's ferry operated by Hopkins and the necessity of improving roads leading to and from said ferry.","Problem of shipping and receiving goods from England, especially tobacco.","Goods ordered by Lady Skipwith.","His suit against Peter Holloway.","Goods shipped from Liverpool for Sir Peyton Skipwith and placed under the care of Mr. McCallum, including a leaf table.","Used as miscellaneous note paper.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Payment of taxes in gold by Skipwith.","Skipwith's involvement in court litigation with Robert Birchett over a wheat contract. Skipwith wants to retain McCrocy as his lawyer.","Scope and Contents","States that Skipwith was to call witnesses to refute the previous testimony of Birchett.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Notice left at Robert Birchett's house on 16 Sept. 1796 by John Hill.","Receipt of payment for Baird Judgement.","Also contains a penned reply by Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County noting receipt of taxes.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Duties owed on goods delivered to Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Carleton's belated payment of debts to Skipwith.","Including reply by Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, noting recipt of taxes.","Mr. Carleton's repeated failure to pay a debt due in September and his desire to pay Skipwith in kind with horses and tobacco with an extension of the debt until December.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Business transactions between Peyton and Bell.","Scope and Contents","Bond for 181 pounds, 9 shillings, and 4 pence.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Payment of a bond.","Complaints by Skipwith over several grindstones purchased from Bell's brother.","Newspapers sent to Vaughan by Skipwith, and Skipwith's court litigation with Mssrs. Bugg and Birchett.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents Stone lime sent to Skipwith and the most recent tobacco prices.","Court litigations and the decrees of the court of appeals.","Letter of certification by John Holloway.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Land transaction, Singleton would like to pay with a horse.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Taxes due for previous year from various individuals, including William Davis, Sheriff of Mecklenburg.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Articles purchased by Skipwith, such as nails, hooks, springs, and hoes, including an itemized list.","Money owed Skipwith by Short and a request for Skipwith to procure \"about twenty likely negroes.\"","State of Skipwith's tobacco crop, and the prices it should fetch once on the market.","Enumerated list of Skipwith's taxes for 1797.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents Skipwith's account with them.","Scope and Contents Including receipt of payment.","Including receipt of payment.","Nathaniel Moss's receipt - October 9, 1797.","Business transaction.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Including receipt for payment.","Scope and Contents","Account of Benjamin Harrison for taxes for the year 1792 with the Sheriff of Mecklenburg County.","Scope and Contents","Map caption: \"On the first day of February began, and on the 15th compleated a Survey of the within Tract of Sir Peyton Skipwith's Land A.D. 1798. Laid down by a Scale of 80 poles to an Inch by John Hill.\"","Mr. Cunningham's transaction with Vaughan dealing with corn and its receipt and transportation, and other business.","Scope and Contents","Matters relating to Skipwith's court litigations with Robert Birchett ?","Skipwith's financial and legal transactions.","Scope and Contents","\"Bag of money\" left at Mr. Vaughan's by Skipwith's agent, John Hill.","Skipwith's request of a 20 pound loan.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Home remedy and treatment for yellow fever.","Materials sent to Lady Jean Skipwith.","Bond for two thousand five hundred pounds.","requesting the use of a horse.","Scope and Contents Concerning T. Burnett.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Skipwith's suit against King, Dinwiddie, Crawford, \u0026 Duncan.","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","Settling of accounts with Mr. Cunningham and Skipwith's future business.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Bell's handling of a shipment of Skipwith's tobacco destined for London. including invoice for 60 hogs heads of tobacco.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Including looking glasses and brass andirons.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Interests and payments on a bond. Also mention of Skipwith's trip to England for the coming summer.","Bennett advises Skipwith not to ship his tobacco from Edenton to Norfolk for shipment to England. Instead he wants the tobacco brought to Petersburg, and placed in his care.","Shipment of Skipwith's tobacco to England","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents Shipment of Skipwith's tobacco to England and some personal papers which Skipwith also wanted to send.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents Asking him to host Sir Peyton Skipwith during his stay in Norfolk.","Scope and Contents","Gracie agrees to dispose of Skipwith's bills on Messrs. Dawes \u0026 Stephenson \u0026 Co. of London.","Reporting sales of tobacco and accounts of land offered for sale.","1801 wheat market, esp. with the West Indies and abroad in Europe. Mentions Mr. Dawson, Tom Payne, Mr. Jefferson, in addition to a pending treaty between U.S. and ?. Also speaks of rumor that England and France had concluded peace.","Receipt to Alexander and James Fulton for Sir Peyton Skipwith, Esq.","Subject of court litigation between Skipwith and Samuel Bray of Hampshire County Ky.?","Skipwith's business with Messrs. Dawes, Stephenson \u0026 Co. of London. Also contains comment on a fever epidemic which had suspended business throughout New York City.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Requesting that they advance George Nicholas Skipwith $1,883.","Scope and Contents","Skipwith's request for $4800.00","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Invoice and receipt for goods purchased.","Fulwar Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Informs Skipwith of the dissolving of Dawes, Stephenson \u0026 Co.'s partnership with John Grayson, and Grayson's venture into business for himself.","Scope and Contents Seeks permission to carry a hogshead of tobacco across Skipwith's plantation to market.","Scope and Contents","Unknown writer's daughter Margaret.","Scope and Contents","Information relating to the dissolving of the business partnership of Dawes, Stephenson, Grayson \u0026 Co. Bennett informs Skipwith of his ship's departure for London via Falmouth.","State of England during the war with France, esp. in terms of their not being able to get American consignments of tobacco to England. Makes personal arrangement with Skipwith for the receipt of his crop.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents Skipwith's interests in purchasing mules.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Purchase of some slaves, and \"grazing\" as a business; describes the soil in his area, and his grasses it supports; comments on his method of crop rotation.","Lady Skipwith's order for music books. Also contains information on the prices for tobacco in Europe \"notwithstanding the blockade of the Elbe \u0026 other restrictions on commerce.\"","Nine hogsheads of tobacco being transported from Suffolk to Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","Direction along the main road to Richmond.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Skipwith's request in his market investments; also discusses the New York market for tobacco.","Informing Skipwith of his plans to charter an American ship for the customers of Grayson \u0026 Noble. Also requests that Skipwith send along 1 1/2 dozen of \"good bacon hams.\"","Requesting that Skipwith decide whether or not he wants to ship his tobacco to England aboard the ship Alexander at City Point Hopewell.","Giving additional information concerning the ship Alexander, such as freight rates for the transporting of Skipwith's tobacco.","Date of departure of a ship from City Point Hopewell for England.","Bennet's receipt in Petersburg of 14 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco for shipment to Messrs. Grayson \u0026 Noble, London.","Bennett's receipt of Skipwith's tobacco.","Sale of 4 hogsheads of Potson tobacco sent by Skipwith. Grayson complains of the inability to sell an additional 74 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco because of Skipwith's faulty methods of packing tobacco for shipment.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Suit against Dinwiddie Crawford \u0026 Co.","Scope and Contents .","Scope and Contents","Sale of 71 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco for Skipwith and their receipt of samples of Dumfries tobacco.","Goods ordered by Skipwith now arrived in Petersburg on board the Protectress.","Receipt and sale of four hogsheads of tobacco.","Availability of ships sailing to Liverpool able to carry Skipwith's tobacco.","Goods purchased by Skipwith and being forwarded to him in the care of Thomas Bennett of Petersburg.","Bills of loading for six hogsheads of tobacco shipped on the Good Intent for New York.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents Two bills for 200 pounds and 300 pounds that Skipwith had deposited with them. Also discussion on the London tobacco market and the necessity of Skipwith's shipping only that tobacco fit for \"home consumption.\"","Business transactions including the purchasing of cotton materials for Skipwith and the prices of tobacco on the Liverpool market.","Baskervill's use of one of Skipwith's servants to transport some articles.","Receipt of Skipwith's shipment of six hogsheads of tobacco.","Scope and Contents","Some bound volumes of music purchased by Lady Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Disposal of two bills of exchange drawn upon Messrs. Grayson \u0026 Noble of London by Sir Peyton Skipwith for 200 pounds a piece.","Their approval of transactions allowing James Maury of Liverpool to draw up the Skipwith account to cover purchases made in behalf of Sir Peyton. The high rate of insurance for shipping due to Spanish Privateers.","Order for books, including an itemized list.","Purchases made by Skipwith and the tobacco market in Liverpool; including invoice.","Transportation of Skipwith's tobacco crop to London.","Mare.","Goods purchased by Lady Skipwith, including shoemakers' pinchers and nippers, with an itemized list.","Goods purchased, including cloth.","Death of Sir Peyton Skipwith on October 11, 1805 and the death of his youngest son. Lady Skipwith as sole executor of her husband's Virginia estates asks Short to settle a court suit that had been pending between Short and Sir Peyton over some bonds of M. Fulwar Skipwith's.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Skipwith's decision to sell his tobacco within the United States.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","\"A tract of land near this place belonging to late Sir Peyton Skipwith.\"","Cask of nails purchased by Lady Skipwith, including invoice.","Lady Skipwith's payment for a cask of nails, including receipt.","Payment for cask of nails, mentions the receipt of \"a bad dollar,\" including receipt.","Balance of the account with the estate of the late Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Error in business transactions between Maury and Grayson \u0026 Noble of London involving the Skipwith account.","Sir Peyton Skipwith's will in relation to a disagreement with Mr. ? Skipwith, and legacies to other children; warns her not to wear herself out in worrying over money matters; mentions his wife and daughter?","Concerns Lady Skipwith's inquiries as to the balance of payment in the Skipwith account.","Disposal and sale of wheat received from Cunningham and Lady Skipwith.","Statement of expenses and receipt for the building of a mill on Cox Creek.","Bond for $525.00. Reverse: receipt for $500.00 paid by Lady Skipwith on December 28, 1808.","Bond for $525.00. Reverse: March 22, 1808. William Marshall, attorney for Francis Lockett assigns bond to Walter Alver, Orange Co., North Carolina.","Business transactions concerning a \"draft of the oven\" and a note for $134.25.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Order of books for Lady Skipwith, including an invoice.","Scope and Contents","Books ordered and paid for by Lady Skipwith including invoice and receipt.","Whether or not Cunningham wanted the timber on a tract of land that Williamson wants to cultivate.","Scope and Contents","Patterned material that Lady Skipwith ordered, but which could not be had. Potts sends substitution.","Merchantile company of Alexander and James Fulton of Petersburg, and the late Sir Peyton's heirs.","Former business transactions between Maitland and Christian, and Sir Peyton Skipwith, deceased.","Notice of payment for an order of grain. Also references to the shortage of fine salt.","Each bond for $525.00 and due at Christmas, 1807.","Commanding him to present a summons to Jean Skipwith to appear before Mecklenburg County Court for negligence as proprietress of a ferry across the Roanoke River.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Receipt of two pounds and eight shillings and also six dollars for one year's subscription to the Portfolio.","Business transactions between Lady Skipwith, George Nicholas Skipwith and Peyton Skipwith. Bell claims money cannot be paid until the repeal of the embargo law.","Request that Lady Skipwith supply him with enough grape seeds to get him in stock.","Bell expresses his regrets that he cannot, due to the embargo, follow Lady Skipwith's wishes concerning the payment of his tobacco bond. Also mentions, in margin, the total lack of cotton to be had from Charleston or St. Mary's.","Scope and Contents","Concerning the receipt of Lady Skipwith's wheat, and the shipment of a quantity of salt to Prestwould, including invoice.","Receipt of a shipment of wheat from Lady Skipwith and the sale of butter sent earlier.","Receipt of a quantity of wheat and butter sent to Petersburg for sale.","Scope and Contents","Lady Skipwith's pending orders for tea, almonds, raisins, and china.","Memo of Lady Skipwith's renting for one year the land of Abraham Lockett, orphan.","Promissory note for $15000","Obligation to Lady Skipwith for $50.00 unless they can settle disputed title of ownership of land (2 1/2 acres) sold to her.","Shipment of an order of \"cotton cards\" to Lady Skipwith.","Lady Skipwith's tobacco crop. Including receipt.","Promissory note for $100.00.","Receipt of two loads of wheat from Lady Skipwith. Including invoice of goods purchased by Lady Skipwith.","Lady Skipwith's wheat account. including receipt.","invoice of items purchased, including hinges, screws, and glue.","Receipt of Lady Skipwith's shipment of wheat.","Hick's recollections of Sir Peyton Skipwith's mill. Offers to send deposition to aid Lady Skipwith in her court suit with the Young family.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Memo of Lady Skipwith's transactions with Barns to rent a portion of Lockett's lands.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Divison of Sir Peyton Skipwith's estate (d. 1805) among his living relatives.","Cunningham's orders for sugar and cloth, and the change in previous prices.","Writer's travels on the lower peninsula, visiting friends and relatives. Comments on Williamsburg and Hampton, also life in naval Norfolk.","Scope and Contents","Guardian of Abraham Lockett. Memo of agreement to rent from Barnes a tract of land. Made by Cunningham in Lady Skipwith's behalf.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Balance due Rowley? Grymes from the estate of Lady Skipwith's late husband, Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Promissory note for $50.00.","Bill and invoice of books purchased.","Goods purchased for Lady Skipwith. Reverse: invoice of goods purchased.","Suit against Lady Skipwith as executrix of her late husband's estates by Dinwiddie, Crawford and Co. of Petersburg.","Scope and Contents","Correction of a billing mistake on some books ordered by Lady Skipwith.","Apperson's proposed trip to Richmond and his promise to transact some business concerning Lady Skipwith.","Price of bar iron ordered by Lady Skipwith, including invoice.","Work done for Skipwith by Ogle, thanking Skipwith for his recommendations to others of Ogle's work.","Business transaction with Lady Skipwith, including list of bank notes.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Bill for books.","Bill for two \"stock locks\" of $2.00.","Bill for $10.00.","Promissory note for $50.00","Scope and Contents","Lady Skipwith's book order and contains information concerning the types of books binding available.","Agreement for the rental of a tract of land for $25.00.","Invoice and bill with receipt for goods purchased, including muslin, binding, thimbles, pins, nutmeg, and rice.","Business transactions concerning the receipt and payment for bacon and hogs sent to Puryear.","Scope and Contents","Bill for lodging and other services.","Bill and receipt for purchase of \"3 spades.\"","Bill and receipt for goods purchased.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Receipt for $180.00 for building and setting up a wheat machine upon Lady Skipwith's estate.","Invoice and bill with receipt for 11 books purchased.","Bill and receipt for one piece of web.","Invoice and bill with receipt for goods purchased, including plows.","Invoice and bill with receipt for purchases, including cutting knives and a saw.","Bill and receipt for items purchased, including saws.","Bill and receipt for goods purchased, including muslin and chest locks.","Scope and Contents","Receipt for $150.00 yearly rent on lands of Abner Lockett.","Scope and Contents","Invoice and bill with receipt for purchases, including calico, buttons, thimble, and morocco shoes.","Shipment of goods from England to Lady Skipwith. Including, James Maury, Liverpool, to Lady Jean Skipwith, June 27, 1816. Also including, James Maury and Latham, Liverpool, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Sept. 5, 1816.","Invoice and bill for Lady Skipwith's purchase of carpeting.","Concerns books which correspondent is sending Lady Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","Receipt for the rent of land from Thomas Lockett's orphans.","Acting as trustee for William M. Puryear, Boyd informs Skipwith of the depositing of $424.00 in the exchange bank of Va which is to be credited to a bond due Skipwith from Puryear.","Scope and Contents","Invoice and bill for goods purchased.","Invoice and bill for books purchased.","Humberstone Skipwith's account current with his mother and Selina? Skipwith for drafts and cash advanced.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Bill for cotillion party.","Receipt for the rent of Abner Lockett's land for the year 1818.","Receipt for purchase of dimity and fringe.","Scope and Contents","Receipt for purchases at the carpet and linen warehouse.","Receipt for payment on the purchase of one sofa.","Receipt for items purchased, i.e., damask draperies and napkins.","Scope and Contents","Receipt for purchase of 21 yards of curtain dimity.","Receipt for purchase of 21 yards of furniture dimity.","Bill for various purchases of nails, hinges, hooks, and staples.","Receipt for planking and scathing purchased.","Payment for shipping of one pair of snuffers.","Received of Captain Ferguson on account of glass service sent Mr. Skipwith at Norfolk.","Books purchased--Bachelor and Married Man, Women are Pour-et-Contre, Hawthorn Cottage, and New Tales…","Receipt for purchase of a quantity of nails.","Scope and Contents","Promissory note, Including note of receipt of payment by David Scott, May 14, 1819. Also including note of Humberstone Skipwith paying Mrs. Nivison, July 10, 1819.","Wickham's advice to Skipwith that he not bring suit against John Bell for a bond for $569.64 which was overdue","Bill for mending plastering round the doors.","Bill of sale for tobacco.","Receipt for purchase of goods, including broad top chairs.","Receipt for 12 1/4 yards of furniture dimity purchased.","Bill of sale for flower pots, a brass bell pull, and copper wire.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Asks for financial aid.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Lawsuit of Skipwith and Murray.","Will pay $1000.00 for Col. Green at Mecklenburg Court.","Purchase of wool.","Mr. Baily taking his slaves away.","Concerning settlement in the case of Skipwith v. Murray.","Scope and Contents","Request for a loan of $3000.00.","Request for a loan of $2000.00.","Scope and Contents","Death of Sarah (Nivison) Skipwith and the \"prevailing Epidemick;\" and returning some books.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Information on the price of oil, also asks him to visit.","Information on prices of goods and statement of his account for sugar, coffee, and salt.","Scope and Contents","Request for more time to arrange paying off his debt to Boyd.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Statement of money and bonds given John Buford.","Legal notices which have been sent to parties in a lawsuit; will bring copies of the judgement.","Purchase of land in Norfolk by Skipwith.","Farmer will manage Skipwith's Norfolk property.","Request for Cunningham to accept drafts written by John Buford on him.","Arrangements for loan to John Buford.","Wheat prices and wine prices.","Sale of Mr. Boyd's flour.","Sale of Mr. Boyd's flour.","Denies that Lady Skipwith plans to help Mr. Ravesncroft.","Loan for his brother; explains why Col. Green wrote Lady Skipwith about Mr. Ravenscroft.","Will release his property if he pays his debt; if he pays the whole debt Lady Skipwith will make a loan to his brother.","Asks Cunningham to pay off some on Buford's debts.","Cameron is lending money to Buford.","Scope and Contents","Concerning notices delivered.","Account of sales of flour.","Wants to buy crops.","Wants tobacco crop sent to Richmond; price not settled.","Returns accounts with transfer from Lady Skipwith to Cunningham's account.","Will deliver goods bought.","Skipwith's lease to Lyon of proprerty in Norfolk.","Scope and Contents","Will try to sell Lady Skipwith's tobacco.","Hopes to provide good security for his debts.","Sale of Lady Skipwith's tobacco crop.","Had a safe journey; Cunningham in Petersburg may be in financial trouble; Mrs. Tazewell is sick because of birth of her child; asks H. S. to send Franky to help Mrs. Tazewell.","Drought killed his crop; asks for loan of $500.00.","Scope and Contents","Financial problems.","Will supply him with a sulky.","Scope and Contents","Note for $7500.","Scope and Contents","Attempts to settle his mother's estate's accounts.","Asks for loan of $3500.","Data on tobacco sales.","Sends items from their store.","Scope and Contents","Wants to purchase corn.","Scope and Contents","Sale of cotton.","Visited Baltimore; sympathy at death of her child.","Asks for Humberstone Skipwith's papers for lawsuit in New Orleans.","Scope and Contents","Lawsuit.","Glad his wife and child are now well.","Asks to borrow $1000.","Scope and Contents","Her health better; hopes to have another child.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Asks to borrow $5000.00.","Asks to borrow $4000.00.","Scope and Contents","Skipwith's tax problems.","Scope and Contents","Organization of The Exchange Bank of Va.","National economic difficulties and how they kept their business going; asks for his patronage.","Scope and Contents","Asks to borrow $4000.00.","Asks to borrow $30,000.00.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Liquidation of Tredegar Iron Works.","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","Family news.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Helen's husband detained in Washington.","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","County government.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents .","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Hopes to help him with his present troubles, i.e. bankruptcy and forced sale of his land.","Asks to buy his house.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Asks him to pay off his accounts.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Asks him to pay his bill.","Celia's divorce went through.","Virginia census of 1890.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Ferry","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","Postcard.","Correspondence and other material concerning the history of the Skipwith pianoforte and its acquisition and subsequent care and use by the College of William and Mary; includes 2 8\" x 10\" black and white photographs (P1 and P2) of the pianoforte, and xerox copies from the Broadwood Porters books, 16 July 1816, indicating the original sale and delivery of the pianoforte; printed auction catalogue, 1946, listing \"English Harpsichord (beautiful)\"; and the Silvery Jubilee Catalogue, 1969, of the Colt Clavier Collection. Also includes the 2003 Conservation Report of the pianoforte by John R. Watson and Louis Dolive of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. 48 items.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Includes one about a piano tuner from Cynthia Beverley (Tucker) Washington Coleman; and another from Lelia (Skipwith) Lee about their travels in Dresden and Berlin, Germany, and Paris, France.","Including a letter from \"cousin\" Mary Skipwith Roberts of New Orleans, a letter form Fulwar to his father, Humberstone Skipwith, and a memo on rebuilding the bridge across Bluestone Creek.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Mainly relating to farm and financial matters; including a letter from John W. Lewis on the estate of \"Major Nelson,\" and William B. R. on a mysterious door opening; financial matters of Lady Jean (Miller) Skipwith from William F. Wickham; and several from William Jeter and John B. Tunstall.","including a list of Negroes purchased at \"John? Bufords Sale,\" and an order for parts for a mill ?.","Scope and Contents","Including a letter to Sir Peyton Skipwith, one from Jean Feild inviting her to visit, a fragment of a poem in Lady Jean's handwriting, and an account.","Including letters from Peyton Short, Leila (Skipwith) Carter Tucker, Fulwar Skipwith (a cousin of Sir Peyton), and several from Richard Eggleston, as well as two letters from Sir Peyton to Lady Jean Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Items with no obvious Skipwith connection.","Items with no obvious Skipwith connection.","Items with no obvious Skipwith connection.","See also Medium Oversize File.","\"Rates of Transportation on the Petersburg, Va. Rail Road\" with extracts from an act of the General Assembly, 3 January 1833.","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","Scope and Contents","See Manuscripts Oversize Folder Map Case 40.6","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","See Manuscript Artifact Collection.","A visit; and letters of Claudia Stuart Coles to her uncle, Fulwar Skipwith, about a ferry.","Indexed.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Indexed.","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","Notebook No. 10 1873 was not with the collection when it was received.","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","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","(Note: Map transferred to Map Collection).","Scope and Contents","250 pounds sent to Gray and an additional 200 pounds sent to Gray to serve as an allowance while he studies at Cambridge. He does not wish for Gray to borrow against his Newbold estate to finance his living, noting the dangers of becoming indebted and the value of a debt free life.","Confirms the sending of 200 pounds and expresses hope that the financial arrangements he established for Gray will be sufficient. Expresses desire for Gray to pursue a profession reflective of Gray's standing in society. He further suggests that Gray should study law as it might prove useful in the future for helping the family recover their ancestral lands in Leicestershire.","Scope and Contents Mentions that Gray did not receive earlier letter so he repeats the news he enclosed in previous letter. Notes the disastrous crop season this year. States that the weavils ruined the wheat crop and the tobacco plants were ruined by violent rains. Because he was unable to reap a profit from crop sales he recalls financial loans given to Peyton Short and Francis Ruffin. Informs Grey of the birth of a son named Humberston. Also mentions that Grey's sister, Leila has recently married St. George Tucker and that Grey's youngest sister, Maria, has died.","Begins letter with a complaint of unpaid debts and the fact that Virginia courts favor debtors over lenders. Notes that as a result, he will have to cancel Gray's allowance until finances improve.","Notes continuing financial difficulties and his success at surmounting them. Sending a letter of conveyance from Sir Thomas Skipwith to Gray, expresses the importance of the land conveyance to avoid the land from falling into a distant branch of the family.","His approaching voyage to England and his poor health. Believes that the sight of his son will give him great pleasure. His current financial condition and the sale of useless lands in Kentucky. Letter mentions a visit from one of Gray's old friends, Mr. Grymes Jr. of Brandon in Middlesex.","Discusses a meeting with Mr. Grymes and Edmund Randolph in Richmond. Also notes the state of his finances and his success with his tobacco and wheat crops. Notes that he cancelled his trip to England because he had regained his health.","Visit of William Bell to London. He notes that Mr. Bell will deliver this letter to him and take any letters from Grey and expresses hope that all is well. Also requests that Gray obtain a complete set of Sir Peyton's account from Rowles and Grymes to aid him in a financial dispute with Phillip Grymes of Brandon, Virginia. Mentions a visit from Wyndham Randolph, nephew of Edmund, and Wyndham's sisters. Also notes the purchase of Occoneechee, an estate for his brother, Peyton Jr. Further mentions the current state of his own home, Prestwould. He notes with pride that he has the most beautiful home in Virginia and also breeds the best horses in Virginia.","Begins with him expressing disappointment over Gray not writing him more often and for neglecting to tell him about his marriage and the birth of his grandchild. Informs Grey that there is no reason for letters not to reach him because there is now a post office in Marthasville from which he can send letters. Boasts about his financial lifestyle and his happiness with his life in Virginia. notes that Gray's sister Leila's children by Robert Carter stand to inherit equally from the Cortoman estate. Also mentions Peyton Jr., trip to Georgia and his engagement to Cornelia Greene, daughter of General Nathaniel Greene.","His hopes that Gray's wife, Harriet, has a son and that Gray choose him as grandchild's godfather. Birth of George Skipwith to Peyton Jr. and his wife. Selina's continuing studies in Baltimore.","Informs Gray of Sir Peyton's death after a long illness. Discusses finances with Gray, noting their father's estate was quite large and unencumbered at his death.","Responds to Gray's letter discussing outstanding debts of Sir Peyton in London. Lady Skipwith candidly details her discovery of Sir Peyton's poor financial condition prior to their marriage and his later struggle to pay off his debts. She notes the difficulty of collecting debts in America and the amount of labor that it takes to run a successful tobacco farm. Agrees to pay English debt which Gray mentioned in an earlier letter but inquires whether it is the only debt outstanding.","Informs Guy of the death of his brother, Peyton Jr. In addition to details of Peyton's death, she discusses the health of her children and the birth of Peyton's last child, Catharine. Comments on the distance between herself and Grey and speculates that she will never see him. Informs him of Humberton's, his half-brother, success at Princeton and his half-sisters, Selena and Helena's blossoming beauy. Also mentions that family friends of hers saw him in London. Concludes with her strong desire to keep in touch with him and his family. She uses the spelling \"Grey\" instead of \"Gray.\"","Brochures about the Virginia Women in History Awards, an oversize certificate given in honor of Lady Jean Skipwith, and a speech given by Susan Riggs about Lady Jean Skipwith.","Includes a poem written by Gray Skipwith and a letter written to Gray Skipwith by an unknown author.  Mss. Acc. 2011.438.","Acc. 2011.591 transferred from College Papers a 2-page letter from Kate Skipwith with Vellum Card Trick note and letter from EG Swem explaining the note.","A portion of the library of Lady Jean Skipwith is in the Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","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","Skipwith Family","Skipwith, Fulwar, 1836-1900","Skipwith, Humberston, 1791-1863","Skipwith, Jean Miller, 1748-1826","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 Sk3","/repositories/2/resources/9004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Skipwith Family papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Skipwith Family papers"],"collection_ssim":["Skipwith Family papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775"],"geogname_ssim":["Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775"],"creator_ssm":["Skipwith Family","Skipwith, Fulwar, 1836-1900","Skipwith, Humberston, 1791-1863","Skipwith, Jean Miller, 1748-1826"],"creator_ssim":["Skipwith Family","Skipwith, Fulwar, 1836-1900","Skipwith, Humberston, 1791-1863","Skipwith, Jean Miller, 1748-1826"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Skipwith, Fulwar, 1836-1900","Skipwith, Humberston, 1791-1863","Skipwith, Jean Miller, 1748-1826"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Skipwith Family"],"creators_ssim":["Skipwith, Fulwar, 1836-1900","Skipwith, Humberston, 1791-1863","Skipwith, Jean Miller, 1748-1826","Skipwith Family"],"places_ssim":["Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775"],"access_terms_ssm":["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."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Donated to Special Collections Research Center in batches between 1947 and 1983 by Dr. and Mrs. John W. 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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."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSkipwith Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Skipwith Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eProcessed by Anne Lewis and Deborah W. Smith during 1977-1978.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information:"],"processinfo_tesim":["Processed by Anne Lewis and Deborah W. Smith during 1977-1978."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee also the manuscript volume of Peyton Horatio Skipwith, Jr.  (Mss. MsV Skipwith); Robert Skipwith Papers (Mss. 74s Sk3); Robert Skipwith Diaries (Mss. 65 Sk4).  A picture of the Skipwith Pianoforte is in the University Archives Photograph Collection (P2000.49).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e 2008.257 Lady Jean Skipwith Collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["See also the manuscript volume of Peyton Horatio Skipwith, Jr.  (Mss. MsV Skipwith); Robert Skipwith Papers (Mss. 74s Sk3); Robert Skipwith Diaries (Mss. 65 Sk4).  A picture of the Skipwith Pianoforte is in the University Archives Photograph Collection (P2000.49)."," 2008.257 Lady Jean Skipwith Collection."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains, business papers, correspondence, accounts and the farm notes of Sir Peyton Skipwith of Mecklenburg Co., Va., son Humberstone Skipwith and Humberstone Skipwith's wives and children, especially Fulwar Skipwith. Papers are primarily business in nature and reflect the management of \"Prestwould.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Papers also concern the development of Lady Skipwith's library, the education of Fulwar Skipwith and his brother Grey Skipwith. Manuscript volumes concern farm accounts, gardening, the study of French and Fulwar Skipwith's lists of books.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOversize Folder 1: Formerly Box VII, folder 5a oversize file: Feb 1, 1798 manuscript map entitled Sir Peyton Skipwith's land A.D. 1798, Joh Hill Cartographer.\nOBox XXI, Folder 33 medium oversize file, House Plans including photostat.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e Skipwith Family Papers in Swem Library's microform area, 14 reels, call number HD 1471 .U5 R43 ser. L part 3\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks, dated and undated. Boxes I-XX.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture for the sale of a slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of conveyance for 390 acres of land in Lunenburg County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of twelve pounds to Mr. Sterling Thonton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for five pounds, nineteen shillings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount for one pound, nineteen shillings, and eleven pence. Also some rough accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a large, bay horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDirections to pay Sterling Thornton five pounds, seven shillings, and four pence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture for the sale of slaves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for five pounds, ten shillings in payment for a pair of mill stones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of three pounds, twelve shillings which he is in need of. Letter was returned and endorsed by Harris as a receipt for the money, dated August 8, 1769.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDirections for the payment to Mr. James Yancey of eight pounds, seven shillings, and six pence. Letter endorsed on April 4, 1770 by James Yancey and returned as a receipt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for eleven pounds for two years of mill stones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory note for sixty-seven pounds, six shillings, and nine pence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for two pair of shoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for seventy pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for £200 for the building of three mills by September next.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of some money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of some bacon and other provisions. The people in Richmond are in great want.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for nine guineas. 2 pages. Autograph document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for eighty pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for £130,000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBreeding horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on land deed and a deed of trust for 12 Negroes from Sir Peyton? Skipwith to? Ferril and? Ferril to ? Moss, and ? Holmes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA blank indenture for payment of an unspecified account to Sir Peyton Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe mating of several mares with his horse, Black and All Black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for title to some lands in consideration of £300.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt two pounds, two shillings, and two pence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrice of some tobacco, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for £795, fifteen shillings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransportation of some oats.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInspection and sale of some tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInspection and sale of some tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for some bacon sold to Sir Peyton Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivery of 5000 pounds of tobacco to Mr. John C. Littlepage. Endorsed by J.C. Littlepage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBreeding some horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoes not intend to sell his mare.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for horse breeding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe purchase of some bacon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount with Sir Peyton Skipwith, Slott?, and Donaldson, and Henry Sandifer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivery of some bacon to Sir Peyton Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Bacon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLast delivery of some corn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSupply of some sugar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEntertaining expenses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConveying the Brunswick District Court order to pay some money and tobacco to David Apperson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of some tobacco. Confusion in Harwood's estate following the death of his father. A large sum of money \"for the purpose of raising a soldier.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEscape of a prisoner who has fled to the enemy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for a wardrobe chest and a case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarley. Is anxious to meet Sir Peyton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivery of sugar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSugar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for two hundred and five pounds, ten shillings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout Col. Eastleigh, Miss Skipwith, etc. \"This cursed invasion has thrown everything into confusion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for 160,000 pounds of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of a bond for a hundred and sixty thousand pounds of crop tobacco between Robert Tucker of Sussex County and William Burge of Prince George County and Sir Peyton Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of estate of Dr. John Ravenscroft, Cairnsmoore, Scotland, with Lillias (Miller) Ravenscroft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for £300.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotations of a lease by Sir Peyton Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious bills. receipts, etc. for spices, wine, and mutton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of their account for linens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of money with interest due since 1773.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProcurement of two ship's carpenters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of his account for salt. signed in Beall's behalf by B. Holmes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnded the bargain he made with Mr. Smith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests the return of his Negro Stewart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for 203 head of cattle delivered for the use of the French Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been ill, but will send him his money in a few days. Also the offer of an old dog - \"very slow,\" but \"is very true and good for a fox.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas spent all his available money in the purchase of a horse, but will pay him shortly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo cows which were left in her care. Both died, but she may keep the hides.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot attend his sale. Also requests payment for some bacon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImprisonment and sale of a person who was enslaved by Sir Peyton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey of land bought by Sir Peyton Skipwith from William Natchell, together with Armistead's fee for surveying the land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious bills, receipts, etc., for shingles, shoes, wool, and spices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of their joint bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffer to defend him in his suit against Mr. Hooper.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHealth of the recipient.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of thirty-five head of Sir Peyton's cattle, and recompense for looking after the remainder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisposal of some corn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for corn and meal. Hears news \"that there is a certain general peace--a happy event to us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout credit for £300.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFailure to pay for some salt. Threatens to take him to court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome corn and paints.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpare scythe stones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImpending case for the settlement of a deed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the payment of some bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForwarding of various letters and newspapers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for the sale of some lands and Negro slaves in part settlement of a previous bond for tobacco. Also part of a fuller bond, dated October 9, 1786 entered into between Robert Turnbull, Petersburg, and Robert Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco business. \"The great advances my late partnership is in for our friends abroad, has laid me under very great and disagreeable inconveniences.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious accounts, receipts, etc., for spices, shoe boots, buttons, and hinges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReestablishment of their correspondence, disrupted during \"the last unhappy war.\" Mr. Thomas Main will give further details in person.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs sending his partner and nephew, Mr. Main, to settle their account, a more expedient method of settling their claims than by the use of attorneys.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpening of correspondence with Messers. Berth and Sigrist, Amsterdam, for the consignment of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStray steer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder to pay the expenses of two witnesses testifying at the suit of James Hooper.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcquaints him of his arrival in America.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests the use of his surveying equipment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoney due to Sir Peyton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas inquired for reliable purchasers for his goods which many will fetch eighty guineas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to stay at Beauford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of some Negroes. All the three potential purchasers were of substance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hutchinson and Colonel Skirving would like to see him in person.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of exchange for some cattle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Campbell wishes to settle the matter in an English court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing himself on behalf of his firm Dawes, Stephenson, and Co., tobacco merchants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of their tobacco account. Hopes he will spare him any further trouble.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of his tobacco. Hopes to meet him before he returns to England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSecurity for some tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Ruffin's bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Ruffin's case to pay his bond. \"The most speedy and vigorous methods shall be pursued.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Fiveash's affair. Appended a statement of his account with Thomas Fiveash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum of a bargain entered into for some cattle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThread and butter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of Sir Peyton's account with the General Court for various suits, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTax account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnderstands he is a lenient creditor. Requests that he may pay part of the bond that he is security to for Robert Connell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffer to sell his land. Requests a quick determination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Mr. Nelson concerning the price of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for £1009..10..0.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotifying him of his appointment as Surveyor of the road in place of Thomas Vaughan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBankruptcy suit filed by Mr. Murray's executors. Major portion of his debt is Mr. Allen's rather than Sir Peyton's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of his work horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA blank summons to call a witness to testify on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith in his dispute with J. Harmanson?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of his taxes and other business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for a Negro he has had since August 1782.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs sorry but he has already sold the horse, but will try to procure him back. Thinks the horse is destined for New York. \"He is an excellent covering horse and well calculated to get colts for the turf.\" Remarks on the severity of the laws against racing in his state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of his tobacco sold in 1775. Is glad to hear he wishes to renew his correspondence with their firm. Will do everything to protct his interests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis letter came too late; had already sold the horse. However he expects to buy it back next season when he will have first preference. Further details about some of its colts - \"I veryyly believe him to be as pure a blooded horse as any in America or England.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation regarding some cattle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for one large packing trunk purchased of Edmund Wells, trunk and case maker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents The payment of one of his notes. Has sent Captain Matthew Gibb to see him and hopes he \"will consider the disadvantage I labour under by being so long kept out of the money.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDischarging his bond for a tract fo land he had bought of Mr. Machary?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot undertake to prosecute his case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Ingram is doing his best to replevy his debt to him, but his scheme to do so must, by law, be approved by Sir Peyton his creditor. Also, the sale of some Negroes will not be permitted except with his approval.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFreight to England. Will remain in America till next spring.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis dismissal as surveyor, but is wishing to survey their land as a private surveyor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis chartering of \"a fine British butt vessel\" to take his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill shortly be going to Richmond and desires to know what business, if any, he would like him to transact there for him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of some cattle. 1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMust delay his visit to Richmond to attend the court where Mrs. Humphries, wife of John Humphries, is to be examined for the murder of one of her negro girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests the use of a small lumber cart to take home a box of glass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of some cattle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis tobacco--no offers as yet. Mr. Main will obtain freight for the goods he has ordered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDispatch of his notes to Colonel Joseph Green of Wayne County, N. C. for the purchase of his cattle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis tobacco which is now on board a ship ready to sail.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for the sale of some land to Bigelow on the Roanoke River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey of some land and a court case pending.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement to serve as overseer at Bugs Farm or on one of his plantations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis progress at school in England. Describes a visit with Mayor Grymes to see the palace of Windsor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of various legal costs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCattle he expects for North Carolina.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs pleased to hear of his intention to deal in tobacco with his friends Messrs. Dawes, Stephenson and Co., London. Presents low price of tobacco and how prospects for the present growing crop are--\"which added to the restless and uneasy situation of the Northern and Eastern states will probably cause some amendment in the European market.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas plotted the mill pond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Just arrived in London; bad season for visiting the city, as all fashionable people have left for \"watering places;\" will leave in a day or two for the Hague, then for Paris by way of Flanders; Eng. in a state of chaos; Irish propositions uncertain; necessity of learning French to do business not only in France but everywhere on the continent; his son Gray should learn French, and Italian too perhaps; Jefferson, already a year in France, is obliged to speak much English, so his French does not improve; Col. David Humphries, legation secretary, the same; have tried harder than any American ever to learn French; has heard of his possible visit to Europe; hopes to see him; can send letters to Col. Forrest or Fulwar Skipwith; hopes he received papers left for him in Virginia; Hog Island gave concern, and hopes he got rid of it; his kind offer of assistance may be taken up, as have not heard from Mr. Benjamin Harrison, who agreed to handle affairs; ask for a letter of credit, to be used only in an emergency; has written in this vein before, but think letters miscarried; sends this through Col. Forrest and Fulwar Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs loading a ship for Bristol and reminds him of his promise to send twenty hogshead of tobacco ?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScantling and plank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods on board the ship Robert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of goods to him, including various types of seeds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for some prunes, raisins and currants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for puchase of some books including four volumes of Rabelais' books--\"very scare.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLoading of his tobacco on board the vessel Tweed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVerdict and judgement of the General Court in favor of Skipwith in his suit against Ferrell. Damages of one penny plus cost.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInjunction granted to Pineas Ingram staying the proceedings in his suit with Sir Peyton over the sale of some Negroes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs willing to sell his land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFifty-five pounds, Virginia money, received of Thomas Vaughan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges his letter of 10 October. He is now second boy at Mr. Cotton's school where Major Grymes proposes he stays until August when he can go to Eton. Has had a letter from Uncle Miller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills, etc. on John Hyndman and Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShoes, stockings, boots, salt, flour, spices, and bridles for horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of horses delivered to Sir Peyton Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of some money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo meet his commitments, he will sell some land, and hopes to be allowed to \"set up at your shop or mill.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been appointed by the Court as one of the gentlement to act as executor to an estate in which Hepburn has a third interest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffer of a horse for £45.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis business in court and various other business matters. 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisposal of a South Carolina Negro, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder to impound part of the estate of Robert Harrison in payment for debts owed to Thomas Vaughan; Harrison being absconded.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of 3000 lbs. of sugar on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Green will view the road next Thursday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIngram's tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForwarding of five grindstones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBreaking in of his horse to harness before his journey to Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollection of some apple and pear trees at Shrosburys.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regarding Colonel Green's report on the road.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany favors which he acknowledges he has done for him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are some for her brother, Hugh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for £12 and five barrels of Indian corn in payment for a dark bay horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWarrant in the case of Downes vs. Brown. The county of residence is left blank until it is found out \"where the (delinquent) does live.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills of loading for three hogs heads of his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of some money to Sir Peyton Skipwith and other financial business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeveral suits pending that day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for some rye grass seed. Also notice that the General Court is ready to take depositions in the recipients suit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the sale of twenty hogs heads of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSummoning of Sir Peyton Skipwith to appear as a witness on behalf of Hugh Miller in his suit with James Belsches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis invitation to settle in Liverpool where he will be pleased to settle tobacco or transact any other business for Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for seven shillings and six pence, and for fifteen shillings for seven tithes due in Surry County from Sir Peyton Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping costs to England. \"The late sales of tobacco in Britain are very far from being pleasant ones.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of goods shipped aboard the Helena by Hugh Miller, merchant. Insured to the value of £100 by Archibald Govan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOverpayment of tax by Sir Peyton Skipwith for the year 1783.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of eighteen barrels of Indian corn to Thomas Vaughan. Sale of the Indian corn by Francis Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the payment of the certificate tax.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDispatch of some of his tobacco on board their vessel. \"It is said that a difference in Insurance of from 2 to 5 Guineas is made between British and American bottoms.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis departure for England. Hopes he may see him there shortly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises him to make other arrangements for shipping his goods to England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBad weather and its interruption of various projects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs sorry his letter caused him so much distress, especially at the time of his illness. In his suit against Wills, he was awarded only £5 as against £50-60 which he ought to have received. Testimony of Collin Wills was that he struck his father with a sword. The jury was biased and he thought it best to let the matter alone rather than order a new trial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Brown's ticket.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of his debt. Had been made difficult by the \"blowing up\" of his mill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for payment for some linen and other household goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA suit; advises caution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProvision of shipping and freight rates for his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping of his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivery of some clover and grass seed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivery of turnip seeds, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Shipping and sale of his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFreight for his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping and insurance arrangements for his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSaddle for a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests twenty dollars to balance his tax account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of three hogsheads of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping some tobacco to Bristol.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of some lands in Lunenburg County belonging to Mr. Upshaw.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange of some grass seeds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers to act as overseer on Mr. Perier's plantation which he understands he intends to purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCure of his \"fellow Sam.\" Hopes he can perform a reasonable cure on his jaw.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFreight rates for tobacco on board the British vessel, Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of the judgement in the case of Downes vs. Mr. Brown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubpoena served on Mr. Miles \"who I have some reason to think will be a very beneficial witness in your favour.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests that he will not insist on payment of his debt until his crop is harvested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Business for the house of Dawes Stephenson, and Co., of London. There is a \"fine new British built vessel\" in the River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis \"agreeable passage\" back to England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLack of comments from him or Messers. Donaldson and Stotts regarding his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eState of twenty hogsheads of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eState of their accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco and other business. \"Our crop this year will be uncommonly short and I fear but undifferent in quality, owing to the wet weather.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes for not seeing him regarding the indents, but was detained by the ill health of his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of some oxen. Not possible for the moment, since he does nto care to be paid in paper money, the only currency at present available in Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas viewed the land belonging to Mr. Bigelow and values it at two hundred pounds, Va currency.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for the sale of twenty-one horses and colts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivery of some letters, and his readiness to see him the following morning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis bond for fifteen hundred pounds for lands on the Roanoke River, Warren County, N. C. , and also for some dwellings on the south side of Old Street, Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA bond for fifteen hundred pounds, Virginia currency, for the title of certain lands in Warren County, N. C. , and certain buildings and land in Petersburg,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill do all he can to raise the money and pay him that evening. Does not blame him. \"I acknowledge I have forfeited my trust.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis expectation of a meeting between them. Hopes to be able to set out soon for America.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSettlement of a bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of his account with Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis failure to see him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill be happy to see him when he comes down for the races.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for £1220-17 for the purchase of some lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice and statement of Sir Peyton's account with Panock, Nicolson, and Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Taylor has been so busy that he has not had time to write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConstruction of some ditches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt and settlement of some debts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpects soon to have a balance of £130 in favor of Messers. Pinnock and Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas measured the great ditch and finds it 2260 yards long. Also includes ? to ?. Regarding the purchase of some land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs making up a large shipment of tobacco with difficulty and would be glad to receive any tobacco collected on his account. Also includes George Craghead, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm. December 14, 1786. Explains why he has not yet collected any of his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Ballard, to Sir Peyton Skipwith. About the purchase of some tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of some money outstanding to him, which he does not like to press for but now needs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDebt to Colonel William Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScarcity of cash, the high discount on bills, and other business concerning the tobacco trade.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious bills and receipts for clothing items, including a cap, bonnet, velvet, silk, and buttons, furnishings, including a skillet, spoons, fans, and forks, salt, sewing tools, and a wagon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTestimony regarding his suit against Pines Ingram, William Smith, John Smith, Thomas Ingram, and John Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis suit against Mattart. Unlikely to obtain judgement within less than two years; \"The evil is in the law.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of the debt for the horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis brother Henry's estate and debts which he has now taken responsibility for.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSettlement of his debt. Begs him to give him till July and not seize his securities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUsefulness of his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of sundry goods shipped on board the Bridget.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco sales, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout the purchase of some land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllness of Mr. Archibald who on doctor's advice is returning to Europe. In the future, his business in America will be confined to the collection of debts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit against W. Pool. Has obtained a judgement against him, and also in his suit against John Cox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInability to see him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of some of Mr. Poole's property and the settlement of his debts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of their account for mustard, thread, buttons, stockinette, and silk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for thirty pounds for the construction of two chimneys and hearths.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrice of lime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of his tobacco. The proceeds to be entrusted to John R. Grymes who has the care and management of his son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of his on J. Hyndman \u0026amp; Co. which has been returned to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of tobacco sales from the ship Montgomery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo bonds which he took care of.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of some lime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDebt for £8-2-6. Also includes Alexander Boyd, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, June 9, 1787.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of men using the ferry and the sums due from them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLicense for a tavern and the purchase of some nails.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for some grass seed for his orchard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the sale of his tobacco received by George Edward Henderson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco business. Is sorry that any part of his conduct could have caused ill feeling between them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit by Skipwith against Royster. Also miscellaneous notes by Skipwith regarding some slaves and other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for settlement of debts owed to him by Jacob Mettart and James Swinton, of Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis recent illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of his tobacco sold in London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of his account for a wagon and slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRights and title to a bond. Also other jottings regarding business accounts, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAre sending him a hamper of London port wine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis attendance at the Court House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis borrowing money on his account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEarly delivery of some tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey of a plot of tobacco land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for the sale of some land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrice of tobacco in Petersburg, he requests to know.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSettlement of John Holt's estate and the provision of money for the education of his orphans--hopes he will befriend them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for various goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal provisions of an ejectment, \"an action, commonly used for the trying of titles, and recovery of lands, etc., illegally withheld from the right owner.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisposal of the Holt estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoney for the purchase of corn. Had prevented the suit brought by Murray's prosecutors against him from being heard this court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt matters. Advises him to discuss the suit against Billy Heale, because of the cost of witnesses, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, to Philip Moody. Bond for a hundred and twenty pounds, Virginia currency\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of his account since December 1785.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivery of some corn or money. \"I hope you will not fail to send me one or the other.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco bond. Is to deliver it up to Colonel Penn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSheep shearing and other farming matters. Has spoken to Major Boyce \"on account of your enormous tax in Surrey.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for thirty five pounds, ten shillings, the balance due on the purchase of two Negro slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivery of some iron and a pair of gloves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of his account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir lack of several of the articles he ordered, including a weeding hoe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for various goods, including a table cloth and drapes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of a packet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTax account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of his account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for forty seven pounds, fifteen shillings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for seven hundred pounds, seven shillings and eight pence. The bond endorsed on the back as having been discharged is signed, William Allen, 3 August 1789.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelivery of some goods, including some osnaburg fabric and nails, and the state of their account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for various goods, including thread, cloth, linen, buttons, buckles, and nails.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of some nails and buttons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco and the disposal of other goods of his.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Reverend Mr. John Scot and his desire \"to complete a union on which my future happiness so much and so immediately depends.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollection of some fees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for two hundred pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles requested by him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis marriage, legal difficulties, in the laws of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for some Negroes he made with Mr. Peyton? Short.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous bill receipts for slaves, clothing and spices, and other business documents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of some land on Butchers Creek. The plantation is in bad repair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDebt due to Colonel Edward Harwood, payment in money or tobacco as he pleases.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond of one hundred pounds for the delivery of four slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of some wine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSum of money due from him to the esate of Colonel William Harwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis illness since arriving in Louisville. \"Your land is started in a most growing part of the country...faster than any other part of Kentucky.\" High price of uncultivated land \"owing to the astonishing migration to the Western Country.\" General export of tobacco down the Mississippi.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for thirteen pounds, ten shillings, and nine pence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout some money due to his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonal matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout the purchase of some land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoctor Olwer; wishes he could help \"but we seem quite full of gentlemen of his profession in this part of the country.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresentation of some of hsi bills to Messers Stott and Donaldson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts their offer after school ends in April; mentions his mother's Lillias (Miller) Ravenscroft marriage to Mr. Patrick Steward in Scotland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of tobacco received and sold from on board the vessel Termagant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHop roots.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice for buttons, cambrick, flannel, pepper, ginger, mustard, nutmeg, cinnamon, raisins, and salt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of thirteen pounds to Mr. William Richards. Also includes Sir Peyton Skipwith, to Thomas Vaughan,, 1789 April 20\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSupply of various goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for two bonds on which he is bringing suits in the District Court of Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLease for his storehouse and lumber house at the ferry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of goods sent to him, including salt, wine, brass knobs, a hat, flannel, and diapers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for 5,692 lbs. of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of goods purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of some land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice for goods purchased, including wine and butter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNumber of his slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of their account for buttons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about her pregnancy; gives news of relatives and friends in Scotland; discusses mental attitudes toward the loss of a child; is preparing to give a speech at the College on August 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitle to a deed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice for goods purchased, including sugar and tea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods purchased, including nails, and the state of his account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of tobacco, and related business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of goods purchased by him, including putty, knives, chalk, and shoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of their account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir daughter Helen Skipwith, later Helen Coles and his need to attend to business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of the balance outstanding to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of his tobacco to London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePay the bearer of this letter, Mr. Allison, thirty shillings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement regarding the purchase of some land in Mecklenburg County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of a colt. Also included Colonel William Johnson to Sir Peyton Skipwith. Regrets that he has sold the animal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLewis Payne, an \"industrious young man.\" Also would he pay the two hundred pounds oustanding to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of some land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the sale of his tobacco received from on board the Lady St. John.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eState of his suit against Mr. Robinson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDawes, Stephenson, \u0026amp; Co., London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith. About the sale of his tobacco received from on board the Hartley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis decision to be of service to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgress of his two suits in the Petersburg district court. Also enclosed is a receipt for two bonds dated March 10, 1790.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMerchandise contracted for, being ready.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis title to some land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubpoenas for witnesses for his suits pending in the Brunswick district court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco sales and shipments, \"the markets in Europe are glutted with Tobaco...I think there must be a demand for France as soon as the Commotions have subsided.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for forty pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for one hundred and eighty pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe moving of rock from Mr. Ross's plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of his tobacco. \"Our house does not possess the talent of flattery.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of his property. Demands secure terms and no bad or defective title.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOutstanding taxes for 1783.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir tobacco account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFreight for his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe payment of his Revenue lent to Mr. Thomas Vaughan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for some corn, Brown writing on behalf of Stott \u0026amp; Donaldson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on the progress of the various tasks on the plantations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Major P.L. Gryms. Has not heard from Sir Peyton's son since March when he was in good health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for twenty-three pounds, four shillings and nine pence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe delivery of a carriage and horses. Will pay him in bank notes which \"pass as specie in every state in the Union,\" there being a shortage of specie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness and family matters. Is endeavoring \"to get several sums due from Colonel Washington and others.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill attend to his interests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for seventy pounds with Thomas Greenwood, guardian to the orphans of Robert Greenwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of Robert Atkinson for wagon freight.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of some money to Robert Birchett. Receipt for payment on the back, signed Robert Birchett, dated1792 September 27.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses some bills of exchange which are in litigation, and some land Skipwith inquired about.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of goods purchased, including linen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill and receipt of varous expenses and services rendered, including some wine and ale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Christmas box and other small matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe goods purchased by her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe payment of some money\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubpoenas and witnesses for his suits in the Brunswick District Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey and plan of some land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePort wine and Irish beef tongue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeclaration of his authority as a justice of the city of Charleston and a public notary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eState of his account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eState of his account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious business matters including his offer to purchase some land belonging to Mr. Price.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe sale of some land of Mr. Price in payment for taxes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDomestic matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement and receipt for the balance of his account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe disposal of some land in Kentucky belonging to the estate of John Hartwell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe best time to ship his tobacco. Some apprehension that the market \"will be glutted with stemmed Tob.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis lack of a cart and the delivery of some pork.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe disposal of some land in the district of Kentucky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA receipt for some money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill \u0026amp; receipt for bridge tolls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for some articles furnished for his daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis suits pending in the Brunswick district court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlank orders to summon a witness to testify on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith in his suit pending with the Executors for Edward Harward.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeveral small business matters. Also his pending trip to Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome Lusirn? Lucerne? seed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Ruffin's injunction to the suit brought against him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe delivery of a desk, shoes, and buckles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFreight on board a ship bound for London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bad condition of the road and the desirability of a bridge over the creek near his house. .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoney oustanding on his account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation on the power of an attorney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe construction of three stills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious business matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis consignment of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe mill stone business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudgement and execution for debt against him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe quantity of tobacco he wishes shipped.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangements for shipping his tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"Futility of the Deed\" granted for some land in Kentucky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning legal business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe construction of a mill; also the employment of \"Pling.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlank Order to summon a witness to attend the suit pending in the Brunswick district court between Sir Peyton Skipwith and the Executors for William Harwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious court and legal matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his ill health and doctor's remedies; Mrs. McMurdo expected to die after the premature birth of a daughter, and distrust of the \"Gentlemen accoucheurs\"; mentions defunct \"Jermyn Bakeres\" ?.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe inspection of his tobacco and other business matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of some cash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis account with Messrs. J. \u0026amp; A. Freeland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe payment of rent for the blacksmith's shop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis collection of books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublic auction of the Lawson Price estate (land), in Mecklenburg County. March 1794. Document concerns in the court case of James Belsches, Jr. U.S. \"Lawson price and Company\" brought before the Prince George County Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeal for the sale and possession of some land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills on Glasgow and London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA visit to his sister to get her to make a pair of overalls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of the sum obtained in his suit against the Nicholas's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for two hundred and sixty-two pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote on Captain Hay in favor of Mr. Baker which he wishes presented to Sir Peyton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis readiness to advocate his claim against H. Carlton. Explains the history of the suit which began over default on a bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe sale of his land in Halifax County .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe settlement of their account. \"the war with France makes it necessary to prefer an American bottom,\" if payment is to be made in produce.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis order for Imperial Tea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for a pair of shoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome property near Washington and also business matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe sale of his tobacco and the granting of credit thereon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis request for his horse to visit \"Uncle Greenwood.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe sale of his horse and the balance owing on the negro.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious court matters. Also his alarm at the price of tobacco and his intention to sow more wheat in the fall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTax returns on his still.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe purchase of a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe delivery of a letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends some \"Books of amusement or entertainment\"; mentions Mr. R his wife?; has heard nothing from Britain for a long time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe law concerning the possession of stills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness from his suit against Colonel William Harwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe payment of some money he owes him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious correspondence and other business matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for three hundred and seventy-five pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for one hundred and sixty-six pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious business matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis ague and fever; mentions his wife and Mr. Inge; the price of locally made goods is falling and the scarcity of money has affected the price of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt and other legal matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious business matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of Short to be his attorney to sell lands claimed by him in the state of Kentucky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe price of some pork.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Skipwith accounts; Sir Peyton's recent consignment of tobacco which did not get shipped to England; and a recent smallpox epidemic in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaury's receiving thirty-nine Hogs heads of Skipwith tobacco at what appeared to be an inconvenient time for market selling. Maury honors a draft of Skipwith for three hundred pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWonders why Skipwith did not send answer in case of Holts errs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote for two pounds, twelve shillings, and eleven pence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaleb Johnston eight pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns Skipwith's court involvements with one Mr. Baird.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforming him of the high water level of several ponds on his property. Including memo informing Sir Skipwith of the leveling off of the water near Robert Birchett's store, Sept. 26, 1794. Reverse, a listing of various salt orders placed by Sir. Peyton in 1793.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsignment of wheat sent by Skipwith to Campbell of Petersburg. Campbell discusses both the fluctuating prices of wheat and tobacco, and suggets that Skipwith might find a more favorable market for tobacco abroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's legal entanglements with V. Holloway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt litigation involving tobacco, between Skipwith and W. Barberville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShalor's inability to pay a debt owed Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco and the disposal of promissory notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's latest consignment of tobacco sent to England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes concern various financial transanctions of Lady Jean Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's contract with Shalor for masonry work, and his desire to have said work suspended due to bad weather.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImpending suit against Sir. Peyton Skipwith by Colonel Harwood. including: \"Fishing Days Here Disposed of, 1795\" and \"A list of the small boys that will be able to real tobacco down in the fall 1795.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDebts due from Jacob Bugg, holder of bond from Skipwith. Mentions intended removal to Kentucky, desires to make contacts via Skipwith among friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of goods to be shipped from Liverpool, including a diamond for cutting glass, putty, window glass, and salt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt litigation instituted by Clinch against Skipwith in the High Court of Chancery on behalf of the Holt heirs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWarns Skipwith of the impending difficulties in the court proceedings instituted against him by the Holt heirs of Surry County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob that Robson was not able to perform as expected.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe disputed title of a Negro purchased fom the sheriff of Lunenburg County by Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs Skipwith's lawyer, Munford advised his client on actions that were to be taken in the \"Donald Affair\" in which Skipwith is defendant. Munford also advised Skipwith on matters pertaining to two other court cases involving Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransactions made through Mr. James Maury of London, for goods in exchange for tobacco crop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransactions made through Mr. James Maury of London, for goods in exchange for tobacco crop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice of plan to take William Gray's disposition at Robert Armistead's Tavern, 1795 August 31, 1795.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangements for the payment of taxes by Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice of court proceeding against them. Concerns the confiscation of thirteen slaves from the Hardwood Estates for the nonpayment of bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt litigation between Sir Peyton Skipwith and Robert Birchett over wheat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs the Skipwith London agent, Maury encourages Sir Peyton to abandon further shipment of tobacco to London \"earlier than the summer following its growth.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt litigation in which Skipwith was plaintiff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetition regarding their suit against John Martin involving a debt and the assignment of a bond of Sir Peyton Skipwith's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's ferry operated by Hopkins and the necessity of improving roads leading to and from said ferry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblem of shipping and receiving goods from England, especially tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods ordered by Lady Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis suit against Peter Holloway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods shipped from Liverpool for Sir Peyton Skipwith and placed under the care of Mr. McCallum, including a leaf table.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUsed as miscellaneous note paper.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of taxes in gold by Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's involvement in court litigation with Robert Birchett over a wheat contract. Skipwith wants to retain McCrocy as his lawyer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStates that Skipwith was to call witnesses to refute the previous testimony of Birchett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice left at Robert Birchett's house on 16 Sept. 1796 by John Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of payment for Baird Judgement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso contains a penned reply by Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County noting receipt of taxes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuties owed on goods delivered to Sir Peyton Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarleton's belated payment of debts to Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding reply by Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, noting recipt of taxes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Carleton's repeated failure to pay a debt due in September and his desire to pay Skipwith in kind with horses and tobacco with an extension of the debt until December.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness transactions between Peyton and Bell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for 181 pounds, 9 shillings, and 4 pence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of a bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplaints by Skipwith over several grindstones purchased from Bell's brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers sent to Vaughan by Skipwith, and Skipwith's court litigation with Mssrs. Bugg and Birchett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Stone lime sent to Skipwith and the most recent tobacco prices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt litigations and the decrees of the court of appeals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of certification by John Holloway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand transaction, Singleton would like to pay with a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaxes due for previous year from various individuals, including William Davis, Sheriff of Mecklenburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles purchased by Skipwith, such as nails, hooks, springs, and hoes, including an itemized list.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoney owed Skipwith by Short and a request for Skipwith to procure \"about twenty likely negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eState of Skipwith's tobacco crop, and the prices it should fetch once on the market.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnumerated list of Skipwith's taxes for 1797.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Skipwith's account with them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Including receipt of payment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding receipt of payment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Moss's receipt - October 9, 1797.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness transaction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding receipt for payment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of Benjamin Harrison for taxes for the year 1792 with the Sheriff of Mecklenburg County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap caption: \"On the first day of February began, and on the 15th compleated a Survey of the within Tract of Sir Peyton Skipwith's Land A.D. 1798. Laid down by a Scale of 80 poles to an Inch by John Hill.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Cunningham's transaction with Vaughan dealing with corn and its receipt and transportation, and other business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMatters relating to Skipwith's court litigations with Robert Birchett ?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's financial and legal transactions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Bag of money\" left at Mr. Vaughan's by Skipwith's agent, John Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's request of a 20 pound loan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHome remedy and treatment for yellow fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials sent to Lady Jean Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for two thousand five hundred pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003erequesting the use of a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerning T. Burnett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's suit against King, Dinwiddie, Crawford, \u0026amp; Duncan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSettling of accounts with Mr. Cunningham and Skipwith's future business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBell's handling of a shipment of Skipwith's tobacco destined for London. including invoice for 60 hogs heads of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding looking glasses and brass andirons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInterests and payments on a bond. Also mention of Skipwith's trip to England for the coming summer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBennett advises Skipwith not to ship his tobacco from Edenton to Norfolk for shipment to England. Instead he wants the tobacco brought to Petersburg, and placed in his care.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of Skipwith's tobacco to England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Shipment of Skipwith's tobacco to England and some personal papers which Skipwith also wanted to send.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Asking him to host Sir Peyton Skipwith during his stay in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGracie agrees to dispose of Skipwith's bills on Messrs. Dawes \u0026amp; Stephenson \u0026amp; Co. of London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReporting sales of tobacco and accounts of land offered for sale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1801 wheat market, esp. with the West Indies and abroad in Europe. Mentions Mr. Dawson, Tom Payne, Mr. Jefferson, in addition to a pending treaty between U.S. and ?. Also speaks of rumor that England and France had concluded peace.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt to Alexander and James Fulton for Sir Peyton Skipwith, Esq.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubject of court litigation between Skipwith and Samuel Bray of Hampshire County Ky.?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's business with Messrs. Dawes, Stephenson \u0026amp; Co. of London. Also contains comment on a fever epidemic which had suspended business throughout New York City.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequesting that they advance George Nicholas Skipwith $1,883.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's request for $4800.00\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice and receipt for goods purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFulwar Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms Skipwith of the dissolving of Dawes, Stephenson \u0026amp; Co.'s partnership with John Grayson, and Grayson's venture into business for himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Seeks permission to carry a hogshead of tobacco across Skipwith's plantation to market.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnknown writer's daughter Margaret.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation relating to the dissolving of the business partnership of Dawes, Stephenson, Grayson \u0026amp; Co. Bennett informs Skipwith of his ship's departure for London via Falmouth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eState of England during the war with France, esp. in terms of their not being able to get American consignments of tobacco to England. Makes personal arrangement with Skipwith for the receipt of his crop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Skipwith's interests in purchasing mules.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of some slaves, and \"grazing\" as a business; describes the soil in his area, and his grasses it supports; comments on his method of crop rotation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLady Skipwith's order for music books. Also contains information on the prices for tobacco in Europe \"notwithstanding the blockade of the Elbe \u0026amp; other restrictions on commerce.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNine hogsheads of tobacco being transported from Suffolk to Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDirection along the main road to Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's request in his market investments; also discusses the New York market for tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforming Skipwith of his plans to charter an American ship for the customers of Grayson \u0026amp; Noble. Also requests that Skipwith send along 1 1/2 dozen of \"good bacon hams.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequesting that Skipwith decide whether or not he wants to ship his tobacco to England aboard the ship Alexander at City Point Hopewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGiving additional information concerning the ship Alexander, such as freight rates for the transporting of Skipwith's tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDate of departure of a ship from City Point Hopewell for England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBennet's receipt in Petersburg of 14 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco for shipment to Messrs. Grayson \u0026amp; Noble, London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBennett's receipt of Skipwith's tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of 4 hogsheads of Potson tobacco sent by Skipwith. Grayson complains of the inability to sell an additional 74 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco because of Skipwith's faulty methods of packing tobacco for shipment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit against Dinwiddie Crawford \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of 71 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco for Skipwith and their receipt of samples of Dumfries tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods ordered by Skipwith now arrived in Petersburg on board the Protectress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt and sale of four hogsheads of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAvailability of ships sailing to Liverpool able to carry Skipwith's tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods purchased by Skipwith and being forwarded to him in the care of Thomas Bennett of Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills of loading for six hogsheads of tobacco shipped on the Good Intent for New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Two bills for 200 pounds and 300 pounds that Skipwith had deposited with them. Also discussion on the London tobacco market and the necessity of Skipwith's shipping only that tobacco fit for \"home consumption.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness transactions including the purchasing of cotton materials for Skipwith and the prices of tobacco on the Liverpool market.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBaskervill's use of one of Skipwith's servants to transport some articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of Skipwith's shipment of six hogsheads of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome bound volumes of music purchased by Lady Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisposal of two bills of exchange drawn upon Messrs. Grayson \u0026amp; Noble of London by Sir Peyton Skipwith for 200 pounds a piece.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir approval of transactions allowing James Maury of Liverpool to draw up the Skipwith account to cover purchases made in behalf of Sir Peyton. The high rate of insurance for shipping due to Spanish Privateers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for books, including an itemized list.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchases made by Skipwith and the tobacco market in Liverpool; including invoice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransportation of Skipwith's tobacco crop to London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMare.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods purchased by Lady Skipwith, including shoemakers' pinchers and nippers, with an itemized list.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods purchased, including cloth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Sir Peyton Skipwith on October 11, 1805 and the death of his youngest son. Lady Skipwith as sole executor of her husband's Virginia estates asks Short to settle a court suit that had been pending between Short and Sir Peyton over some bonds of M. Fulwar Skipwith's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's decision to sell his tobacco within the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A tract of land near this place belonging to late Sir Peyton Skipwith.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCask of nails purchased by Lady Skipwith, including invoice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLady Skipwith's payment for a cask of nails, including receipt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for cask of nails, mentions the receipt of \"a bad dollar,\" including receipt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBalance of the account with the estate of the late Sir Peyton Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eError in business transactions between Maury and Grayson \u0026amp; Noble of London involving the Skipwith account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSir Peyton Skipwith's will in relation to a disagreement with Mr. ? Skipwith, and legacies to other children; warns her not to wear herself out in worrying over money matters; mentions his wife and daughter?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns Lady Skipwith's inquiries as to the balance of payment in the Skipwith account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDisposal and sale of wheat received from Cunningham and Lady Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of expenses and receipt for the building of a mill on Cox Creek.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for $525.00. Reverse: receipt for $500.00 paid by Lady Skipwith on December 28, 1808.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for $525.00. Reverse: March 22, 1808. William Marshall, attorney for Francis Lockett assigns bond to Walter Alver, Orange Co., North Carolina.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness transactions concerning a \"draft of the oven\" and a note for $134.25.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder of books for Lady Skipwith, including an invoice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks ordered and paid for by Lady Skipwith including invoice and receipt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhether or not Cunningham wanted the timber on a tract of land that Williamson wants to cultivate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatterned material that Lady Skipwith ordered, but which could not be had. Potts sends substitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMerchantile company of Alexander and James Fulton of Petersburg, and the late Sir Peyton's heirs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFormer business transactions between Maitland and Christian, and Sir Peyton Skipwith, deceased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice of payment for an order of grain. Also references to the shortage of fine salt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEach bond for $525.00 and due at Christmas, 1807.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommanding him to present a summons to Jean Skipwith to appear before Mecklenburg County Court for negligence as proprietress of a ferry across the Roanoke River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of two pounds and eight shillings and also six dollars for one year's subscription to the Portfolio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness transactions between Lady Skipwith, George Nicholas Skipwith and Peyton Skipwith. Bell claims money cannot be paid until the repeal of the embargo law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest that Lady Skipwith supply him with enough grape seeds to get him in stock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBell expresses his regrets that he cannot, due to the embargo, follow Lady Skipwith's wishes concerning the payment of his tobacco bond. Also mentions, in margin, the total lack of cotton to be had from Charleston or St. Mary's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the receipt of Lady Skipwith's wheat, and the shipment of a quantity of salt to Prestwould, including invoice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of a shipment of wheat from Lady Skipwith and the sale of butter sent earlier.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of a quantity of wheat and butter sent to Petersburg for sale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLady Skipwith's pending orders for tea, almonds, raisins, and china.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemo of Lady Skipwith's renting for one year the land of Abraham Lockett, orphan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory note for $15000\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eObligation to Lady Skipwith for $50.00 unless they can settle disputed title of ownership of land (2 1/2 acres) sold to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of an order of \"cotton cards\" to Lady Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLady Skipwith's tobacco crop. Including receipt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory note for $100.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of two loads of wheat from Lady Skipwith. Including invoice of goods purchased by Lady Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLady Skipwith's wheat account. including receipt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003einvoice of items purchased, including hinges, screws, and glue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of Lady Skipwith's shipment of wheat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHick's recollections of Sir Peyton Skipwith's mill. Offers to send deposition to aid Lady Skipwith in her court suit with the Young family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemo of Lady Skipwith's transactions with Barns to rent a portion of Lockett's lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDivison of Sir Peyton Skipwith's estate (d. 1805) among his living relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCunningham's orders for sugar and cloth, and the change in previous prices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWriter's travels on the lower peninsula, visiting friends and relatives. Comments on Williamsburg and Hampton, also life in naval Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGuardian of Abraham Lockett. Memo of agreement to rent from Barnes a tract of land. Made by Cunningham in Lady Skipwith's behalf.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBalance due Rowley? Grymes from the estate of Lady Skipwith's late husband, Sir Peyton Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory note for $50.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill and invoice of books purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods purchased for Lady Skipwith. Reverse: invoice of goods purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit against Lady Skipwith as executrix of her late husband's estates by Dinwiddie, Crawford and Co. of Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrection of a billing mistake on some books ordered by Lady Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApperson's proposed trip to Richmond and his promise to transact some business concerning Lady Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrice of bar iron ordered by Lady Skipwith, including invoice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWork done for Skipwith by Ogle, thanking Skipwith for his recommendations to others of Ogle's work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness transaction with Lady Skipwith, including list of bank notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for two \"stock locks\" of $2.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for $10.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory note for $50.00\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLady Skipwith's book order and contains information concerning the types of books binding available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement for the rental of a tract of land for $25.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice and bill with receipt for goods purchased, including muslin, binding, thimbles, pins, nutmeg, and rice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness transactions concerning the receipt and payment for bacon and hogs sent to Puryear.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for lodging and other services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill and receipt for purchase of \"3 spades.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill and receipt for goods purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $180.00 for building and setting up a wheat machine upon Lady Skipwith's estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice and bill with receipt for 11 books purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill and receipt for one piece of web.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice and bill with receipt for goods purchased, including plows.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice and bill with receipt for purchases, including cutting knives and a saw.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill and receipt for items purchased, including saws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill and receipt for goods purchased, including muslin and chest locks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $150.00 yearly rent on lands of Abner Lockett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice and bill with receipt for purchases, including calico, buttons, thimble, and morocco shoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of goods from England to Lady Skipwith. Including, James Maury, Liverpool, to Lady Jean Skipwith, June 27, 1816. Also including, James Maury and Latham, Liverpool, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Sept. 5, 1816.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice and bill for Lady Skipwith's purchase of carpeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns books which correspondent is sending Lady Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the rent of land from Thomas Lockett's orphans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eActing as trustee for William M. Puryear, Boyd informs Skipwith of the depositing of $424.00 in the exchange bank of Va which is to be credited to a bond due Skipwith from Puryear.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice and bill for goods purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice and bill for books purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHumberstone Skipwith's account current with his mother and Selina? Skipwith for drafts and cash advanced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for cotillion party.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the rent of Abner Lockett's land for the year 1818.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for purchase of dimity and fringe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for purchases at the carpet and linen warehouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for payment on the purchase of one sofa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for items purchased, i.e., damask draperies and napkins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for purchase of 21 yards of curtain dimity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for purchase of 21 yards of furniture dimity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for various purchases of nails, hinges, hooks, and staples.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for planking and scathing purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for shipping of one pair of snuffers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived of Captain Ferguson on account of glass service sent Mr. Skipwith at Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks purchased--Bachelor and Married Man, Women are Pour-et-Contre, Hawthorn Cottage, and New Tales…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for purchase of a quantity of nails.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory note, Including note of receipt of payment by David Scott, May 14, 1819. Also including note of Humberstone Skipwith paying Mrs. Nivison, July 10, 1819.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWickham's advice to Skipwith that he not bring suit against John Bell for a bond for $569.64 which was overdue\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for mending plastering round the doors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of sale for tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for purchase of goods, including broad top chairs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for 12 1/4 yards of furniture dimity purchased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of sale for flower pots, a brass bell pull, and copper wire.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for financial aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawsuit of Skipwith and Murray.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill pay $1000.00 for Col. Green at Mecklenburg Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of wool.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Baily taking his slaves away.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning settlement in the case of Skipwith v. Murray.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for a loan of $3000.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for a loan of $2000.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Sarah (Nivison) Skipwith and the \"prevailing Epidemick;\" and returning some books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation on the price of oil, also asks him to visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation on prices of goods and statement of his account for sugar, coffee, and salt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for more time to arrange paying off his debt to Boyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of money and bonds given John Buford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal notices which have been sent to parties in a lawsuit; will bring copies of the judgement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of land in Norfolk by Skipwith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarmer will manage Skipwith's Norfolk property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for Cunningham to accept drafts written by John Buford on him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangements for loan to John Buford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWheat prices and wine prices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Mr. Boyd's flour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Mr. Boyd's flour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDenies that Lady Skipwith plans to help Mr. Ravesncroft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLoan for his brother; explains why Col. Green wrote Lady Skipwith about Mr. Ravenscroft.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill release his property if he pays his debt; if he pays the whole debt Lady Skipwith will make a loan to his brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Cunningham to pay off some on Buford's debts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCameron is lending money to Buford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning notices delivered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of sales of flour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWants to buy crops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWants tobacco crop sent to Richmond; price not settled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturns accounts with transfer from Lady Skipwith to Cunningham's account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill deliver goods bought.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's lease to Lyon of proprerty in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill try to sell Lady Skipwith's tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes to provide good security for his debts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Lady Skipwith's tobacco crop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHad a safe journey; Cunningham in Petersburg may be in financial trouble; Mrs. Tazewell is sick because of birth of her child; asks H. S. to send Franky to help Mrs. Tazewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrought killed his crop; asks for loan of $500.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial problems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill supply him with a sulky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote for $7500.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttempts to settle his mother's estate's accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for loan of $3500.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eData on tobacco sales.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends items from their store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWants to purchase corn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of cotton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisited Baltimore; sympathy at death of her child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for Humberstone Skipwith's papers for lawsuit in New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawsuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad his wife and child are now well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks to borrow $1000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer health better; hopes to have another child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks to borrow $5000.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks to borrow $4000.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSkipwith's tax problems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrganization of The Exchange Bank of Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNational economic difficulties and how they kept their business going; asks for his patronage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks to borrow $4000.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks to borrow $30,000.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLiquidation of Tredegar Iron Works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and 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R. on a mysterious door opening; financial matters of Lady Jean (Miller) Skipwith from William F. Wickham; and several from William Jeter and John B. Tunstall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eincluding a list of Negroes purchased at \"John? 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He does not wish for Gray to borrow against his Newbold estate to finance his living, noting the dangers of becoming indebted and the value of a debt free life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConfirms the sending of 200 pounds and expresses hope that the financial arrangements he established for Gray will be sufficient. Expresses desire for Gray to pursue a profession reflective of Gray's standing in society. He further suggests that Gray should study law as it might prove useful in the future for helping the family recover their ancestral lands in Leicestershire.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions that Gray did not receive earlier letter so he repeats the news he enclosed in previous letter. Notes the disastrous crop season this year. States that the weavils ruined the wheat crop and the tobacco plants were ruined by violent rains. Because he was unable to reap a profit from crop sales he recalls financial loans given to Peyton Short and Francis Ruffin. Informs Grey of the birth of a son named Humberston. Also mentions that Grey's sister, Leila has recently married St. George Tucker and that Grey's youngest sister, Maria, has died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegins letter with a complaint of unpaid debts and the fact that Virginia courts favor debtors over lenders. Notes that as a result, he will have to cancel Gray's allowance until finances improve.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes continuing financial difficulties and his success at surmounting them. Sending a letter of conveyance from Sir Thomas Skipwith to Gray, expresses the importance of the land conveyance to avoid the land from falling into a distant branch of the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis approaching voyage to England and his poor health. Believes that the sight of his son will give him great pleasure. His current financial condition and the sale of useless lands in Kentucky. Letter mentions a visit from one of Gray's old friends, Mr. Grymes Jr. of Brandon in Middlesex.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses a meeting with Mr. Grymes and Edmund Randolph in Richmond. Also notes the state of his finances and his success with his tobacco and wheat crops. Notes that he cancelled his trip to England because he had regained his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisit of William Bell to London. He notes that Mr. Bell will deliver this letter to him and take any letters from Grey and expresses hope that all is well. Also requests that Gray obtain a complete set of Sir Peyton's account from Rowles and Grymes to aid him in a financial dispute with Phillip Grymes of Brandon, Virginia. Mentions a visit from Wyndham Randolph, nephew of Edmund, and Wyndham's sisters. Also notes the purchase of Occoneechee, an estate for his brother, Peyton Jr. Further mentions the current state of his own home, Prestwould. He notes with pride that he has the most beautiful home in Virginia and also breeds the best horses in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegins with him expressing disappointment over Gray not writing him more often and for neglecting to tell him about his marriage and the birth of his grandchild. Informs Grey that there is no reason for letters not to reach him because there is now a post office in Marthasville from which he can send letters. Boasts about his financial lifestyle and his happiness with his life in Virginia. notes that Gray's sister Leila's children by Robert Carter stand to inherit equally from the Cortoman estate. Also mentions Peyton Jr., trip to Georgia and his engagement to Cornelia Greene, daughter of General Nathaniel Greene.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis hopes that Gray's wife, Harriet, has a son and that Gray choose him as grandchild's godfather. Birth of George Skipwith to Peyton Jr. and his wife. Selina's continuing studies in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms Gray of Sir Peyton's death after a long illness. Discusses finances with Gray, noting their father's estate was quite large and unencumbered at his death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResponds to Gray's letter discussing outstanding debts of Sir Peyton in London. Lady Skipwith candidly details her discovery of Sir Peyton's poor financial condition prior to their marriage and his later struggle to pay off his debts. She notes the difficulty of collecting debts in America and the amount of labor that it takes to run a successful tobacco farm. Agrees to pay English debt which Gray mentioned in an earlier letter but inquires whether it is the only debt outstanding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms Guy of the death of his brother, Peyton Jr. In addition to details of Peyton's death, she discusses the health of her children and the birth of Peyton's last child, Catharine. 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Papers are primarily business in nature and reflect the management of \"Prestwould.\""," Papers also concern the development of Lady Skipwith's library, the education of Fulwar Skipwith and his brother Grey Skipwith. Manuscript volumes concern farm accounts, gardening, the study of French and Fulwar Skipwith's lists of books.","Oversize Folder 1: Formerly Box VII, folder 5a oversize file: Feb 1, 1798 manuscript map entitled Sir Peyton Skipwith's land A.D. 1798, Joh Hill Cartographer.\nOBox XXI, Folder 33 medium oversize file, House Plans including photostat."," Skipwith Family Papers in Swem Library's microform area, 14 reels, call number HD 1471 .U5 R43 ser. L part 3","Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks, dated and undated. Boxes I-XX.","Indenture for the sale of a slave.","Deed of conveyance for 390 acres of land in Lunenburg County","Payment of twelve pounds to Mr. Sterling Thonton","Receipt for five pounds, nineteen shillings.","Account for one pound, nineteen shillings, and eleven pence. Also some rough accounts.","Receipt for the sale of a large, bay horse.","Deed.","Directions to pay Sterling Thornton five pounds, seven shillings, and four pence.","Indenture for the sale of slaves","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Receipt for five pounds, ten shillings in payment for a pair of mill stones.","Payment of three pounds, twelve shillings which he is in need of. Letter was returned and endorsed by Harris as a receipt for the money, dated August 8, 1769.","Directions for the payment to Mr. James Yancey of eight pounds, seven shillings, and six pence. Letter endorsed on April 4, 1770 by James Yancey and returned as a receipt.","Receipt for eleven pounds for two years of mill stones.","Promissory note for sixty-seven pounds, six shillings, and nine pence.","Receipt for two pair of shoes.","Bond for seventy pounds.","About a horse.","Bond for £200 for the building of three mills by September next.","Payment of some money.","Scope and Contents","Sale of some bacon and other provisions. The people in Richmond are in great want.","Receipt for nine guineas. 2 pages. Autograph document.","Bond for eighty pounds.","Bond for £130,000.","Breeding horses.","Notes on land deed and a deed of trust for 12 Negroes from Sir Peyton? Skipwith to? Ferril and? Ferril to ? Moss, and ? Holmes.","A blank indenture for payment of an unspecified account to Sir Peyton Skipwith.","The mating of several mares with his horse, Black and All Black.","Deed for title to some lands in consideration of £300.","Receipt two pounds, two shillings, and two pence.","Price of some tobacco, etc.","Bill for £795, fifteen shillings.","Transportation of some oats.","Barley.","Inspection and sale of some tobacco.","Inspection and sale of some tobacco.","Payment for some bacon sold to Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Delivery of 5000 pounds of tobacco to Mr. John C. Littlepage. Endorsed by J.C. Littlepage.","Breeding some horses.","Does not intend to sell his mare.","Payment for horse breeding.","The purchase of some bacon.","Account with Sir Peyton Skipwith, Slott?, and Donaldson, and Henry Sandifer.","Delivery of some bacon to Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Scope and Contents Bacon.","Last delivery of some corn.","Supply of some sugar.","Tobacco.","Entertaining expenses.","Conveying the Brunswick District Court order to pay some money and tobacco to David Apperson.","Sale of some tobacco. Confusion in Harwood's estate following the death of his father. A large sum of money \"for the purpose of raising a soldier.\"","Escape of a prisoner who has fled to the enemy.","Bill for a wardrobe chest and a case.","Barley. Is anxious to meet Sir Peyton.","Delivery of sugar.","Sugar.","Receipt for two hundred and five pounds, ten shillings.","About Col. Eastleigh, Miss Skipwith, etc. \"This cursed invasion has thrown everything into confusion.\"","Bond for 160,000 pounds of tobacco.","Copy of a bond for a hundred and sixty thousand pounds of crop tobacco between Robert Tucker of Sussex County and William Burge of Prince George County and Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Receipt.","Account of estate of Dr. John Ravenscroft, Cairnsmoore, Scotland, with Lillias (Miller) Ravenscroft.","Bond for £300.","Notations of a lease by Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Various bills. receipts, etc. for spices, wine, and mutton.","Statement of their account for linens.","Payment of money with interest due since 1773.","Procurement of two ship's carpenters.","Statement of his account for salt. signed in Beall's behalf by B. Holmes.","Ended the bargain he made with Mr. Smith.","Requests the return of his Negro Stewart.","Payment for 203 head of cattle delivered for the use of the French Army.","Has been ill, but will send him his money in a few days. Also the offer of an old dog - \"very slow,\" but \"is very true and good for a fox.\"","Has spent all his available money in the purchase of a horse, but will pay him shortly.","Two cows which were left in her care. Both died, but she may keep the hides.","Cannot attend his sale. Also requests payment for some bacon","Imprisonment and sale of a person who was enslaved by Sir Peyton.","Survey of land bought by Sir Peyton Skipwith from William Natchell, together with Armistead's fee for surveying the land.","Various bills, receipts, etc., for shingles, shoes, wool, and spices.","Payment of their joint bond.","Offer to defend him in his suit against Mr. Hooper.","Health of the recipient.","Death of thirty-five head of Sir Peyton's cattle, and recompense for looking after the remainder.","Disposal of some corn.","Order for corn and meal. Hears news \"that there is a certain general peace--a happy event to us.\"","About credit for £300.","Failure to pay for some salt. Threatens to take him to court.","Some corn and paints.","Spare scythe stones.","Contract.","Impending case for the settlement of a deed.","Receipt for the payment of some bonds.","Forwarding of various letters and newspapers.","Bond for the sale of some lands and Negro slaves in part settlement of a previous bond for tobacco. Also part of a fuller bond, dated October 9, 1786 entered into between Robert Turnbull, Petersburg, and Robert Tucker.","Tobacco business. \"The great advances my late partnership is in for our friends abroad, has laid me under very great and disagreeable inconveniences.\"","Various accounts, receipts, etc., for spices, shoe boots, buttons, and hinges.","Reestablishment of their correspondence, disrupted during \"the last unhappy war.\" Mr. Thomas Main will give further details in person.","Is sending his partner and nephew, Mr. Main, to settle their account, a more expedient method of settling their claims than by the use of attorneys.","Opening of correspondence with Messers. Berth and Sigrist, Amsterdam, for the consignment of tobacco.","Stray steer.","Order to pay the expenses of two witnesses testifying at the suit of James Hooper.","Tobacco.","Acquaints him of his arrival in America.","Requests the use of his surveying equipment.","Money due to Sir Peyton.","Has inquired for reliable purchasers for his goods which many will fetch eighty guineas.","Invitation to stay at Beauford.","Sale of some Negroes. All the three potential purchasers were of substance.","Mr. Hutchinson and Colonel Skirving would like to see him in person.","Bill of exchange for some cattle.","Mr. Campbell wishes to settle the matter in an English court.","Introducing himself on behalf of his firm Dawes, Stephenson, and Co., tobacco merchants.","Payment of their tobacco account. Hopes he will spare him any further trouble.","Sale of his tobacco. Hopes to meet him before he returns to England.","Security for some tobacco.","Business matters.","Mr. Ruffin's bond.","Mr. Ruffin's case to pay his bond. \"The most speedy and vigorous methods shall be pursued.\"","Mr. Fiveash's affair. Appended a statement of his account with Thomas Fiveash.","Memorandum of a bargain entered into for some cattle.","Thread and butter","Statement of Sir Peyton's account with the General Court for various suits, etc.","Tax account.","Understands he is a lenient creditor. Requests that he may pay part of the bond that he is security to for Robert Connell.","Offer to sell his land. Requests a quick determination.","Letter from Mr. Nelson concerning the price of tobacco.","Receipt for £1009..10..0.","Notifying him of his appointment as Surveyor of the road in place of Thomas Vaughan.","Bankruptcy suit filed by Mr. Murray's executors. Major portion of his debt is Mr. Allen's rather than Sir Peyton's.","Purchase of his work horse.","A blank summons to call a witness to testify on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith in his dispute with J. Harmanson?","Payment of his taxes and other business.","Payment for a Negro he has had since August 1782.","Is sorry but he has already sold the horse, but will try to procure him back. Thinks the horse is destined for New York. \"He is an excellent covering horse and well calculated to get colts for the turf.\" Remarks on the severity of the laws against racing in his state.","Some of his tobacco sold in 1775. Is glad to hear he wishes to renew his correspondence with their firm. Will do everything to protct his interests.","His letter came too late; had already sold the horse. However he expects to buy it back next season when he will have first preference. Further details about some of its colts - \"I veryyly believe him to be as pure a blooded horse as any in America or England.\"","Information regarding some cattle.","Receipt for one large packing trunk purchased of Edmund Wells, trunk and case maker.","Scope and Contents The payment of one of his notes. Has sent Captain Matthew Gibb to see him and hopes he \"will consider the disadvantage I labour under by being so long kept out of the money.\"","Discharging his bond for a tract fo land he had bought of Mr. Machary?","Cannot undertake to prosecute his case.","Mr. Ingram is doing his best to replevy his debt to him, but his scheme to do so must, by law, be approved by Sir Peyton his creditor. Also, the sale of some Negroes will not be permitted except with his approval.","Freight to England. Will remain in America till next spring.","His dismissal as surveyor, but is wishing to survey their land as a private surveyor.","His chartering of \"a fine British butt vessel\" to take his tobacco.","Will shortly be going to Richmond and desires to know what business, if any, he would like him to transact there for him.","Purchase of some cattle. 1 page. Autograph letter signed.","Must delay his visit to Richmond to attend the court where Mrs. Humphries, wife of John Humphries, is to be examined for the murder of one of her negro girls.","Requests the use of a small lumber cart to take home a box of glass.","Purchase of some cattle.","Shipment of his tobacco.","His tobacco--no offers as yet. Mr. Main will obtain freight for the goods he has ordered.","Dispatch of his notes to Colonel Joseph Green of Wayne County, N. C. for the purchase of his cattle.","His tobacco which is now on board a ship ready to sail.","Deed for the sale of some land to Bigelow on the Roanoke River.","Survey of some land and a court case pending.","Agreement to serve as overseer at Bugs Farm or on one of his plantations.","His progress at school in England. Describes a visit with Mayor Grymes to see the palace of Windsor.","Account of various legal costs.","Cattle he expects for North Carolina.","Is pleased to hear of his intention to deal in tobacco with his friends Messrs. Dawes, Stephenson and Co., London. Presents low price of tobacco and how prospects for the present growing crop are--\"which added to the restless and uneasy situation of the Northern and Eastern states will probably cause some amendment in the European market.\"","Has plotted the mill pond.","Scope and Contents Just arrived in London; bad season for visiting the city, as all fashionable people have left for \"watering places;\" will leave in a day or two for the Hague, then for Paris by way of Flanders; Eng. in a state of chaos; Irish propositions uncertain; necessity of learning French to do business not only in France but everywhere on the continent; his son Gray should learn French, and Italian too perhaps; Jefferson, already a year in France, is obliged to speak much English, so his French does not improve; Col. David Humphries, legation secretary, the same; have tried harder than any American ever to learn French; has heard of his possible visit to Europe; hopes to see him; can send letters to Col. Forrest or Fulwar Skipwith; hopes he received papers left for him in Virginia; Hog Island gave concern, and hopes he got rid of it; his kind offer of assistance may be taken up, as have not heard from Mr. Benjamin Harrison, who agreed to handle affairs; ask for a letter of credit, to be used only in an emergency; has written in this vein before, but think letters miscarried; sends this through Col. Forrest and Fulwar Skipwith.","Is loading a ship for Bristol and reminds him of his promise to send twenty hogshead of tobacco ?","Business matters.","Scantling and plank.","Goods on board the ship Robert.","Shipment of goods to him, including various types of seeds.","Order for some prunes, raisins and currants.","Prices of tobacco.","Receipt for puchase of some books including four volumes of Rabelais' books--\"very scare.\"","Loading of his tobacco on board the vessel Tweed.","Verdict and judgement of the General Court in favor of Skipwith in his suit against Ferrell. Damages of one penny plus cost.","Injunction granted to Pineas Ingram staying the proceedings in his suit with Sir Peyton over the sale of some Negroes.","Is willing to sell his land.","Fifty-five pounds, Virginia money, received of Thomas Vaughan.","Acknowledges his letter of 10 October. He is now second boy at Mr. Cotton's school where Major Grymes proposes he stays until August when he can go to Eton. Has had a letter from Uncle Miller.","Financial matters.","Bills, etc. on John Hyndman and Co.","Shoes, stockings, boots, salt, flour, spices, and bridles for horses.","List of horses delivered to Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Receipt of some money.","To meet his commitments, he will sell some land, and hopes to be allowed to \"set up at your shop or mill.\"","Has been appointed by the Court as one of the gentlement to act as executor to an estate in which Hepburn has a third interest.","Offer of a horse for £45.","His business in court and various other business matters. 2 pages.","Disposal of a South Carolina Negro, etc.","Order to impound part of the estate of Robert Harrison in payment for debts owed to Thomas Vaughan; Harrison being absconded.","Sale of 3000 lbs. of sugar on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Colonel Green will view the road next Thursday.","Ingram's tobacco.","Forwarding of five grindstones.","Breaking in of his horse to harness before his journey to Richmond.","Collection of some apple and pear trees at Shrosburys.","Letter regarding Colonel Green's report on the road.","Many favors which he acknowledges he has done for him.","Included are some for her brother, Hugh.","Receipt for £12 and five barrels of Indian corn in payment for a dark bay horse.","Warrant in the case of Downes vs. Brown. The county of residence is left blank until it is found out \"where the (delinquent) does live.\"","Bills of loading for three hogs heads of his tobacco.","Payment of some money to Sir Peyton Skipwith and other financial business.","Several suits pending that day.","Scope and Contents","Request for some rye grass seed. Also notice that the General Court is ready to take depositions in the recipients suit.","Account of the sale of twenty hogs heads of tobacco.","Summoning of Sir Peyton Skipwith to appear as a witness on behalf of Hugh Miller in his suit with James Belsches.","His invitation to settle in Liverpool where he will be pleased to settle tobacco or transact any other business for Skipwith.","Legal matters.","Receipt for seven shillings and six pence, and for fifteen shillings for seven tithes due in Surry County from Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Shipping costs to England. \"The late sales of tobacco in Britain are very far from being pleasant ones.\"","Invoice of goods shipped aboard the Helena by Hugh Miller, merchant. Insured to the value of £100 by Archibald Govan.","Overpayment of tax by Sir Peyton Skipwith for the year 1783.","Scope and Contents","Sale of his tobacco.","Sale of eighteen barrels of Indian corn to Thomas Vaughan. Sale of the Indian corn by Francis Lewis.","Receipt for the payment of the certificate tax.","Dispatch of some of his tobacco on board their vessel. \"It is said that a difference in Insurance of from 2 to 5 Guineas is made between British and American bottoms.\"","His departure for England. Hopes he may see him there shortly.","Advises him to make other arrangements for shipping his goods to England.","Bad weather and its interruption of various projects.","Is sorry his letter caused him so much distress, especially at the time of his illness. In his suit against Wills, he was awarded only £5 as against £50-60 which he ought to have received. Testimony of Collin Wills was that he struck his father with a sword. The jury was biased and he thought it best to let the matter alone rather than order a new trial.","Mr. Brown's ticket.","Payment of his debt. Had been made difficult by the \"blowing up\" of his mill.","Scope and Contents","Receipt for payment for some linen and other household goods.","A suit; advises caution.","Provision of shipping and freight rates for his tobacco.","Shipping of his tobacco.","Delivery of some clover and grass seed.","Delivery of turnip seeds, etc.","Scope and Contents Shipping and sale of his tobacco.","Freight for his tobacco.","Scope and Contents","Shipping and insurance arrangements for his tobacco.","Saddle for a horse.","Requests twenty dollars to balance his tax account.","Sale of three hogsheads of tobacco.","Shipping some tobacco to Bristol.","Sale of some lands in Lunenburg County belonging to Mr. Upshaw.","Exchange of some grass seeds.","Offers to act as overseer on Mr. Perier's plantation which he understands he intends to purchase.","Cure of his \"fellow Sam.\" Hopes he can perform a reasonable cure on his jaw.","Freight rates for tobacco on board the British vessel, Mary.","Copy of the judgement in the case of Downes vs. Mr. Brown","Subpoena served on Mr. Miles \"who I have some reason to think will be a very beneficial witness in your favour.\"","Requests that he will not insist on payment of his debt until his crop is harvested.","Scope and Contents Business for the house of Dawes Stephenson, and Co., of London. There is a \"fine new British built vessel\" in the River.","His \"agreeable passage\" back to England.","Lack of comments from him or Messers. Donaldson and Stotts regarding his tobacco.","State of twenty hogsheads of tobacco.","State of their accounts.","Tobacco and other business. \"Our crop this year will be uncommonly short and I fear but undifferent in quality, owing to the wet weather.\"","Apologizes for not seeing him regarding the indents, but was detained by the ill health of his family.","Shipment of his tobacco.","Sale of some oxen. Not possible for the moment, since he does nto care to be paid in paper money, the only currency at present available in Va.","Has viewed the land belonging to Mr. Bigelow and values it at two hundred pounds, Va currency.","Bill for the sale of twenty-one horses and colts.","Delivery of some letters, and his readiness to see him the following morning.","His bond for fifteen hundred pounds for lands on the Roanoke River, Warren County, N. C. , and also for some dwellings on the south side of Old Street, Petersburg.","A bond for fifteen hundred pounds, Virginia currency, for the title of certain lands in Warren County, N. C. , and certain buildings and land in Petersburg,","Will do all he can to raise the money and pay him that evening. Does not blame him. \"I acknowledge I have forfeited my trust.\"","His expectation of a meeting between them. Hopes to be able to set out soon for America.","Settlement of a bond.","Payment of his account with Skipwith.","His failure to see him.","Will be happy to see him when he comes down for the races.","Bond for £1220-17 for the purchase of some lands.","Invoice and statement of Sir Peyton's account with Panock, Nicolson, and Skipwith.","Mr. Taylor has been so busy that he has not had time to write.","Construction of some ditches.","Receipt and settlement of some debts.","Expects soon to have a balance of £130 in favor of Messers. Pinnock and Skipwith.","Has measured the great ditch and finds it 2260 yards long. Also includes ? to ?. Regarding the purchase of some land.","Is making up a large shipment of tobacco with difficulty and would be glad to receive any tobacco collected on his account. Also includes George Craghead, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm. December 14, 1786. Explains why he has not yet collected any of his tobacco.","John Ballard, to Sir Peyton Skipwith. About the purchase of some tobacco.","Payment of some money outstanding to him, which he does not like to press for but now needs.","Debt to Colonel William Randolph.","Scarcity of cash, the high discount on bills, and other business concerning the tobacco trade.","Various bills and receipts for clothing items, including a cap, bonnet, velvet, silk, and buttons, furnishings, including a skillet, spoons, fans, and forks, salt, sewing tools, and a wagon.","Scope and Contents","Testimony regarding his suit against Pines Ingram, William Smith, John Smith, Thomas Ingram, and John Ingram.","His suit against Mattart. Unlikely to obtain judgement within less than two years; \"The evil is in the law.\"","Payment of the debt for the horse.","His brother Henry's estate and debts which he has now taken responsibility for.","Settlement of his debt. Begs him to give him till July and not seize his securities.","Usefulness of his tobacco.","Invoice of sundry goods shipped on board the Bridget.","Tobacco sales, etc.","About the purchase of some land.","Illness of Mr. Archibald who on doctor's advice is returning to Europe. In the future, his business in America will be confined to the collection of debts.","Suit against W. Pool. Has obtained a judgement against him, and also in his suit against John Cox.","Inability to see him.","Sale of some of Mr. Poole's property and the settlement of his debts.","Statement of their account for mustard, thread, buttons, stockinette, and silk.","Bond for thirty pounds for the construction of two chimneys and hearths.","Price of lime.","Sale of his tobacco. The proceeds to be entrusted to John R. Grymes who has the care and management of his son.","Bill of his on J. Hyndman \u0026 Co. which has been returned to him.","Invoice of tobacco sales from the ship Montgomery.","Two bonds which he took care of.","Sale of some lime.","Debt for £8-2-6. Also includes Alexander Boyd, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, June 9, 1787.","A list of men using the ferry and the sums due from them.","License for a tavern and the purchase of some nails.","Business matters.","Request for some grass seed for his orchard.","Account of the sale of his tobacco received by George Edward Henderson.","Tobacco business. Is sorry that any part of his conduct could have caused ill feeling between them.","Suit by Skipwith against Royster. Also miscellaneous notes by Skipwith regarding some slaves and other items.","Receipt for settlement of debts owed to him by Jacob Mettart and James Swinton, of Petersburg.","Payment for his tobacco.","His recent illness.","Account of his tobacco sold in London.","Statement of his account for a wagon and slaves.","Rights and title to a bond. Also other jottings regarding business accounts, etc.","Are sending him a hamper of London port wine.","His attendance at the Court House.","His borrowing money on his account.","Scope and Contents","Early delivery of some tobacco.","Survey of a plot of tobacco land.","Deed for the sale of some land.","Price of tobacco in Petersburg, he requests to know.","Settlement of John Holt's estate and the provision of money for the education of his orphans--hopes he will befriend them.","Bill for various goods.","Legal provisions of an ejectment, \"an action, commonly used for the trying of titles, and recovery of lands, etc., illegally withheld from the right owner.\"","Disposal of the Holt estate.","Money for the purchase of corn. Had prevented the suit brought by Murray's prosecutors against him from being heard this court.","Court matters. Advises him to discuss the suit against Billy Heale, because of the cost of witnesses, etc.","Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, to Philip Moody. Bond for a hundred and twenty pounds, Virginia currency","Scope and Contents","Statement of his account since December 1785.","Delivery of some corn or money. \"I hope you will not fail to send me one or the other.\"","Tobacco bond. Is to deliver it up to Colonel Penn.","Sheep shearing and other farming matters. Has spoken to Major Boyce \"on account of your enormous tax in Surrey.\"","Bond for thirty five pounds, ten shillings, the balance due on the purchase of two Negro slaves.","Delivery of some iron and a pair of gloves.","Statement of his account.","Their lack of several of the articles he ordered, including a weeding hoe.","Bill for various goods, including a table cloth and drapes.","Receipt of a packet.","Tax account.","Statement of his account.","Bond for forty seven pounds, fifteen shillings.","Bond for seven hundred pounds, seven shillings and eight pence. The bond endorsed on the back as having been discharged is signed, William Allen, 3 August 1789.","Delivery of some goods, including some osnaburg fabric and nails, and the state of their account.","Bill for various goods, including thread, cloth, linen, buttons, buckles, and nails.","Purchase of some nails and buttons.","Tobacco and the disposal of other goods of his.","The Reverend Mr. John Scot and his desire \"to complete a union on which my future happiness so much and so immediately depends.\"","Collection of some fees.","Bond for two hundred pounds.","Articles requested by him.","His marriage, legal difficulties, in the laws of Virginia.","Court matters.","Bond for some Negroes he made with Mr. Peyton? Short.","Miscellaneous bill receipts for slaves, clothing and spices, and other business documents.","Purchase of some land on Butchers Creek. The plantation is in bad repair.","Debt due to Colonel Edward Harwood, payment in money or tobacco as he pleases.","Bond of one hundred pounds for the delivery of four slaves.","Purchase of some wine.","Sum of money due from him to the esate of Colonel William Harwood.","His illness since arriving in Louisville. \"Your land is started in a most growing part of the country...faster than any other part of Kentucky.\" High price of uncultivated land \"owing to the astonishing migration to the Western Country.\" General export of tobacco down the Mississippi.","Bond for thirteen pounds, ten shillings, and nine pence.","About some money due to his wife.","Personal matters.","Scope and Contents","About the purchase of some land.","Doctor Olwer; wishes he could help \"but we seem quite full of gentlemen of his profession in this part of the country.\"","Presentation of some of hsi bills to Messers Stott and Donaldson.","Accepts their offer after school ends in April; mentions his mother's Lillias (Miller) Ravenscroft marriage to Mr. Patrick Steward in Scotland.","Account of tobacco received and sold from on board the vessel Termagant.","Hop roots.","Invoice for buttons, cambrick, flannel, pepper, ginger, mustard, nutmeg, cinnamon, raisins, and salt.","Payment of thirteen pounds to Mr. William Richards. Also includes Sir Peyton Skipwith, to Thomas Vaughan,, 1789 April 20","Supply of various goods.","Receipt for two bonds on which he is bringing suits in the District Court of Petersburg.","Lease for his storehouse and lumber house at the ferry.","Invoice of goods sent to him, including salt, wine, brass knobs, a hat, flannel, and diapers.","Bond for 5,692 lbs. of tobacco.","Invoice of goods purchased.","Sale of some land.","Invoice for goods purchased, including wine and butter.","Number of his slaves.","Statement of their account for buttons.","Asks about her pregnancy; gives news of relatives and friends in Scotland; discusses mental attitudes toward the loss of a child; is preparing to give a speech at the College on August 1.","Title to a deed.","Invoice for goods purchased, including sugar and tea.","Purchase of a horse.","Goods purchased, including nails, and the state of his account.","Shipment of tobacco, and related business.","Invoice of goods purchased by him, including putty, knives, chalk, and shoes.","Statement of their account.","Their daughter Helen Skipwith, later Helen Coles and his need to attend to business.","Payment of the balance outstanding to him.","Shipment of his tobacco to London.","Pay the bearer of this letter, Mr. Allison, thirty shillings.","Agreement regarding the purchase of some land in Mecklenburg County.","Scope and Contents","Purchase of a colt. Also included Colonel William Johnson to Sir Peyton Skipwith. Regrets that he has sold the animal.","Lewis Payne, an \"industrious young man.\" Also would he pay the two hundred pounds oustanding to him.","Their account.","Purchase of some land.","Account of the sale of his tobacco received from on board the Lady St. John.","State of his suit against Mr. Robinson.","Dawes, Stephenson, \u0026 Co., London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith. About the sale of his tobacco received from on board the Hartley.","His decision to be of service to him.","Progress of his two suits in the Petersburg district court. Also enclosed is a receipt for two bonds dated March 10, 1790.","Legal matters.","Merchandise contracted for, being ready.","His title to some land.","Subpoenas for witnesses for his suits pending in the Brunswick district court.","Tobacco sales and shipments, \"the markets in Europe are glutted with Tobaco...I think there must be a demand for France as soon as the Commotions have subsided.\"","Bond for forty pounds.","Bond for one hundred and eighty pounds.","The moving of rock from Mr. Ross's plantation.","Sale of his tobacco. \"Our house does not possess the talent of flattery.\"","Sale of his property. Demands secure terms and no bad or defective title.","Outstanding taxes for 1783.","Their tobacco account.","Freight for his tobacco.","The payment of his Revenue lent to Mr. Thomas Vaughan.","Receipt for some corn, Brown writing on behalf of Stott \u0026 Donaldson.","Report on the progress of the various tasks on the plantations.","Correspondence with Major P.L. Gryms. Has not heard from Sir Peyton's son since March when he was in good health.","Bond for twenty-three pounds, four shillings and nine pence.","Scope and Contents","The delivery of a carriage and horses. Will pay him in bank notes which \"pass as specie in every state in the Union,\" there being a shortage of specie.","Business and family matters. Is endeavoring \"to get several sums due from Colonel Washington and others.\"","Will attend to his interests.","Bond for seventy pounds with Thomas Greenwood, guardian to the orphans of Robert Greenwood.","Payment of Robert Atkinson for wagon freight.","Payment of some money to Robert Birchett. Receipt for payment on the back, signed Robert Birchett, dated1792 September 27.","Discusses some bills of exchange which are in litigation, and some land Skipwith inquired about.","Invoice of goods purchased, including linen.","Bill and receipt of varous expenses and services rendered, including some wine and ale.","A Christmas box and other small matters.","Scope and Contents","The goods purchased by her.","The payment of some money","Scope and Contents","Subpoenas and witnesses for his suits in the Brunswick District Court.","Survey and plan of some land.","Port wine and Irish beef tongue.","Declaration of his authority as a justice of the city of Charleston and a public notary.","State of his account.","State of his account.","Various business matters including his offer to purchase some land belonging to Mr. Price.","The sale of some land of Mr. Price in payment for taxes.","Domestic matters.","Scope and Contents","Statement and receipt for the balance of his account.","The disposal of some land in Kentucky belonging to the estate of John Hartwell","The best time to ship his tobacco. Some apprehension that the market \"will be glutted with stemmed Tob.\"","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","His lack of a cart and the delivery of some pork.","The disposal of some land in the district of Kentucky.","A receipt for some money.","Bill \u0026 receipt for bridge tolls.","Bill for some articles furnished for his daughter.","His suits pending in the Brunswick district court.","Blank orders to summon a witness to testify on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith in his suit pending with the Executors for Edward Harward.","Several small business matters. Also his pending trip to Georgia.","Some Lusirn? Lucerne? seed.","Mr. Ruffin's injunction to the suit brought against him.","The delivery of a desk, shoes, and buckles.","Freight on board a ship bound for London.","The bad condition of the road and the desirability of a bridge over the creek near his house. .","Money oustanding on his account.","Information on the power of an attorney.","The construction of three stills.","Various business matters.","His consignment of tobacco.","The mill stone business.","Judgement and execution for debt against him.","The quantity of tobacco he wishes shipped.","Arrangements for shipping his tobacco.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","The \"Futility of the Deed\" granted for some land in Kentucky.","Tobacco business.","Concerning legal business.","The construction of a mill; also the employment of \"Pling.\"","Blank Order to summon a witness to attend the suit pending in the Brunswick district court between Sir Peyton Skipwith and the Executors for William Harwood.","Various court and legal matters.","Discusses his ill health and doctor's remedies; Mrs. McMurdo expected to die after the premature birth of a daughter, and distrust of the \"Gentlemen accoucheurs\"; mentions defunct \"Jermyn Bakeres\" ?.","The inspection of his tobacco and other business matters.","Payment of some cash.","His account with Messrs. J. \u0026 A. Freeland.","The payment of rent for the blacksmith's shop.","His collection of books.","Public auction of the Lawson Price estate (land), in Mecklenburg County. March 1794. Document concerns in the court case of James Belsches, Jr. U.S. \"Lawson price and Company\" brought before the Prince George County Court.","Deal for the sale and possession of some land.","Scope and Contents","Bills on Glasgow and London.","A visit to his sister to get her to make a pair of overalls.","Scope and Contents","Payment of the sum obtained in his suit against the Nicholas's.","Bond for two hundred and sixty-two pounds.","Note on Captain Hay in favor of Mr. Baker which he wishes presented to Sir Peyton","His readiness to advocate his claim against H. Carlton. Explains the history of the suit which began over default on a bond.","Scope and Contents","The sale of his land in Halifax County .","The settlement of their account. \"the war with France makes it necessary to prefer an American bottom,\" if payment is to be made in produce.","His order for Imperial Tea.","Request for a pair of shoes.","Some property near Washington and also business matters.","The sale of his tobacco and the granting of credit thereon.","His account.","His request for his horse to visit \"Uncle Greenwood.\"","The sale of his horse and the balance owing on the negro.","Various court matters. Also his alarm at the price of tobacco and his intention to sow more wheat in the fall.","Tax returns on his still.","The purchase of a horse.","The delivery of a letter.","Sends some \"Books of amusement or entertainment\"; mentions Mr. R his wife?; has heard nothing from Britain for a long time.","The law concerning the possession of stills.","Business from his suit against Colonel William Harwood.","The payment of some money he owes him.","Various correspondence and other business matters.","Bond for three hundred and seventy-five pounds.","Bond for one hundred and sixty-six pounds.","Various business matters.","His ague and fever; mentions his wife and Mr. Inge; the price of locally made goods is falling and the scarcity of money has affected the price of land.","Court and other legal matters.","Court business.","Various business matters.","Appointment of Short to be his attorney to sell lands claimed by him in the state of Kentucky.","The price of some pork.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Promissory note.","Scope and Contents","The Skipwith accounts; Sir Peyton's recent consignment of tobacco which did not get shipped to England; and a recent smallpox epidemic in Richmond.","Scope and Contents","Maury's receiving thirty-nine Hogs heads of Skipwith tobacco at what appeared to be an inconvenient time for market selling. Maury honors a draft of Skipwith for three hundred pounds.","Wonders why Skipwith did not send answer in case of Holts errs.","Scope and Contents","Note for two pounds, twelve shillings, and eleven pence.","Caleb Johnston eight pounds.","Concerns Skipwith's court involvements with one Mr. Baird.","Informing him of the high water level of several ponds on his property. Including memo informing Sir Skipwith of the leveling off of the water near Robert Birchett's store, Sept. 26, 1794. Reverse, a listing of various salt orders placed by Sir. Peyton in 1793.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Consignment of wheat sent by Skipwith to Campbell of Petersburg. Campbell discusses both the fluctuating prices of wheat and tobacco, and suggets that Skipwith might find a more favorable market for tobacco abroad.","Skipwith's legal entanglements with V. Holloway.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Court litigation involving tobacco, between Skipwith and W. Barberville.","Shalor's inability to pay a debt owed Skipwith.","Tobacco and the disposal of promissory notes.","Skipwith's latest consignment of tobacco sent to England.","Notes concern various financial transanctions of Lady Jean Skipwith.","Skipwith's contract with Shalor for masonry work, and his desire to have said work suspended due to bad weather.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Impending suit against Sir. Peyton Skipwith by Colonel Harwood. including: \"Fishing Days Here Disposed of, 1795\" and \"A list of the small boys that will be able to real tobacco down in the fall 1795.\"","Scope and Contents","Debts due from Jacob Bugg, holder of bond from Skipwith. Mentions intended removal to Kentucky, desires to make contacts via Skipwith among friends.","Invoice of goods to be shipped from Liverpool, including a diamond for cutting glass, putty, window glass, and salt.","Court litigation instituted by Clinch against Skipwith in the High Court of Chancery on behalf of the Holt heirs.","Warns Skipwith of the impending difficulties in the court proceedings instituted against him by the Holt heirs of Surry County.","Job that Robson was not able to perform as expected.","The disputed title of a Negro purchased fom the sheriff of Lunenburg County by Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","As Skipwith's lawyer, Munford advised his client on actions that were to be taken in the \"Donald Affair\" in which Skipwith is defendant. Munford also advised Skipwith on matters pertaining to two other court cases involving Skipwith.","Transactions made through Mr. James Maury of London, for goods in exchange for tobacco crop.","Transactions made through Mr. James Maury of London, for goods in exchange for tobacco crop.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Notice of plan to take William Gray's disposition at Robert Armistead's Tavern, 1795 August 31, 1795.","Arrangements for the payment of taxes by Skipwith.","Notice of court proceeding against them. Concerns the confiscation of thirteen slaves from the Hardwood Estates for the nonpayment of bonds.","Scope and Contents","Court litigation between Sir Peyton Skipwith and Robert Birchett over wheat.","As the Skipwith London agent, Maury encourages Sir Peyton to abandon further shipment of tobacco to London \"earlier than the summer following its growth.\"","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Court litigation in which Skipwith was plaintiff.","Scope and Contents","Petition regarding their suit against John Martin involving a debt and the assignment of a bond of Sir Peyton Skipwith's.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Skipwith's ferry operated by Hopkins and the necessity of improving roads leading to and from said ferry.","Problem of shipping and receiving goods from England, especially tobacco.","Goods ordered by Lady Skipwith.","His suit against Peter Holloway.","Goods shipped from Liverpool for Sir Peyton Skipwith and placed under the care of Mr. McCallum, including a leaf table.","Used as miscellaneous note paper.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Payment of taxes in gold by Skipwith.","Skipwith's involvement in court litigation with Robert Birchett over a wheat contract. Skipwith wants to retain McCrocy as his lawyer.","Scope and Contents","States that Skipwith was to call witnesses to refute the previous testimony of Birchett.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Notice left at Robert Birchett's house on 16 Sept. 1796 by John Hill.","Receipt of payment for Baird Judgement.","Also contains a penned reply by Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County noting receipt of taxes.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Duties owed on goods delivered to Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Carleton's belated payment of debts to Skipwith.","Including reply by Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, noting recipt of taxes.","Mr. Carleton's repeated failure to pay a debt due in September and his desire to pay Skipwith in kind with horses and tobacco with an extension of the debt until December.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Business transactions between Peyton and Bell.","Scope and Contents","Bond for 181 pounds, 9 shillings, and 4 pence.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Payment of a bond.","Complaints by Skipwith over several grindstones purchased from Bell's brother.","Newspapers sent to Vaughan by Skipwith, and Skipwith's court litigation with Mssrs. Bugg and Birchett.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents Stone lime sent to Skipwith and the most recent tobacco prices.","Court litigations and the decrees of the court of appeals.","Letter of certification by John Holloway.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Land transaction, Singleton would like to pay with a horse.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Taxes due for previous year from various individuals, including William Davis, Sheriff of Mecklenburg.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Articles purchased by Skipwith, such as nails, hooks, springs, and hoes, including an itemized list.","Money owed Skipwith by Short and a request for Skipwith to procure \"about twenty likely negroes.\"","State of Skipwith's tobacco crop, and the prices it should fetch once on the market.","Enumerated list of Skipwith's taxes for 1797.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents Skipwith's account with them.","Scope and Contents Including receipt of payment.","Including receipt of payment.","Nathaniel Moss's receipt - October 9, 1797.","Business transaction.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Including receipt for payment.","Scope and Contents","Account of Benjamin Harrison for taxes for the year 1792 with the Sheriff of Mecklenburg County.","Scope and Contents","Map caption: \"On the first day of February began, and on the 15th compleated a Survey of the within Tract of Sir Peyton Skipwith's Land A.D. 1798. Laid down by a Scale of 80 poles to an Inch by John Hill.\"","Mr. Cunningham's transaction with Vaughan dealing with corn and its receipt and transportation, and other business.","Scope and Contents","Matters relating to Skipwith's court litigations with Robert Birchett ?","Skipwith's financial and legal transactions.","Scope and Contents","\"Bag of money\" left at Mr. Vaughan's by Skipwith's agent, John Hill.","Skipwith's request of a 20 pound loan.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Home remedy and treatment for yellow fever.","Materials sent to Lady Jean Skipwith.","Bond for two thousand five hundred pounds.","requesting the use of a horse.","Scope and Contents Concerning T. Burnett.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Skipwith's suit against King, Dinwiddie, Crawford, \u0026 Duncan.","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","Settling of accounts with Mr. Cunningham and Skipwith's future business.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Bell's handling of a shipment of Skipwith's tobacco destined for London. including invoice for 60 hogs heads of tobacco.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Including looking glasses and brass andirons.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Interests and payments on a bond. Also mention of Skipwith's trip to England for the coming summer.","Bennett advises Skipwith not to ship his tobacco from Edenton to Norfolk for shipment to England. Instead he wants the tobacco brought to Petersburg, and placed in his care.","Shipment of Skipwith's tobacco to England","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents Shipment of Skipwith's tobacco to England and some personal papers which Skipwith also wanted to send.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents Asking him to host Sir Peyton Skipwith during his stay in Norfolk.","Scope and Contents","Gracie agrees to dispose of Skipwith's bills on Messrs. Dawes \u0026 Stephenson \u0026 Co. of London.","Reporting sales of tobacco and accounts of land offered for sale.","1801 wheat market, esp. with the West Indies and abroad in Europe. Mentions Mr. Dawson, Tom Payne, Mr. Jefferson, in addition to a pending treaty between U.S. and ?. Also speaks of rumor that England and France had concluded peace.","Receipt to Alexander and James Fulton for Sir Peyton Skipwith, Esq.","Subject of court litigation between Skipwith and Samuel Bray of Hampshire County Ky.?","Skipwith's business with Messrs. Dawes, Stephenson \u0026 Co. of London. Also contains comment on a fever epidemic which had suspended business throughout New York City.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Requesting that they advance George Nicholas Skipwith $1,883.","Scope and Contents","Skipwith's request for $4800.00","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Invoice and receipt for goods purchased.","Fulwar Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Informs Skipwith of the dissolving of Dawes, Stephenson \u0026 Co.'s partnership with John Grayson, and Grayson's venture into business for himself.","Scope and Contents Seeks permission to carry a hogshead of tobacco across Skipwith's plantation to market.","Scope and Contents","Unknown writer's daughter Margaret.","Scope and Contents","Information relating to the dissolving of the business partnership of Dawes, Stephenson, Grayson \u0026 Co. Bennett informs Skipwith of his ship's departure for London via Falmouth.","State of England during the war with France, esp. in terms of their not being able to get American consignments of tobacco to England. Makes personal arrangement with Skipwith for the receipt of his crop.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents Skipwith's interests in purchasing mules.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Purchase of some slaves, and \"grazing\" as a business; describes the soil in his area, and his grasses it supports; comments on his method of crop rotation.","Lady Skipwith's order for music books. Also contains information on the prices for tobacco in Europe \"notwithstanding the blockade of the Elbe \u0026 other restrictions on commerce.\"","Nine hogsheads of tobacco being transported from Suffolk to Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","Direction along the main road to Richmond.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Skipwith's request in his market investments; also discusses the New York market for tobacco.","Informing Skipwith of his plans to charter an American ship for the customers of Grayson \u0026 Noble. Also requests that Skipwith send along 1 1/2 dozen of \"good bacon hams.\"","Requesting that Skipwith decide whether or not he wants to ship his tobacco to England aboard the ship Alexander at City Point Hopewell.","Giving additional information concerning the ship Alexander, such as freight rates for the transporting of Skipwith's tobacco.","Date of departure of a ship from City Point Hopewell for England.","Bennet's receipt in Petersburg of 14 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco for shipment to Messrs. Grayson \u0026 Noble, London.","Bennett's receipt of Skipwith's tobacco.","Sale of 4 hogsheads of Potson tobacco sent by Skipwith. Grayson complains of the inability to sell an additional 74 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco because of Skipwith's faulty methods of packing tobacco for shipment.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Suit against Dinwiddie Crawford \u0026 Co.","Scope and Contents .","Scope and Contents","Sale of 71 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco for Skipwith and their receipt of samples of Dumfries tobacco.","Goods ordered by Skipwith now arrived in Petersburg on board the Protectress.","Receipt and sale of four hogsheads of tobacco.","Availability of ships sailing to Liverpool able to carry Skipwith's tobacco.","Goods purchased by Skipwith and being forwarded to him in the care of Thomas Bennett of Petersburg.","Bills of loading for six hogsheads of tobacco shipped on the Good Intent for New York.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents Two bills for 200 pounds and 300 pounds that Skipwith had deposited with them. Also discussion on the London tobacco market and the necessity of Skipwith's shipping only that tobacco fit for \"home consumption.\"","Business transactions including the purchasing of cotton materials for Skipwith and the prices of tobacco on the Liverpool market.","Baskervill's use of one of Skipwith's servants to transport some articles.","Receipt of Skipwith's shipment of six hogsheads of tobacco.","Scope and Contents","Some bound volumes of music purchased by Lady Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Disposal of two bills of exchange drawn upon Messrs. Grayson \u0026 Noble of London by Sir Peyton Skipwith for 200 pounds a piece.","Their approval of transactions allowing James Maury of Liverpool to draw up the Skipwith account to cover purchases made in behalf of Sir Peyton. The high rate of insurance for shipping due to Spanish Privateers.","Order for books, including an itemized list.","Purchases made by Skipwith and the tobacco market in Liverpool; including invoice.","Transportation of Skipwith's tobacco crop to London.","Mare.","Goods purchased by Lady Skipwith, including shoemakers' pinchers and nippers, with an itemized list.","Goods purchased, including cloth.","Death of Sir Peyton Skipwith on October 11, 1805 and the death of his youngest son. Lady Skipwith as sole executor of her husband's Virginia estates asks Short to settle a court suit that had been pending between Short and Sir Peyton over some bonds of M. Fulwar Skipwith's.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Skipwith's decision to sell his tobacco within the United States.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","\"A tract of land near this place belonging to late Sir Peyton Skipwith.\"","Cask of nails purchased by Lady Skipwith, including invoice.","Lady Skipwith's payment for a cask of nails, including receipt.","Payment for cask of nails, mentions the receipt of \"a bad dollar,\" including receipt.","Balance of the account with the estate of the late Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Error in business transactions between Maury and Grayson \u0026 Noble of London involving the Skipwith account.","Sir Peyton Skipwith's will in relation to a disagreement with Mr. ? Skipwith, and legacies to other children; warns her not to wear herself out in worrying over money matters; mentions his wife and daughter?","Concerns Lady Skipwith's inquiries as to the balance of payment in the Skipwith account.","Disposal and sale of wheat received from Cunningham and Lady Skipwith.","Statement of expenses and receipt for the building of a mill on Cox Creek.","Bond for $525.00. Reverse: receipt for $500.00 paid by Lady Skipwith on December 28, 1808.","Bond for $525.00. Reverse: March 22, 1808. William Marshall, attorney for Francis Lockett assigns bond to Walter Alver, Orange Co., North Carolina.","Business transactions concerning a \"draft of the oven\" and a note for $134.25.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Order of books for Lady Skipwith, including an invoice.","Scope and Contents","Books ordered and paid for by Lady Skipwith including invoice and receipt.","Whether or not Cunningham wanted the timber on a tract of land that Williamson wants to cultivate.","Scope and Contents","Patterned material that Lady Skipwith ordered, but which could not be had. Potts sends substitution.","Merchantile company of Alexander and James Fulton of Petersburg, and the late Sir Peyton's heirs.","Former business transactions between Maitland and Christian, and Sir Peyton Skipwith, deceased.","Notice of payment for an order of grain. Also references to the shortage of fine salt.","Each bond for $525.00 and due at Christmas, 1807.","Commanding him to present a summons to Jean Skipwith to appear before Mecklenburg County Court for negligence as proprietress of a ferry across the Roanoke River.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Receipt of two pounds and eight shillings and also six dollars for one year's subscription to the Portfolio.","Business transactions between Lady Skipwith, George Nicholas Skipwith and Peyton Skipwith. Bell claims money cannot be paid until the repeal of the embargo law.","Request that Lady Skipwith supply him with enough grape seeds to get him in stock.","Bell expresses his regrets that he cannot, due to the embargo, follow Lady Skipwith's wishes concerning the payment of his tobacco bond. Also mentions, in margin, the total lack of cotton to be had from Charleston or St. Mary's.","Scope and Contents","Concerning the receipt of Lady Skipwith's wheat, and the shipment of a quantity of salt to Prestwould, including invoice.","Receipt of a shipment of wheat from Lady Skipwith and the sale of butter sent earlier.","Receipt of a quantity of wheat and butter sent to Petersburg for sale.","Scope and Contents","Lady Skipwith's pending orders for tea, almonds, raisins, and china.","Memo of Lady Skipwith's renting for one year the land of Abraham Lockett, orphan.","Promissory note for $15000","Obligation to Lady Skipwith for $50.00 unless they can settle disputed title of ownership of land (2 1/2 acres) sold to her.","Shipment of an order of \"cotton cards\" to Lady Skipwith.","Lady Skipwith's tobacco crop. Including receipt.","Promissory note for $100.00.","Receipt of two loads of wheat from Lady Skipwith. Including invoice of goods purchased by Lady Skipwith.","Lady Skipwith's wheat account. including receipt.","invoice of items purchased, including hinges, screws, and glue.","Receipt of Lady Skipwith's shipment of wheat.","Hick's recollections of Sir Peyton Skipwith's mill. Offers to send deposition to aid Lady Skipwith in her court suit with the Young family.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Memo of Lady Skipwith's transactions with Barns to rent a portion of Lockett's lands.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Divison of Sir Peyton Skipwith's estate (d. 1805) among his living relatives.","Cunningham's orders for sugar and cloth, and the change in previous prices.","Writer's travels on the lower peninsula, visiting friends and relatives. Comments on Williamsburg and Hampton, also life in naval Norfolk.","Scope and Contents","Guardian of Abraham Lockett. Memo of agreement to rent from Barnes a tract of land. Made by Cunningham in Lady Skipwith's behalf.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Balance due Rowley? Grymes from the estate of Lady Skipwith's late husband, Sir Peyton Skipwith.","Promissory note for $50.00.","Bill and invoice of books purchased.","Goods purchased for Lady Skipwith. Reverse: invoice of goods purchased.","Suit against Lady Skipwith as executrix of her late husband's estates by Dinwiddie, Crawford and Co. of Petersburg.","Scope and Contents","Correction of a billing mistake on some books ordered by Lady Skipwith.","Apperson's proposed trip to Richmond and his promise to transact some business concerning Lady Skipwith.","Price of bar iron ordered by Lady Skipwith, including invoice.","Work done for Skipwith by Ogle, thanking Skipwith for his recommendations to others of Ogle's work.","Business transaction with Lady Skipwith, including list of bank notes.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Bill for books.","Bill for two \"stock locks\" of $2.00.","Bill for $10.00.","Promissory note for $50.00","Scope and Contents","Lady Skipwith's book order and contains information concerning the types of books binding available.","Agreement for the rental of a tract of land for $25.00.","Invoice and bill with receipt for goods purchased, including muslin, binding, thimbles, pins, nutmeg, and rice.","Business transactions concerning the receipt and payment for bacon and hogs sent to Puryear.","Scope and Contents","Bill for lodging and other services.","Bill and receipt for purchase of \"3 spades.\"","Bill and receipt for goods purchased.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Receipt for $180.00 for building and setting up a wheat machine upon Lady Skipwith's estate.","Invoice and bill with receipt for 11 books purchased.","Bill and receipt for one piece of web.","Invoice and bill with receipt for goods purchased, including plows.","Invoice and bill with receipt for purchases, including cutting knives and a saw.","Bill and receipt for items purchased, including saws.","Bill and receipt for goods purchased, including muslin and chest locks.","Scope and Contents","Receipt for $150.00 yearly rent on lands of Abner Lockett.","Scope and Contents","Invoice and bill with receipt for purchases, including calico, buttons, thimble, and morocco shoes.","Shipment of goods from England to Lady Skipwith. Including, James Maury, Liverpool, to Lady Jean Skipwith, June 27, 1816. Also including, James Maury and Latham, Liverpool, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Sept. 5, 1816.","Invoice and bill for Lady Skipwith's purchase of carpeting.","Concerns books which correspondent is sending Lady Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","Receipt for the rent of land from Thomas Lockett's orphans.","Acting as trustee for William M. Puryear, Boyd informs Skipwith of the depositing of $424.00 in the exchange bank of Va which is to be credited to a bond due Skipwith from Puryear.","Scope and Contents","Invoice and bill for goods purchased.","Invoice and bill for books purchased.","Humberstone Skipwith's account current with his mother and Selina? Skipwith for drafts and cash advanced.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Bill for cotillion party.","Receipt for the rent of Abner Lockett's land for the year 1818.","Receipt for purchase of dimity and fringe.","Scope and Contents","Receipt for purchases at the carpet and linen warehouse.","Receipt for payment on the purchase of one sofa.","Receipt for items purchased, i.e., damask draperies and napkins.","Scope and Contents","Receipt for purchase of 21 yards of curtain dimity.","Receipt for purchase of 21 yards of furniture dimity.","Bill for various purchases of nails, hinges, hooks, and staples.","Receipt for planking and scathing purchased.","Payment for shipping of one pair of snuffers.","Received of Captain Ferguson on account of glass service sent Mr. Skipwith at Norfolk.","Books purchased--Bachelor and Married Man, Women are Pour-et-Contre, Hawthorn Cottage, and New Tales…","Receipt for purchase of a quantity of nails.","Scope and Contents","Promissory note, Including note of receipt of payment by David Scott, May 14, 1819. Also including note of Humberstone Skipwith paying Mrs. Nivison, July 10, 1819.","Wickham's advice to Skipwith that he not bring suit against John Bell for a bond for $569.64 which was overdue","Bill for mending plastering round the doors.","Bill of sale for tobacco.","Receipt for purchase of goods, including broad top chairs.","Receipt for 12 1/4 yards of furniture dimity purchased.","Bill of sale for flower pots, a brass bell pull, and copper wire.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Asks for financial aid.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Lawsuit of Skipwith and Murray.","Will pay $1000.00 for Col. Green at Mecklenburg Court.","Purchase of wool.","Mr. Baily taking his slaves away.","Concerning settlement in the case of Skipwith v. Murray.","Scope and Contents","Request for a loan of $3000.00.","Request for a loan of $2000.00.","Scope and Contents","Death of Sarah (Nivison) Skipwith and the \"prevailing Epidemick;\" and returning some books.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Information on the price of oil, also asks him to visit.","Information on prices of goods and statement of his account for sugar, coffee, and salt.","Scope and Contents","Request for more time to arrange paying off his debt to Boyd.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Statement of money and bonds given John Buford.","Legal notices which have been sent to parties in a lawsuit; will bring copies of the judgement.","Purchase of land in Norfolk by Skipwith.","Farmer will manage Skipwith's Norfolk property.","Request for Cunningham to accept drafts written by John Buford on him.","Arrangements for loan to John Buford.","Wheat prices and wine prices.","Sale of Mr. Boyd's flour.","Sale of Mr. Boyd's flour.","Denies that Lady Skipwith plans to help Mr. Ravesncroft.","Loan for his brother; explains why Col. Green wrote Lady Skipwith about Mr. Ravenscroft.","Will release his property if he pays his debt; if he pays the whole debt Lady Skipwith will make a loan to his brother.","Asks Cunningham to pay off some on Buford's debts.","Cameron is lending money to Buford.","Scope and Contents","Concerning notices delivered.","Account of sales of flour.","Wants to buy crops.","Wants tobacco crop sent to Richmond; price not settled.","Returns accounts with transfer from Lady Skipwith to Cunningham's account.","Will deliver goods bought.","Skipwith's lease to Lyon of proprerty in Norfolk.","Scope and Contents","Will try to sell Lady Skipwith's tobacco.","Hopes to provide good security for his debts.","Sale of Lady Skipwith's tobacco crop.","Had a safe journey; Cunningham in Petersburg may be in financial trouble; Mrs. Tazewell is sick because of birth of her child; asks H. S. to send Franky to help Mrs. Tazewell.","Drought killed his crop; asks for loan of $500.00.","Scope and Contents","Financial problems.","Will supply him with a sulky.","Scope and Contents","Note for $7500.","Scope and Contents","Attempts to settle his mother's estate's accounts.","Asks for loan of $3500.","Data on tobacco sales.","Sends items from their store.","Scope and Contents","Wants to purchase corn.","Scope and Contents","Sale of cotton.","Visited Baltimore; sympathy at death of her child.","Asks for Humberstone Skipwith's papers for lawsuit in New Orleans.","Scope and Contents","Lawsuit.","Glad his wife and child are now well.","Asks to borrow $1000.","Scope and Contents","Her health better; hopes to have another child.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Asks to borrow $5000.00.","Asks to borrow $4000.00.","Scope and Contents","Skipwith's tax problems.","Scope and Contents","Organization of The Exchange Bank of Va.","National economic difficulties and how they kept their business going; asks for his patronage.","Scope and Contents","Asks to borrow $4000.00.","Asks to borrow $30,000.00.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Liquidation of Tredegar Iron Works.","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","Family news.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Helen's husband detained in Washington.","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","County government.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents .","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Hopes to help him with his present troubles, i.e. bankruptcy and forced sale of his land.","Asks to buy his house.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Asks him to pay off his accounts.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Asks him to pay his bill.","Celia's divorce went through.","Virginia census of 1890.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Ferry","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","Postcard.","Correspondence and other material concerning the history of the Skipwith pianoforte and its acquisition and subsequent care and use by the College of William and Mary; includes 2 8\" x 10\" black and white photographs (P1 and P2) of the pianoforte, and xerox copies from the Broadwood Porters books, 16 July 1816, indicating the original sale and delivery of the pianoforte; printed auction catalogue, 1946, listing \"English Harpsichord (beautiful)\"; and the Silvery Jubilee Catalogue, 1969, of the Colt Clavier Collection. Also includes the 2003 Conservation Report of the pianoforte by John R. Watson and Louis Dolive of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. 48 items.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Includes one about a piano tuner from Cynthia Beverley (Tucker) Washington Coleman; and another from Lelia (Skipwith) Lee about their travels in Dresden and Berlin, Germany, and Paris, France.","Including a letter from \"cousin\" Mary Skipwith Roberts of New Orleans, a letter form Fulwar to his father, Humberstone Skipwith, and a memo on rebuilding the bridge across Bluestone Creek.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Mainly relating to farm and financial matters; including a letter from John W. Lewis on the estate of \"Major Nelson,\" and William B. R. on a mysterious door opening; financial matters of Lady Jean (Miller) Skipwith from William F. Wickham; and several from William Jeter and John B. Tunstall.","including a list of Negroes purchased at \"John? Bufords Sale,\" and an order for parts for a mill ?.","Scope and Contents","Including a letter to Sir Peyton Skipwith, one from Jean Feild inviting her to visit, a fragment of a poem in Lady Jean's handwriting, and an account.","Including letters from Peyton Short, Leila (Skipwith) Carter Tucker, Fulwar Skipwith (a cousin of Sir Peyton), and several from Richard Eggleston, as well as two letters from Sir Peyton to Lady Jean Skipwith.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Items with no obvious Skipwith connection.","Items with no obvious Skipwith connection.","Items with no obvious Skipwith connection.","See also Medium Oversize File.","\"Rates of Transportation on the Petersburg, Va. Rail Road\" with extracts from an act of the General Assembly, 3 January 1833.","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","Scope and Contents","See Manuscripts Oversize Folder Map Case 40.6","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","See Manuscript Artifact Collection.","A visit; and letters of Claudia Stuart Coles to her uncle, Fulwar Skipwith, about a ferry.","Indexed.","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Indexed.","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","Notebook No. 10 1873 was not with the collection when it was received.","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","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","(Note: Map transferred to Map Collection).","Scope and Contents","250 pounds sent to Gray and an additional 200 pounds sent to Gray to serve as an allowance while he studies at Cambridge. He does not wish for Gray to borrow against his Newbold estate to finance his living, noting the dangers of becoming indebted and the value of a debt free life.","Confirms the sending of 200 pounds and expresses hope that the financial arrangements he established for Gray will be sufficient. Expresses desire for Gray to pursue a profession reflective of Gray's standing in society. He further suggests that Gray should study law as it might prove useful in the future for helping the family recover their ancestral lands in Leicestershire.","Scope and Contents Mentions that Gray did not receive earlier letter so he repeats the news he enclosed in previous letter. Notes the disastrous crop season this year. States that the weavils ruined the wheat crop and the tobacco plants were ruined by violent rains. Because he was unable to reap a profit from crop sales he recalls financial loans given to Peyton Short and Francis Ruffin. Informs Grey of the birth of a son named Humberston. Also mentions that Grey's sister, Leila has recently married St. George Tucker and that Grey's youngest sister, Maria, has died.","Begins letter with a complaint of unpaid debts and the fact that Virginia courts favor debtors over lenders. Notes that as a result, he will have to cancel Gray's allowance until finances improve.","Notes continuing financial difficulties and his success at surmounting them. Sending a letter of conveyance from Sir Thomas Skipwith to Gray, expresses the importance of the land conveyance to avoid the land from falling into a distant branch of the family.","His approaching voyage to England and his poor health. Believes that the sight of his son will give him great pleasure. His current financial condition and the sale of useless lands in Kentucky. Letter mentions a visit from one of Gray's old friends, Mr. Grymes Jr. of Brandon in Middlesex.","Discusses a meeting with Mr. Grymes and Edmund Randolph in Richmond. Also notes the state of his finances and his success with his tobacco and wheat crops. Notes that he cancelled his trip to England because he had regained his health.","Visit of William Bell to London. He notes that Mr. Bell will deliver this letter to him and take any letters from Grey and expresses hope that all is well. Also requests that Gray obtain a complete set of Sir Peyton's account from Rowles and Grymes to aid him in a financial dispute with Phillip Grymes of Brandon, Virginia. Mentions a visit from Wyndham Randolph, nephew of Edmund, and Wyndham's sisters. Also notes the purchase of Occoneechee, an estate for his brother, Peyton Jr. Further mentions the current state of his own home, Prestwould. He notes with pride that he has the most beautiful home in Virginia and also breeds the best horses in Virginia.","Begins with him expressing disappointment over Gray not writing him more often and for neglecting to tell him about his marriage and the birth of his grandchild. Informs Grey that there is no reason for letters not to reach him because there is now a post office in Marthasville from which he can send letters. Boasts about his financial lifestyle and his happiness with his life in Virginia. notes that Gray's sister Leila's children by Robert Carter stand to inherit equally from the Cortoman estate. Also mentions Peyton Jr., trip to Georgia and his engagement to Cornelia Greene, daughter of General Nathaniel Greene.","His hopes that Gray's wife, Harriet, has a son and that Gray choose him as grandchild's godfather. Birth of George Skipwith to Peyton Jr. and his wife. Selina's continuing studies in Baltimore.","Informs Gray of Sir Peyton's death after a long illness. Discusses finances with Gray, noting their father's estate was quite large and unencumbered at his death.","Responds to Gray's letter discussing outstanding debts of Sir Peyton in London. Lady Skipwith candidly details her discovery of Sir Peyton's poor financial condition prior to their marriage and his later struggle to pay off his debts. She notes the difficulty of collecting debts in America and the amount of labor that it takes to run a successful tobacco farm. Agrees to pay English debt which Gray mentioned in an earlier letter but inquires whether it is the only debt outstanding.","Informs Guy of the death of his brother, Peyton Jr. In addition to details of Peyton's death, she discusses the health of her children and the birth of Peyton's last child, Catharine. Comments on the distance between herself and Grey and speculates that she will never see him. Informs him of Humberton's, his half-brother, success at Princeton and his half-sisters, Selena and Helena's blossoming beauy. Also mentions that family friends of hers saw him in London. Concludes with her strong desire to keep in touch with him and his family. She uses the spelling \"Grey\" instead of \"Gray.\"","Brochures about the Virginia Women in History Awards, an oversize certificate given in honor of Lady Jean Skipwith, and a speech given by Susan Riggs about Lady Jean Skipwith.","Includes a poem written by Gray Skipwith and a letter written to Gray Skipwith by an unknown author.  Mss. Acc. 2011.438.","Acc. 2011.591 transferred from College Papers a 2-page letter from Kate Skipwith with Vellum Card Trick note and letter from EG Swem explaining the note."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eA portion of the library of Lady Jean Skipwith is in the Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials:"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["A portion of the library of Lady Jean Skipwith is in the Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"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_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Skipwith Family","Skipwith, Fulwar, 1836-1900","Skipwith, Humberston, 1791-1863","Skipwith, Jean Miller, 1748-1826"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"famname_ssim":["Skipwith Family"],"persname_ssim":["Skipwith, Fulwar, 1836-1900","Skipwith, Humberston, 1791-1863","Skipwith, Jean Miller, 1748-1826"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":1562,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T10:55:13.419Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_9004_c01_c03_c08"}},{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8486_c02_c11","type":"File","attributes":{"title":"Accounts","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8486_c02_c11#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: B. 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Ficklin \u0026 Son; W. Garth; J.C. Lupton; Sample \u0026 Leitch; W. Dawson; N. Burnley; Charles Brown; M.D., A. Watson; B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co.; G.T. Owens; and Deane \u0026 Brown. Among variety of work, household and personal items involved are medical bills, itemized listing of day labor and an order of forks. Family members mentioned are: B.B. Garland, Garland, Mrs. E. B. Garth, Mrs. W. Garth, Elizabeth Garth, J. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 89 items."],"title_filing_ssi":"Accounts","title_ssm":["Accounts"],"title_tesim":["Accounts"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1840-1849"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1840/1849"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Accounts"],"component_level_isim":[2],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"collection_ssim":["Garth Family papers"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"level_ssm":["File"],"level_ssim":["File"],"sort_isi":37,"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":[1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849],"containers_ssim":["Box 4","Folder 2"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: B. Ficklin \u0026amp; Son; W. Garth; J.C. Lupton; Sample \u0026amp; Leitch; W. Dawson; N. Burnley; Charles Brown; M.D., A. Watson; B.C. Flannagan \u0026amp; Co.; G.T. Owens; and Deane \u0026amp; Brown. Among variety of work, household and personal items involved are medical bills, itemized listing of day labor and an order of forks. 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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.","Organization: This collection is separated into five Series: 1. Correspondence, 2. Financial Records, 3. Legal Records, 4. Miscellaneous Material, 5. Manuscript Volumes. Arrangement: After being organized into Series, each Series is then arranged chronologically by date.","Processed by Madelyn Redd in 1984.","This inventory contains personal and buisness correspondence, financial documents, loans, promissory notes, legal documents, tax information, and land records belonging to the Jesse Garth family of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, The majority of the inventory documents correspondence chiefly from 1800-1854 between family members, mostly the adult children of Jesse and Elizabeth Garth, fl. 1798-1854, especially Lucy E. B. Garth, fl. 1820-1849; Sarah Garth Goodman, fl. 1820-1842; Jesse B. Garth, fl. 1833-1834; and May S. Garth Sumner, fl. 1849-1851, as well as other nephews and family members.","Other materials include accounts from business and legal acquaintances in the Richmond and Charlottesville, Va. areas. The subject matter in these letters pertain to agricultural and business matters, the War of 1812, slavery, emancipation, land transactions, schools, and legal concerns. Also included is a suicide note dated, 30 June 1835.","Scope and Contents Describes defeat of British in \"Canady\" and valor of Jo(h)nson's Regiment of mounted militia against the British regulars; tells of cowardice of Proctor (?); relates death of \"Tecomse\" (sic) (Tecumseh) by severely wounded Col. T. Jo(h)nson; hopes government will now support the war \"hart and hand\"; send regards to various friends; Jo(h)nson expected to recover; twenty men lost in the charge; mentions upcoming marriage of Rodes Garth and \"Mis Carigan\"; asks after brother, Elijah. 4pp. ALS. Including typescript.","Scope and Contents Describes prospects in Alabama; things hard as cotton prices down 1/2; provisions quite expensive; sale of public land continues and will during next year; one of his sons could make fortune with only a few hundred dollars in land; poor health has prevented attention to business; reiterates good potential of area; money could be placed in account with E. Anderson in Richmond; 90 days would be enough time for son to arrive, choose land, and make arrangements; life at first would be rought; sends regards to Jesse and his family and his own mother. 3pp. ALS. Including typescript.","Scope and Contents Inquires about health; glad to receive letter; hopes own crops do well; corn goes for $.60/bushel and pork for $6.00; everything else \"dull\"; money scarce as time of contraction; inquires if still intends to visit in spring; hard winter sonce Christmas; looks forward to their visit. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Relates information concerning next court date and which session they should plan on attending; requests advice for Adelisa (?) Cooper, young acquaintance who is considering opening a \"female school\" in the Charlottesville area. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents In response to his request, has inquired about possible need for a school for women; explains that there are several in the area. 1p. ALS. Incomplete.","Scope and Contents Inquires about family's health and Isaac's recovery; compelled to seek loan as saw mill in need of repairs and unable to raise cash; hopes to recover costs within 3 to 4 weeks of operation; Tho(ma)s Garth will give further explanation; letter will serve as bond and receipt until repayment. Receipt of loan acknowledged in writing by Tho(ma)s Garth. In third hand, both Jesse and T. Grath with notations of $50.00 written. 2pp. ALS. Including typescript.","Describes exact measurements for planks neeeded for roofing materials.1p. ALS.","Discusses his recovery; inquires about family's health; replies to previous question regarding total loans to Jesse; estimates $971.48; would like repayment but is aware of recent misfortunes; own health compells him t oresolve financial matters; is agreeable to suggestion that enslaved persons be repayment. 1p. ALS.","Scope and Contents Realizes own death is near; wants to resolve question of loans as quickly and as easily as possible; if Jesse brings or send it, money should be in N. Carolina bills; if executors call for it, they may demand \"the best money\" as compensation; doesn't mean to alarm him over either loan or impending death; trusts both will be quickly resolved. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Trip home took 22 days due to inclement weather, poor health, and a bad axle; he and Lucy are in good health; she has gained weight; hopes all are well; spring in Kentucky is \"bakcwards\" as tobacco is planted before corn; tobacco in New Orleans is at $4.00 and rising, corn is $1.25/bushel. 2pp. ALS.","Gives particulars pertaining to upcoming trip to Richmond; invites Sarah to come. 1p. ANS.","Scope and Contents Arrived last night at cousin Winston Garth's; the axeltree broke again; Aunt Unity (?) is ill; had a daughter nine days ago; the doctor is doubtful of her recovery; Winston at the land sales; will leave in morning to join him as little time to explore the land before the sale starts on the 22nd; trip took 26 days and cost $38.74, besides swapping horses as mentioned previously; horses are fine; averaged 23 or24 miles/day; met many old acquaintances on way; met Rowland Gouch near Huntsville, who used to live at the Barracks (?) and knew everybody in Albemarle; corn crops in Virginia surpass those elsewhere; cotton does well in some areas and less well in others. 2pp. ALS. Including ANS from Susan Garth, Morgan Co., Alabama, to her parents (in-law), Jesse Garth and wife, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 7, 1833, concerning trip; describes Aunt Unity's condition; please pass on news to her own parents; won't write until Jesse B. returns and situation with Aunt Unity resolved. 1p.","Scope and Contents Concerned that has had no reply to letters since left Virginia; dissapointed that country site was not at Walker; choice was result of speculation only; unpopularity will end in petition to change it at next legislative meeting; party spirit runs high; strongest party is Constitutional Nullifiers; offered $6.00/acre; had paid $1.50/acre; will soon sell; intends to join Winston Garth in Chickasaw land sale in summer and fall; describes area and its name; extremely wet winter and spring; much livestock drowned and many roads closed; warns brothers no to be partners with William (?) Garth, as he only wants their money and has since caused own trouble with Winston; requests any old accounts to be settled and money forwarded; health is good, hopes some will move out to good farm land and horses. 3pp. ALS. Including ANS from Susan Garth, Okachickoma, Yalabusha Co., Mississippi, to parents (in-law) Jesse Garth and wife, Charlottesville, Virginia, concerning cost of living and decision to teach; thinks have done well for first year; she and sister (?) Polly miss family. 1p.","Scope and Contents Suicide note copied by Julius A. Harris for Jesse Garth. Letter explains reasons for action- her reaction to his confession of lying about buying paintings prevented him from relating details of lie about buying furniture; never had the money and unable to borrow it from friends or relatives; apologizes for the anguish has caused; her love, generosity, and affection are not enough to balance his deception; asks for forgiveness; explains his lies were never intended to be painful or deceptive; he only wanted her to be happy and has sincerely loved her; advises her to ask Mr. Cock to take her and children to Nelson, (Kentucky?) immediately. 2ppp. ACYS of ALS.","Scope and Contents Empathizes with sister's dental discomforts and gives advice; describes own health; reassures mother (in-law?) about her weight; asks after Sarah; describes baby son, Egbert, about his growth and achievements; describes spring and garden produce; agree would be nice to live closer to family, but accepts the situation; asks parents and sibling to visit. 3pp. ALS.","Family recovering from the measles; concerned that brother and his family may move to Florida; sends condolences to enslaved person named Johnson, little news other than domestic concerns; misses family and hopes to see them but uncertain of when could visit; likens baby daughter Elizabeth to other relatives; asks parents to address next letter to husband, J. Goodman, if they want J. to write them in return. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Expresses relief at news that mother-in-law (Elizabeth) is recovering; announces recent birth of daughter, as yet unnamed; relates prince of produce; has gotten letter from Uncle Garland that father's estate had finally been settled; asks him to verify the information as a business prospect depends on the amount he'd receive; comments that he hopes Thomas G. is no longer an ardent Jackson-Van Buren adherent; asks that the letter be forwarded to his father-in-law, Jesse Garth.","Describes recent business trip which included stops in New Orleans, Mobile, Selma, Tuscaloosa, Greensboro, Huntsville, and Nashville; relates many failures due to first high land prices then a sharp fall; describes own prospects and estimates own profits; requests Jesse and Uncle Briteberry inquire about possibility of sending his cattle to New York; relates family news. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Relates incident of son (?), Sam's accident with hastily loaded wagon of logs and his suprising survival; asks if Jesse has any interest in buying team of mules and gives price he'd consider; inquires after mother and sister (Elizabeth?). 2pp. ALS.","Describes recent weather and speculates on harvest; describes political excitement over issue of emancipation; explains why he believes it won't pass; asks for news about family friend, May Summer; discusses cholera experience; exchanges family news. 2pp. ALS.","Discusses plans to visit parents in late fall or early winter; describes crops and estimates profits; expresses concern for brother's salvation. 2pp. Incomplete.","Scope and Contents Business correspondence with various merchants predominately in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as Milton, Bourbon Co,. Kentucky Correspondents include: Anderson \u0026 Blair; D \u0026 E Anderson; Edward Anderson; John Cothrac (?); Anderson \u0026 Woodson; Luther W. George; Anderson, Wookson, \u0026 Bigges; Thomas Gilmer; A.F. Bigges; Anderson, Blair, \u0026 Anderson; B. Brown, Jr.; and J. Garth. Contentd pertain to various concerns, such as prices of commodities, sale of farm produce, tobacco trading, loans, banking matters, accounts with company, establishing a neighborhood school, opening a new store, and payment of accounts. 29 items.","Scope and Contents Business correspondence with various merchants predominately in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as Hydraulic Mills, Virginia Correspondents include: Blair \u0026 Anderson; Beverly Blair; Deane \u0026 Edwards; John D. Brown (?); Charles Brown; Robert Enrastreny (?); Andrews Samper (?); Deane \u0026 Brown; B.C. Flannagan; James O. Walters; W. \u0026 B. Brown; T. Garth; W. Hatch; and N. N. Wallace. Contents pertain to various concerns, such as accounts with company, tobacco trading, prices of commmodities, sale of cattle, land question, fabric patterns and types, arranging delivery of dairy products with neighbor, proposal to burn (for clearing purposes) adjoining lands by a neighbor, information about sale of farm produce, and possible lumbering information. 23 items.","Jesse Garth's promissory notes, loans, and acknowledgements of debts. 115 items.","Receipts for payments made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 98 items.","Receipts for payments made by either Jesse, Elizabeth, or Brightberry Garth. 78 items.","Receipts for payments made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 68 items.","Receipts made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 121 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills, with various creditors, including: Brown, River, \u0026Co.; Brown, Watson, \u0026 Co.; William Galt; James Horsley; Richard Bibb; J. Kelly \u0026 Co.; and James \u0026 Samuel Leitch for such items as paper, a variety of fabrics, sewing accessories, liquor, farmwork, household goods, staples (i.e. coffee, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, pepper, spices.), hardware, shoes, a shawl, suspenders, exercise book, New York Reader, and tobacco trade. Family members mentioned are J., John, Jesse, and W. Garth. 45 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists, with various creditors, including: R. Anderson, Asa Davey, S.F. Hoy, Branham \u0026 Jones, John H. Craven, David Owens, Abraham Johnson, Anderson \u0026 Blair, Charles Brown, M.D., James \u0026 Samuel Leitch. Items involved included farm labor, building materials and supplies for house, partial total of year's produce, tobacco trade, day work at lumbermill and blacksmithing. Purchases include steel, iron, farm implements, horse furniture, liqour, household goods, staples (i.e. salt, spices, loaf suger, coffee.), necklace, tortoise comb, glass lens, various types shoes, various fabrics, sewing accessories, gloves, blankets, brrass candlesticks, razor, suspenders, dressing glass, china coffee cups, serving bowls, wine glasses, tumblers, and various school books. Family members mentioned include Thomas, Sarah Anne, Polly, \"son Jesse\", Brightberry B., \"Bez'l\", Garland, and Jesse Garth. 59 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists with various creditors, including: Edmund Anderson; John Winn; Kelly \u0026 Norris; Jesse Lewis; David Owens; Branham \u0026 Bibb; John C. St. John; Anderson, Woodson, \u0026 Bigges; Joseph Bishop; George Wolfe; Luther W. George; David Isaacs; George Toole; Joel W. Brown; and G.W. Vaughan. Items involved include: tobacco trade, blacksmithing, labor, house rent, bill of sale for the \"Miller Mare\", and (apparently) stud service. Purchases include: household goods, hardware, iron, timber, leather and leather goods, liqour, shoes, gloves, sewing accessories, various fabrics, cotton stockings, tea set, staples (i.e. spices, loaf sugar, salt, coffee, tea), cigars, and books (English Reader, Picketts Expositor and Goldsmith's English). Family members mentioned are B., Jesse, W., Thomas (son), Brightberry (son), Thomas G., W. David, and James F Garth. 68 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors, including: Anderson, Woodson, \u0026 Bigges; John Gay; John Shiflete; Samuel Dumul (?); Joseph Robinson; M.E. Kelly, N. Barksdale, Dabney Madison; W. Snyder; Jacob C. Lupiton; and Louis Leschot. Items include: iron, tobacco trade, staples (i.e. coffe, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, spices), books (Christian's Blackstone, Tate's Digest, Wheaton's, Hall's Digested Index, dicitionary, copybook, geography and atlas), various fabrics and sewing accessories. Women's account with Jane Isaacs for dresses, bonnets, ostrich feathers, various fabrics, and patterns. Family members include T.G., Lucy E.B., and Mrs. and Mr. Jesse Garth. 49 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: N. Burnley; W. Dawson; B. Ficklin \u0026 Son; J.C. Lupton; E. Hansbarger; Beverley Blair; E \u0026 J Mosely; W. Fellows; E.L. Watson \u0026 Co.; Michie \u0026 Madison; Timberlake \u0026 Magruder; J \u0026 S Leicht; and Louis Leschot. Among variety of work, household, and personal items involved are: medical bills, newspaper subscriptions, school books, list of supplies for building a house, materials needed for wedding gown, parasol, whale bones, and lock \u0026 bolt. Family members mentioned are: W. Garth, Miss E. Garth, Mrs. E. Marth, Mrs. J. Garth, Jesse Garth, and Jesse Garth \"senior\". 87 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: B. Ficklin \u0026 Son; W. Garth; J.C. Lupton; Sample \u0026 Leitch; W. Dawson; N. Burnley; Charles Brown; M.D., A. Watson; B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co.; G.T. Owens; and Deane \u0026 Brown. Among variety of work, household and personal items involved are medical bills, itemized listing of day labor and an order of forks. Family members mentioned are: B.B. Garland, Garland, Mrs. E. B. Garth, Mrs. W. Garth, Elizabeth Garth, J. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 89 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: Jones \u0026 Habban; N. Burnley; B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co.; A. Sample; J.W. Jones; G.T. Owens; Payne \u0026 Novis; G. Moore; and Hassan \u0026 Boyle. Among variety of work, household, and personal items involved are mousetraps and an engraved head and footstone. Family members mentioned are: Miss Garth, Miss E. Garth, Mrs. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 22 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists. Among the items are: hotel bills, blank cashier's check, bill for stable, bill for 18 sq. house, bill for timber, bill for tobacco, freight and commission, various grocery and/or household supply bills, accounts with D \u0026 E Anderson, Weartenbaker, B. Brown, R \u0026 H Neilson, A. Woods, and B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co., blacksmithing and hardware bills, and accounts for Mrs. Garth and a Miss Garth, and various fragments. 60 items.","Garth family accounts with Samuel and James Leitch. Merchandise includes: hardware, dyestuffs, liqour, household goods, gun powder, staples and groceries, stationary, penknives, sewing accessories, various fabrics, books, an entire set of china (including serving dishes), parasol, fiddlestrings, various shoes, gloves, beavermitts, gents' gloves, gentleman's stockings cotton and silk ladies stockings, raisons and a copy of The Virginia Housewife. 19 items.","Scope and Contents Jesse Garth's account book, showing debtors as John Benson, George Wolfe, Elijah Brown, David Isaacs, George Tool, (?) Medener, Abe Norris, Mathew Carsy, Samuel Leitch, N. Watson, (?) Coleman, Gennings Maupin, Lowel Brown, and Francis Dyer. Items involved pertain to lumber and/or farm products. 1 item.","Jesse Garth's accounts with John R. Jones, for a wide variety of personal, household, and hardware merchandise, including: buckskin gloves, coal bellows, vest pattern, parasol, and square iron. 3 items.","Scope and Contents Jess Garth's accounts with Timberlake \u0026 Magruder, for such items as bran, flour, cotton bales, plaster, freight, and drayage. 5 items","Jesse Garth's accounts with Beverly Blair, pertaining to tobacco trade. 4 items.","Scope and Contents Jesse Garth's Accounts with B. \u0026 J. Moseley, for a variety of household goods; grocery items and sewing and fabric accessories. 6 items.","Jesse Garth's accounts with William W. Via, for a variety of customized blacksmithing products. 8 items.","Garth Family documents of the enslaved. Predominately bills of sale listing names of sellers, amount paid, date of purchase, and enslaved names and/or ages. Also, a note of Jesse and Brightberry Garth as cosigners of loan for Jesse B. Garth. Also, a bill of hire for three enslaved persons for a month. 14 items.","Garth Family land Records. Include land deeds, surveys, plats and court hearings. 20 items.","Jesse Garth's tax receipts, indicating rate of millage and total due. Majority are handwritten, although a number of printed blanks are included. Several paid by Elizabeth Garth. 86 items.","Payments ordered by county and/or supreme courts to be made by Jesse Garth. 22 items.","Scope and Contents Miscellaneous documents involve: a list of boarders compiled for Miss Sarah A.J. Garth (n.d.); an inventory of books (n.d.); a Whig election ticket for 1851; a tanning recipe; a recipe for tomato catsup; a recipe for curing rheumatic pains; and an inventory of \"grandmama's things belonging to the house\" by Jesse T.(?) Garth. 8 items.","Miscellaneous documents within the collection but as yet uncertain of relationship to the Garth family include: Henry Mill's 1816 account with Bezaleel Brown; George Williams' accounts with Samuel Leitch, 1824-1829; William Garland's July 1823 fine by the clerk of Albemarle Co., receipts by Benjamin Brown and John H. Craven; land patent on April 1, 1864, for Christian M. Shafer and C.P. Matthews; April 10, 1868, application for patent generating gas; and agreement to sale of land on April 11, 1872. 8 items.","Legal documents pertaining to a variety of concerns such as: George Gentry's will; subpoenas; description of trial proceedings; copies of court proceedings; legal advice; guardianship records; a copy of John W. Grover's will, stock certificate for the James River and Kanawha and Co. 19 items.","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","Garth family","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 G19","/repositories/2/resources/8486"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Garth Family papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Garth Family papers"],"collection_ssim":["Garth Family papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Albemarle County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"geogname_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"places_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"access_terms_ssm":["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."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchase"],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture--Virginia--19th century","Legal documents","Schools--Virginia--Albemarle County","Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century","Suicide","United States--History--War of 1812","Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions","Cotton growing -- Southern States","Cotton growing -- United States","Slaves -- Emancipation","Correspondence","Financial records"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture--Virginia--19th century","Legal documents","Schools--Virginia--Albemarle County","Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century","Suicide","United States--History--War of 1812","Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions","Cotton growing -- Southern States","Cotton growing -- United States","Slaves -- Emancipation","Correspondence","Financial records"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["2.50 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["2.50 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Correspondence","Financial records"],"date_range_isim":[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],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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B. Garth, fl. 1820-1849; Sarah Garth Goodman, fl. 1820-1842; Jesse B. Garth, fl. 1833-1834; and May S. Garth Sumner, fl. 1849-1851, as well as other nephews and family members.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther materials include accounts from business and legal acquaintances in the Richmond and Charlottesville, Va. areas. The subject matter in these letters pertain to agricultural and business matters, the War of 1812, slavery, emancipation, land transactions, schools, and legal concerns. Also included is a suicide note dated, 30 June 1835.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes defeat of British in \"Canady\" and valor of Jo(h)nson's Regiment of mounted militia against the British regulars; tells of cowardice of Proctor (?); relates death of \"Tecomse\" (sic) (Tecumseh) by severely wounded Col. T. Jo(h)nson; hopes government will now support the war \"hart and hand\"; send regards to various friends; Jo(h)nson expected to recover; twenty men lost in the charge; mentions upcoming marriage of Rodes Garth and \"Mis Carigan\"; asks after brother, Elijah. 4pp. ALS. Including typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes prospects in Alabama; things hard as cotton prices down 1/2; provisions quite expensive; sale of public land continues and will during next year; one of his sons could make fortune with only a few hundred dollars in land; poor health has prevented attention to business; reiterates good potential of area; money could be placed in account with E. Anderson in Richmond; 90 days would be enough time for son to arrive, choose land, and make arrangements; life at first would be rought; sends regards to Jesse and his family and his own mother. 3pp. ALS. Including typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Inquires about health; glad to receive letter; hopes own crops do well; corn goes for $.60/bushel and pork for $6.00; everything else \"dull\"; money scarce as time of contraction; inquires if still intends to visit in spring; hard winter sonce Christmas; looks forward to their visit. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Relates information concerning next court date and which session they should plan on attending; requests advice for Adelisa (?) Cooper, young acquaintance who is considering opening a \"female school\" in the Charlottesville area. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In response to his request, has inquired about possible need for a school for women; explains that there are several in the area. 1p. ALS. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Inquires about family's health and Isaac's recovery; compelled to seek loan as saw mill in need of repairs and unable to raise cash; hopes to recover costs within 3 to 4 weeks of operation; Tho(ma)s Garth will give further explanation; letter will serve as bond and receipt until repayment. Receipt of loan acknowledged in writing by Tho(ma)s Garth. In third hand, both Jesse and T. Grath with notations of $50.00 written. 2pp. ALS. Including typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes exact measurements for planks neeeded for roofing materials.1p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his recovery; inquires about family's health; replies to previous question regarding total loans to Jesse; estimates $971.48; would like repayment but is aware of recent misfortunes; own health compells him t oresolve financial matters; is agreeable to suggestion that enslaved persons be repayment. 1p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Realizes own death is near; wants to resolve question of loans as quickly and as easily as possible; if Jesse brings or send it, money should be in N. Carolina bills; if executors call for it, they may demand \"the best money\" as compensation; doesn't mean to alarm him over either loan or impending death; trusts both will be quickly resolved. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Trip home took 22 days due to inclement weather, poor health, and a bad axle; he and Lucy are in good health; she has gained weight; hopes all are well; spring in Kentucky is \"bakcwards\" as tobacco is planted before corn; tobacco in New Orleans is at $4.00 and rising, corn is $1.25/bushel. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives particulars pertaining to upcoming trip to Richmond; invites Sarah to come. 1p. ANS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Arrived last night at cousin Winston Garth's; the axeltree broke again; Aunt Unity (?) is ill; had a daughter nine days ago; the doctor is doubtful of her recovery; Winston at the land sales; will leave in morning to join him as little time to explore the land before the sale starts on the 22nd; trip took 26 days and cost $38.74, besides swapping horses as mentioned previously; horses are fine; averaged 23 or24 miles/day; met many old acquaintances on way; met Rowland Gouch near Huntsville, who used to live at the Barracks (?) and knew everybody in Albemarle; corn crops in Virginia surpass those elsewhere; cotton does well in some areas and less well in others. 2pp. ALS. Including ANS from Susan Garth, Morgan Co., Alabama, to her parents (in-law), Jesse Garth and wife, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 7, 1833, concerning trip; describes Aunt Unity's condition; please pass on news to her own parents; won't write until Jesse B. returns and situation with Aunt Unity resolved. 1p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerned that has had no reply to letters since left Virginia; dissapointed that country site was not at Walker; choice was result of speculation only; unpopularity will end in petition to change it at next legislative meeting; party spirit runs high; strongest party is Constitutional Nullifiers; offered $6.00/acre; had paid $1.50/acre; will soon sell; intends to join Winston Garth in Chickasaw land sale in summer and fall; describes area and its name; extremely wet winter and spring; much livestock drowned and many roads closed; warns brothers no to be partners with William (?) Garth, as he only wants their money and has since caused own trouble with Winston; requests any old accounts to be settled and money forwarded; health is good, hopes some will move out to good farm land and horses. 3pp. ALS. Including ANS from Susan Garth, Okachickoma, Yalabusha Co., Mississippi, to parents (in-law) Jesse Garth and wife, Charlottesville, Virginia, concerning cost of living and decision to teach; thinks have done well for first year; she and sister (?) Polly miss family. 1p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Suicide note copied by Julius A. Harris for Jesse Garth. Letter explains reasons for action- her reaction to his confession of lying about buying paintings prevented him from relating details of lie about buying furniture; never had the money and unable to borrow it from friends or relatives; apologizes for the anguish has caused; her love, generosity, and affection are not enough to balance his deception; asks for forgiveness; explains his lies were never intended to be painful or deceptive; he only wanted her to be happy and has sincerely loved her; advises her to ask Mr. Cock to take her and children to Nelson, (Kentucky?) immediately. 2ppp. ACYS of ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Empathizes with sister's dental discomforts and gives advice; describes own health; reassures mother (in-law?) about her weight; asks after Sarah; describes baby son, Egbert, about his growth and achievements; describes spring and garden produce; agree would be nice to live closer to family, but accepts the situation; asks parents and sibling to visit. 3pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily recovering from the measles; concerned that brother and his family may move to Florida; sends condolences to enslaved person named Johnson, little news other than domestic concerns; misses family and hopes to see them but uncertain of when could visit; likens baby daughter Elizabeth to other relatives; asks parents to address next letter to husband, J. Goodman, if they want J. to write them in return. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expresses relief at news that mother-in-law (Elizabeth) is recovering; announces recent birth of daughter, as yet unnamed; relates prince of produce; has gotten letter from Uncle Garland that father's estate had finally been settled; asks him to verify the information as a business prospect depends on the amount he'd receive; comments that he hopes Thomas G. is no longer an ardent Jackson-Van Buren adherent; asks that the letter be forwarded to his father-in-law, Jesse Garth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes recent business trip which included stops in New Orleans, Mobile, Selma, Tuscaloosa, Greensboro, Huntsville, and Nashville; relates many failures due to first high land prices then a sharp fall; describes own prospects and estimates own profits; requests Jesse and Uncle Briteberry inquire about possibility of sending his cattle to New York; relates family news. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Relates incident of son (?), Sam's accident with hastily loaded wagon of logs and his suprising survival; asks if Jesse has any interest in buying team of mules and gives price he'd consider; inquires after mother and sister (Elizabeth?). 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes recent weather and speculates on harvest; describes political excitement over issue of emancipation; explains why he believes it won't pass; asks for news about family friend, May Summer; discusses cholera experience; exchanges family news. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses plans to visit parents in late fall or early winter; describes crops and estimates profits; expresses concern for brother's salvation. 2pp. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Business correspondence with various merchants predominately in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as Milton, Bourbon Co,. Kentucky Correspondents include: Anderson \u0026amp; Blair; D \u0026amp; E Anderson; Edward Anderson; John Cothrac (?); Anderson \u0026amp; Woodson; Luther W. George; Anderson, Wookson, \u0026amp; Bigges; Thomas Gilmer; A.F. Bigges; Anderson, Blair, \u0026amp; Anderson; B. Brown, Jr.; and J. Garth. Contentd pertain to various concerns, such as prices of commodities, sale of farm produce, tobacco trading, loans, banking matters, accounts with company, establishing a neighborhood school, opening a new store, and payment of accounts. 29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Business correspondence with various merchants predominately in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as Hydraulic Mills, Virginia Correspondents include: Blair \u0026amp; Anderson; Beverly Blair; Deane \u0026amp; Edwards; John D. Brown (?); Charles Brown; Robert Enrastreny (?); Andrews Samper (?); Deane \u0026amp; Brown; B.C. Flannagan; James O. Walters; W. \u0026amp; B. Brown; T. Garth; W. Hatch; and N. N. Wallace. Contents pertain to various concerns, such as accounts with company, tobacco trading, prices of commmodities, sale of cattle, land question, fabric patterns and types, arranging delivery of dairy products with neighbor, proposal to burn (for clearing purposes) adjoining lands by a neighbor, information about sale of farm produce, and possible lumbering information. 23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse Garth's promissory notes, loans, and acknowledgements of debts. 115 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for payments made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 98 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for payments made by either Jesse, Elizabeth, or Brightberry Garth. 78 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for payments made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 68 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 121 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts and bills, with various creditors, including: Brown, River, \u0026amp;Co.; Brown, Watson, \u0026amp; Co.; William Galt; James Horsley; Richard Bibb; J. Kelly \u0026amp; Co.; and James \u0026amp; Samuel Leitch for such items as paper, a variety of fabrics, sewing accessories, liquor, farmwork, household goods, staples (i.e. coffee, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, pepper, spices.), hardware, shoes, a shawl, suspenders, exercise book, New York Reader, and tobacco trade. Family members mentioned are J., John, Jesse, and W. Garth. 45 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists, with various creditors, including: R. Anderson, Asa Davey, S.F. Hoy, Branham \u0026amp; Jones, John H. Craven, David Owens, Abraham Johnson, Anderson \u0026amp; Blair, Charles Brown, M.D., James \u0026amp; Samuel Leitch. Items involved included farm labor, building materials and supplies for house, partial total of year's produce, tobacco trade, day work at lumbermill and blacksmithing. Purchases include steel, iron, farm implements, horse furniture, liqour, household goods, staples (i.e. salt, spices, loaf suger, coffee.), necklace, tortoise comb, glass lens, various types shoes, various fabrics, sewing accessories, gloves, blankets, brrass candlesticks, razor, suspenders, dressing glass, china coffee cups, serving bowls, wine glasses, tumblers, and various school books. Family members mentioned include Thomas, Sarah Anne, Polly, \"son Jesse\", Brightberry B., \"Bez'l\", Garland, and Jesse Garth. 59 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists with various creditors, including: Edmund Anderson; John Winn; Kelly \u0026amp; Norris; Jesse Lewis; David Owens; Branham \u0026amp; Bibb; John C. St. John; Anderson, Woodson, \u0026amp; Bigges; Joseph Bishop; George Wolfe; Luther W. George; David Isaacs; George Toole; Joel W. Brown; and G.W. Vaughan. Items involved include: tobacco trade, blacksmithing, labor, house rent, bill of sale for the \"Miller Mare\", and (apparently) stud service. Purchases include: household goods, hardware, iron, timber, leather and leather goods, liqour, shoes, gloves, sewing accessories, various fabrics, cotton stockings, tea set, staples (i.e. spices, loaf sugar, salt, coffee, tea), cigars, and books (English Reader, Picketts Expositor and Goldsmith's English). Family members mentioned are B., Jesse, W., Thomas (son), Brightberry (son), Thomas G., W. David, and James F Garth. 68 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors, including: Anderson, Woodson, \u0026amp; Bigges; John Gay; John Shiflete; Samuel Dumul (?); Joseph Robinson; M.E. Kelly, N. Barksdale, Dabney Madison; W. Snyder; Jacob C. Lupiton; and Louis Leschot. Items include: iron, tobacco trade, staples (i.e. coffe, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, spices), books (Christian's Blackstone, Tate's Digest, Wheaton's, Hall's Digested Index, dicitionary, copybook, geography and atlas), various fabrics and sewing accessories. Women's account with Jane Isaacs for dresses, bonnets, ostrich feathers, various fabrics, and patterns. Family members include T.G., Lucy E.B., and Mrs. and Mr. Jesse Garth. 49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: N. Burnley; W. Dawson; B. Ficklin \u0026amp; Son; J.C. Lupton; E. Hansbarger; Beverley Blair; E \u0026amp; J Mosely; W. Fellows; E.L. Watson \u0026amp; Co.; Michie \u0026amp; Madison; Timberlake \u0026amp; Magruder; J \u0026amp; S Leicht; and Louis Leschot. Among variety of work, household, and personal items involved are: medical bills, newspaper subscriptions, school books, list of supplies for building a house, materials needed for wedding gown, parasol, whale bones, and lock \u0026amp; bolt. Family members mentioned are: W. Garth, Miss E. Garth, Mrs. E. Marth, Mrs. J. Garth, Jesse Garth, and Jesse Garth \"senior\". 87 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: B. Ficklin \u0026amp; Son; W. Garth; J.C. Lupton; Sample \u0026amp; Leitch; W. Dawson; N. Burnley; Charles Brown; M.D., A. Watson; B.C. Flannagan \u0026amp; Co.; G.T. Owens; and Deane \u0026amp; Brown. Among variety of work, household and personal items involved are medical bills, itemized listing of day labor and an order of forks. Family members mentioned are: B.B. Garland, Garland, Mrs. E. B. Garth, Mrs. W. Garth, Elizabeth Garth, J. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 89 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: Jones \u0026amp; Habban; N. Burnley; B.C. Flannagan \u0026amp; Co.; A. Sample; J.W. Jones; G.T. Owens; Payne \u0026amp; Novis; G. Moore; and Hassan \u0026amp; Boyle. Among variety of work, household, and personal items involved are mousetraps and an engraved head and footstone. Family members mentioned are: Miss Garth, Miss E. Garth, Mrs. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists. Among the items are: hotel bills, blank cashier's check, bill for stable, bill for 18 sq. house, bill for timber, bill for tobacco, freight and commission, various grocery and/or household supply bills, accounts with D \u0026amp; E Anderson, Weartenbaker, B. Brown, R \u0026amp; H Neilson, A. Woods, and B.C. Flannagan \u0026amp; Co., blacksmithing and hardware bills, and accounts for Mrs. Garth and a Miss Garth, and various fragments. 60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGarth family accounts with Samuel and James Leitch. Merchandise includes: hardware, dyestuffs, liqour, household goods, gun powder, staples and groceries, stationary, penknives, sewing accessories, various fabrics, books, an entire set of china (including serving dishes), parasol, fiddlestrings, various shoes, gloves, beavermitts, gents' gloves, gentleman's stockings cotton and silk ladies stockings, raisons and a copy of The Virginia Housewife. 19 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Jesse Garth's account book, showing debtors as John Benson, George Wolfe, Elijah Brown, David Isaacs, George Tool, (?) Medener, Abe Norris, Mathew Carsy, Samuel Leitch, N. Watson, (?) Coleman, Gennings Maupin, Lowel Brown, and Francis Dyer. Items involved pertain to lumber and/or farm products. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse Garth's accounts with John R. Jones, for a wide variety of personal, household, and hardware merchandise, including: buckskin gloves, coal bellows, vest pattern, parasol, and square iron. 3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Jess Garth's accounts with Timberlake \u0026amp; Magruder, for such items as bran, flour, cotton bales, plaster, freight, and drayage. 5 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse Garth's accounts with Beverly Blair, pertaining to tobacco trade. 4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Jesse Garth's Accounts with B. \u0026amp; J. Moseley, for a variety of household goods; grocery items and sewing and fabric accessories. 6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse Garth's accounts with William W. Via, for a variety of customized blacksmithing products. 8 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGarth Family documents of the enslaved. Predominately bills of sale listing names of sellers, amount paid, date of purchase, and enslaved names and/or ages. Also, a note of Jesse and Brightberry Garth as cosigners of loan for Jesse B. Garth. Also, a bill of hire for three enslaved persons for a month. 14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGarth Family land Records. Include land deeds, surveys, plats and court hearings. 20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse Garth's tax receipts, indicating rate of millage and total due. Majority are handwritten, although a number of printed blanks are included. Several paid by Elizabeth Garth. 86 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayments ordered by county and/or supreme courts to be made by Jesse Garth. 22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Miscellaneous documents involve: a list of boarders compiled for Miss Sarah A.J. Garth (n.d.); an inventory of books (n.d.); a Whig election ticket for 1851; a tanning recipe; a recipe for tomato catsup; a recipe for curing rheumatic pains; and an inventory of \"grandmama's things belonging to the house\" by Jesse T.(?) Garth. 8 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous documents within the collection but as yet uncertain of relationship to the Garth family include: Henry Mill's 1816 account with Bezaleel Brown; George Williams' accounts with Samuel Leitch, 1824-1829; William Garland's July 1823 fine by the clerk of Albemarle Co., receipts by Benjamin Brown and John H. Craven; land patent on April 1, 1864, for Christian M. Shafer and C.P. Matthews; April 10, 1868, application for patent generating gas; and agreement to sale of land on April 11, 1872. 8 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents pertaining to a variety of concerns such as: George Gentry's will; subpoenas; description of trial proceedings; copies of court proceedings; legal advice; guardianship records; a copy of John W. Grover's will, stock certificate for the James River and Kanawha and Co. 19 items.\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","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","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":["This inventory contains personal and buisness correspondence, financial documents, loans, promissory notes, legal documents, tax information, and land records belonging to the Jesse Garth family of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, The majority of the inventory documents correspondence chiefly from 1800-1854 between family members, mostly the adult children of Jesse and Elizabeth Garth, fl. 1798-1854, especially Lucy E. B. Garth, fl. 1820-1849; Sarah Garth Goodman, fl. 1820-1842; Jesse B. Garth, fl. 1833-1834; and May S. Garth Sumner, fl. 1849-1851, as well as other nephews and family members.","Other materials include accounts from business and legal acquaintances in the Richmond and Charlottesville, Va. areas. The subject matter in these letters pertain to agricultural and business matters, the War of 1812, slavery, emancipation, land transactions, schools, and legal concerns. Also included is a suicide note dated, 30 June 1835.","Scope and Contents Describes defeat of British in \"Canady\" and valor of Jo(h)nson's Regiment of mounted militia against the British regulars; tells of cowardice of Proctor (?); relates death of \"Tecomse\" (sic) (Tecumseh) by severely wounded Col. T. Jo(h)nson; hopes government will now support the war \"hart and hand\"; send regards to various friends; Jo(h)nson expected to recover; twenty men lost in the charge; mentions upcoming marriage of Rodes Garth and \"Mis Carigan\"; asks after brother, Elijah. 4pp. ALS. Including typescript.","Scope and Contents Describes prospects in Alabama; things hard as cotton prices down 1/2; provisions quite expensive; sale of public land continues and will during next year; one of his sons could make fortune with only a few hundred dollars in land; poor health has prevented attention to business; reiterates good potential of area; money could be placed in account with E. Anderson in Richmond; 90 days would be enough time for son to arrive, choose land, and make arrangements; life at first would be rought; sends regards to Jesse and his family and his own mother. 3pp. ALS. Including typescript.","Scope and Contents Inquires about health; glad to receive letter; hopes own crops do well; corn goes for $.60/bushel and pork for $6.00; everything else \"dull\"; money scarce as time of contraction; inquires if still intends to visit in spring; hard winter sonce Christmas; looks forward to their visit. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Relates information concerning next court date and which session they should plan on attending; requests advice for Adelisa (?) Cooper, young acquaintance who is considering opening a \"female school\" in the Charlottesville area. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents In response to his request, has inquired about possible need for a school for women; explains that there are several in the area. 1p. ALS. Incomplete.","Scope and Contents Inquires about family's health and Isaac's recovery; compelled to seek loan as saw mill in need of repairs and unable to raise cash; hopes to recover costs within 3 to 4 weeks of operation; Tho(ma)s Garth will give further explanation; letter will serve as bond and receipt until repayment. Receipt of loan acknowledged in writing by Tho(ma)s Garth. In third hand, both Jesse and T. Grath with notations of $50.00 written. 2pp. ALS. Including typescript.","Describes exact measurements for planks neeeded for roofing materials.1p. ALS.","Discusses his recovery; inquires about family's health; replies to previous question regarding total loans to Jesse; estimates $971.48; would like repayment but is aware of recent misfortunes; own health compells him t oresolve financial matters; is agreeable to suggestion that enslaved persons be repayment. 1p. ALS.","Scope and Contents Realizes own death is near; wants to resolve question of loans as quickly and as easily as possible; if Jesse brings or send it, money should be in N. Carolina bills; if executors call for it, they may demand \"the best money\" as compensation; doesn't mean to alarm him over either loan or impending death; trusts both will be quickly resolved. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Trip home took 22 days due to inclement weather, poor health, and a bad axle; he and Lucy are in good health; she has gained weight; hopes all are well; spring in Kentucky is \"bakcwards\" as tobacco is planted before corn; tobacco in New Orleans is at $4.00 and rising, corn is $1.25/bushel. 2pp. ALS.","Gives particulars pertaining to upcoming trip to Richmond; invites Sarah to come. 1p. ANS.","Scope and Contents Arrived last night at cousin Winston Garth's; the axeltree broke again; Aunt Unity (?) is ill; had a daughter nine days ago; the doctor is doubtful of her recovery; Winston at the land sales; will leave in morning to join him as little time to explore the land before the sale starts on the 22nd; trip took 26 days and cost $38.74, besides swapping horses as mentioned previously; horses are fine; averaged 23 or24 miles/day; met many old acquaintances on way; met Rowland Gouch near Huntsville, who used to live at the Barracks (?) and knew everybody in Albemarle; corn crops in Virginia surpass those elsewhere; cotton does well in some areas and less well in others. 2pp. ALS. Including ANS from Susan Garth, Morgan Co., Alabama, to her parents (in-law), Jesse Garth and wife, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 7, 1833, concerning trip; describes Aunt Unity's condition; please pass on news to her own parents; won't write until Jesse B. returns and situation with Aunt Unity resolved. 1p.","Scope and Contents Concerned that has had no reply to letters since left Virginia; dissapointed that country site was not at Walker; choice was result of speculation only; unpopularity will end in petition to change it at next legislative meeting; party spirit runs high; strongest party is Constitutional Nullifiers; offered $6.00/acre; had paid $1.50/acre; will soon sell; intends to join Winston Garth in Chickasaw land sale in summer and fall; describes area and its name; extremely wet winter and spring; much livestock drowned and many roads closed; warns brothers no to be partners with William (?) Garth, as he only wants their money and has since caused own trouble with Winston; requests any old accounts to be settled and money forwarded; health is good, hopes some will move out to good farm land and horses. 3pp. ALS. Including ANS from Susan Garth, Okachickoma, Yalabusha Co., Mississippi, to parents (in-law) Jesse Garth and wife, Charlottesville, Virginia, concerning cost of living and decision to teach; thinks have done well for first year; she and sister (?) Polly miss family. 1p.","Scope and Contents Suicide note copied by Julius A. Harris for Jesse Garth. Letter explains reasons for action- her reaction to his confession of lying about buying paintings prevented him from relating details of lie about buying furniture; never had the money and unable to borrow it from friends or relatives; apologizes for the anguish has caused; her love, generosity, and affection are not enough to balance his deception; asks for forgiveness; explains his lies were never intended to be painful or deceptive; he only wanted her to be happy and has sincerely loved her; advises her to ask Mr. Cock to take her and children to Nelson, (Kentucky?) immediately. 2ppp. ACYS of ALS.","Scope and Contents Empathizes with sister's dental discomforts and gives advice; describes own health; reassures mother (in-law?) about her weight; asks after Sarah; describes baby son, Egbert, about his growth and achievements; describes spring and garden produce; agree would be nice to live closer to family, but accepts the situation; asks parents and sibling to visit. 3pp. ALS.","Family recovering from the measles; concerned that brother and his family may move to Florida; sends condolences to enslaved person named Johnson, little news other than domestic concerns; misses family and hopes to see them but uncertain of when could visit; likens baby daughter Elizabeth to other relatives; asks parents to address next letter to husband, J. Goodman, if they want J. to write them in return. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Expresses relief at news that mother-in-law (Elizabeth) is recovering; announces recent birth of daughter, as yet unnamed; relates prince of produce; has gotten letter from Uncle Garland that father's estate had finally been settled; asks him to verify the information as a business prospect depends on the amount he'd receive; comments that he hopes Thomas G. is no longer an ardent Jackson-Van Buren adherent; asks that the letter be forwarded to his father-in-law, Jesse Garth.","Describes recent business trip which included stops in New Orleans, Mobile, Selma, Tuscaloosa, Greensboro, Huntsville, and Nashville; relates many failures due to first high land prices then a sharp fall; describes own prospects and estimates own profits; requests Jesse and Uncle Briteberry inquire about possibility of sending his cattle to New York; relates family news. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Relates incident of son (?), Sam's accident with hastily loaded wagon of logs and his suprising survival; asks if Jesse has any interest in buying team of mules and gives price he'd consider; inquires after mother and sister (Elizabeth?). 2pp. ALS.","Describes recent weather and speculates on harvest; describes political excitement over issue of emancipation; explains why he believes it won't pass; asks for news about family friend, May Summer; discusses cholera experience; exchanges family news. 2pp. ALS.","Discusses plans to visit parents in late fall or early winter; describes crops and estimates profits; expresses concern for brother's salvation. 2pp. Incomplete.","Scope and Contents Business correspondence with various merchants predominately in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as Milton, Bourbon Co,. Kentucky Correspondents include: Anderson \u0026 Blair; D \u0026 E Anderson; Edward Anderson; John Cothrac (?); Anderson \u0026 Woodson; Luther W. George; Anderson, Wookson, \u0026 Bigges; Thomas Gilmer; A.F. Bigges; Anderson, Blair, \u0026 Anderson; B. Brown, Jr.; and J. Garth. Contentd pertain to various concerns, such as prices of commodities, sale of farm produce, tobacco trading, loans, banking matters, accounts with company, establishing a neighborhood school, opening a new store, and payment of accounts. 29 items.","Scope and Contents Business correspondence with various merchants predominately in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as Hydraulic Mills, Virginia Correspondents include: Blair \u0026 Anderson; Beverly Blair; Deane \u0026 Edwards; John D. Brown (?); Charles Brown; Robert Enrastreny (?); Andrews Samper (?); Deane \u0026 Brown; B.C. Flannagan; James O. Walters; W. \u0026 B. Brown; T. Garth; W. Hatch; and N. N. Wallace. Contents pertain to various concerns, such as accounts with company, tobacco trading, prices of commmodities, sale of cattle, land question, fabric patterns and types, arranging delivery of dairy products with neighbor, proposal to burn (for clearing purposes) adjoining lands by a neighbor, information about sale of farm produce, and possible lumbering information. 23 items.","Jesse Garth's promissory notes, loans, and acknowledgements of debts. 115 items.","Receipts for payments made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 98 items.","Receipts for payments made by either Jesse, Elizabeth, or Brightberry Garth. 78 items.","Receipts for payments made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 68 items.","Receipts made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 121 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills, with various creditors, including: Brown, River, \u0026Co.; Brown, Watson, \u0026 Co.; William Galt; James Horsley; Richard Bibb; J. Kelly \u0026 Co.; and James \u0026 Samuel Leitch for such items as paper, a variety of fabrics, sewing accessories, liquor, farmwork, household goods, staples (i.e. coffee, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, pepper, spices.), hardware, shoes, a shawl, suspenders, exercise book, New York Reader, and tobacco trade. Family members mentioned are J., John, Jesse, and W. Garth. 45 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists, with various creditors, including: R. Anderson, Asa Davey, S.F. Hoy, Branham \u0026 Jones, John H. Craven, David Owens, Abraham Johnson, Anderson \u0026 Blair, Charles Brown, M.D., James \u0026 Samuel Leitch. Items involved included farm labor, building materials and supplies for house, partial total of year's produce, tobacco trade, day work at lumbermill and blacksmithing. Purchases include steel, iron, farm implements, horse furniture, liqour, household goods, staples (i.e. salt, spices, loaf suger, coffee.), necklace, tortoise comb, glass lens, various types shoes, various fabrics, sewing accessories, gloves, blankets, brrass candlesticks, razor, suspenders, dressing glass, china coffee cups, serving bowls, wine glasses, tumblers, and various school books. Family members mentioned include Thomas, Sarah Anne, Polly, \"son Jesse\", Brightberry B., \"Bez'l\", Garland, and Jesse Garth. 59 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists with various creditors, including: Edmund Anderson; John Winn; Kelly \u0026 Norris; Jesse Lewis; David Owens; Branham \u0026 Bibb; John C. St. John; Anderson, Woodson, \u0026 Bigges; Joseph Bishop; George Wolfe; Luther W. George; David Isaacs; George Toole; Joel W. Brown; and G.W. Vaughan. Items involved include: tobacco trade, blacksmithing, labor, house rent, bill of sale for the \"Miller Mare\", and (apparently) stud service. Purchases include: household goods, hardware, iron, timber, leather and leather goods, liqour, shoes, gloves, sewing accessories, various fabrics, cotton stockings, tea set, staples (i.e. spices, loaf sugar, salt, coffee, tea), cigars, and books (English Reader, Picketts Expositor and Goldsmith's English). Family members mentioned are B., Jesse, W., Thomas (son), Brightberry (son), Thomas G., W. David, and James F Garth. 68 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors, including: Anderson, Woodson, \u0026 Bigges; John Gay; John Shiflete; Samuel Dumul (?); Joseph Robinson; M.E. Kelly, N. Barksdale, Dabney Madison; W. Snyder; Jacob C. Lupiton; and Louis Leschot. Items include: iron, tobacco trade, staples (i.e. coffe, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, spices), books (Christian's Blackstone, Tate's Digest, Wheaton's, Hall's Digested Index, dicitionary, copybook, geography and atlas), various fabrics and sewing accessories. Women's account with Jane Isaacs for dresses, bonnets, ostrich feathers, various fabrics, and patterns. Family members include T.G., Lucy E.B., and Mrs. and Mr. Jesse Garth. 49 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: N. Burnley; W. Dawson; B. Ficklin \u0026 Son; J.C. Lupton; E. Hansbarger; Beverley Blair; E \u0026 J Mosely; W. Fellows; E.L. Watson \u0026 Co.; Michie \u0026 Madison; Timberlake \u0026 Magruder; J \u0026 S Leicht; and Louis Leschot. Among variety of work, household, and personal items involved are: medical bills, newspaper subscriptions, school books, list of supplies for building a house, materials needed for wedding gown, parasol, whale bones, and lock \u0026 bolt. Family members mentioned are: W. Garth, Miss E. Garth, Mrs. E. Marth, Mrs. J. Garth, Jesse Garth, and Jesse Garth \"senior\". 87 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: B. Ficklin \u0026 Son; W. Garth; J.C. Lupton; Sample \u0026 Leitch; W. Dawson; N. Burnley; Charles Brown; M.D., A. Watson; B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co.; G.T. Owens; and Deane \u0026 Brown. Among variety of work, household and personal items involved are medical bills, itemized listing of day labor and an order of forks. Family members mentioned are: B.B. Garland, Garland, Mrs. E. B. Garth, Mrs. W. Garth, Elizabeth Garth, J. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 89 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: Jones \u0026 Habban; N. Burnley; B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co.; A. Sample; J.W. Jones; G.T. Owens; Payne \u0026 Novis; G. Moore; and Hassan \u0026 Boyle. Among variety of work, household, and personal items involved are mousetraps and an engraved head and footstone. Family members mentioned are: Miss Garth, Miss E. Garth, Mrs. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 22 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists. Among the items are: hotel bills, blank cashier's check, bill for stable, bill for 18 sq. house, bill for timber, bill for tobacco, freight and commission, various grocery and/or household supply bills, accounts with D \u0026 E Anderson, Weartenbaker, B. Brown, R \u0026 H Neilson, A. Woods, and B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co., blacksmithing and hardware bills, and accounts for Mrs. Garth and a Miss Garth, and various fragments. 60 items.","Garth family accounts with Samuel and James Leitch. Merchandise includes: hardware, dyestuffs, liqour, household goods, gun powder, staples and groceries, stationary, penknives, sewing accessories, various fabrics, books, an entire set of china (including serving dishes), parasol, fiddlestrings, various shoes, gloves, beavermitts, gents' gloves, gentleman's stockings cotton and silk ladies stockings, raisons and a copy of The Virginia Housewife. 19 items.","Scope and Contents Jesse Garth's account book, showing debtors as John Benson, George Wolfe, Elijah Brown, David Isaacs, George Tool, (?) Medener, Abe Norris, Mathew Carsy, Samuel Leitch, N. Watson, (?) Coleman, Gennings Maupin, Lowel Brown, and Francis Dyer. Items involved pertain to lumber and/or farm products. 1 item.","Jesse Garth's accounts with John R. Jones, for a wide variety of personal, household, and hardware merchandise, including: buckskin gloves, coal bellows, vest pattern, parasol, and square iron. 3 items.","Scope and Contents Jess Garth's accounts with Timberlake \u0026 Magruder, for such items as bran, flour, cotton bales, plaster, freight, and drayage. 5 items","Jesse Garth's accounts with Beverly Blair, pertaining to tobacco trade. 4 items.","Scope and Contents Jesse Garth's Accounts with B. \u0026 J. Moseley, for a variety of household goods; grocery items and sewing and fabric accessories. 6 items.","Jesse Garth's accounts with William W. Via, for a variety of customized blacksmithing products. 8 items.","Garth Family documents of the enslaved. Predominately bills of sale listing names of sellers, amount paid, date of purchase, and enslaved names and/or ages. Also, a note of Jesse and Brightberry Garth as cosigners of loan for Jesse B. Garth. Also, a bill of hire for three enslaved persons for a month. 14 items.","Garth Family land Records. Include land deeds, surveys, plats and court hearings. 20 items.","Jesse Garth's tax receipts, indicating rate of millage and total due. Majority are handwritten, although a number of printed blanks are included. Several paid by Elizabeth Garth. 86 items.","Payments ordered by county and/or supreme courts to be made by Jesse Garth. 22 items.","Scope and Contents Miscellaneous documents involve: a list of boarders compiled for Miss Sarah A.J. Garth (n.d.); an inventory of books (n.d.); a Whig election ticket for 1851; a tanning recipe; a recipe for tomato catsup; a recipe for curing rheumatic pains; and an inventory of \"grandmama's things belonging to the house\" by Jesse T.(?) Garth. 8 items.","Miscellaneous documents within the collection but as yet uncertain of relationship to the Garth family include: Henry Mill's 1816 account with Bezaleel Brown; George Williams' accounts with Samuel Leitch, 1824-1829; William Garland's July 1823 fine by the clerk of Albemarle Co., receipts by Benjamin Brown and John H. Craven; land patent on April 1, 1864, for Christian M. Shafer and C.P. Matthews; April 10, 1868, application for patent generating gas; and agreement to sale of land on April 11, 1872. 8 items.","Legal documents pertaining to a variety of concerns such as: George Gentry's will; subpoenas; description of trial proceedings; copies of court proceedings; legal advice; guardianship records; a copy of John 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.","Organization: This collection is separated into five Series: 1. Correspondence, 2. Financial Records, 3. Legal Records, 4. Miscellaneous Material, 5. Manuscript Volumes. Arrangement: After being organized into Series, each Series is then arranged chronologically by date.","Processed by Madelyn Redd in 1984.","This inventory contains personal and buisness correspondence, financial documents, loans, promissory notes, legal documents, tax information, and land records belonging to the Jesse Garth family of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, The majority of the inventory documents correspondence chiefly from 1800-1854 between family members, mostly the adult children of Jesse and Elizabeth Garth, fl. 1798-1854, especially Lucy E. B. Garth, fl. 1820-1849; Sarah Garth Goodman, fl. 1820-1842; Jesse B. Garth, fl. 1833-1834; and May S. Garth Sumner, fl. 1849-1851, as well as other nephews and family members.","Other materials include accounts from business and legal acquaintances in the Richmond and Charlottesville, Va. areas. The subject matter in these letters pertain to agricultural and business matters, the War of 1812, slavery, emancipation, land transactions, schools, and legal concerns. Also included is a suicide note dated, 30 June 1835.","Scope and Contents Describes defeat of British in \"Canady\" and valor of Jo(h)nson's Regiment of mounted militia against the British regulars; tells of cowardice of Proctor (?); relates death of \"Tecomse\" (sic) (Tecumseh) by severely wounded Col. T. Jo(h)nson; hopes government will now support the war \"hart and hand\"; send regards to various friends; Jo(h)nson expected to recover; twenty men lost in the charge; mentions upcoming marriage of Rodes Garth and \"Mis Carigan\"; asks after brother, Elijah. 4pp. ALS. Including typescript.","Scope and Contents Describes prospects in Alabama; things hard as cotton prices down 1/2; provisions quite expensive; sale of public land continues and will during next year; one of his sons could make fortune with only a few hundred dollars in land; poor health has prevented attention to business; reiterates good potential of area; money could be placed in account with E. Anderson in Richmond; 90 days would be enough time for son to arrive, choose land, and make arrangements; life at first would be rought; sends regards to Jesse and his family and his own mother. 3pp. ALS. Including typescript.","Scope and Contents Inquires about health; glad to receive letter; hopes own crops do well; corn goes for $.60/bushel and pork for $6.00; everything else \"dull\"; money scarce as time of contraction; inquires if still intends to visit in spring; hard winter sonce Christmas; looks forward to their visit. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Relates information concerning next court date and which session they should plan on attending; requests advice for Adelisa (?) Cooper, young acquaintance who is considering opening a \"female school\" in the Charlottesville area. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents In response to his request, has inquired about possible need for a school for women; explains that there are several in the area. 1p. ALS. Incomplete.","Scope and Contents Inquires about family's health and Isaac's recovery; compelled to seek loan as saw mill in need of repairs and unable to raise cash; hopes to recover costs within 3 to 4 weeks of operation; Tho(ma)s Garth will give further explanation; letter will serve as bond and receipt until repayment. Receipt of loan acknowledged in writing by Tho(ma)s Garth. In third hand, both Jesse and T. Grath with notations of $50.00 written. 2pp. ALS. Including typescript.","Describes exact measurements for planks neeeded for roofing materials.1p. ALS.","Discusses his recovery; inquires about family's health; replies to previous question regarding total loans to Jesse; estimates $971.48; would like repayment but is aware of recent misfortunes; own health compells him t oresolve financial matters; is agreeable to suggestion that enslaved persons be repayment. 1p. ALS.","Scope and Contents Realizes own death is near; wants to resolve question of loans as quickly and as easily as possible; if Jesse brings or send it, money should be in N. Carolina bills; if executors call for it, they may demand \"the best money\" as compensation; doesn't mean to alarm him over either loan or impending death; trusts both will be quickly resolved. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Trip home took 22 days due to inclement weather, poor health, and a bad axle; he and Lucy are in good health; she has gained weight; hopes all are well; spring in Kentucky is \"bakcwards\" as tobacco is planted before corn; tobacco in New Orleans is at $4.00 and rising, corn is $1.25/bushel. 2pp. ALS.","Gives particulars pertaining to upcoming trip to Richmond; invites Sarah to come. 1p. ANS.","Scope and Contents Arrived last night at cousin Winston Garth's; the axeltree broke again; Aunt Unity (?) is ill; had a daughter nine days ago; the doctor is doubtful of her recovery; Winston at the land sales; will leave in morning to join him as little time to explore the land before the sale starts on the 22nd; trip took 26 days and cost $38.74, besides swapping horses as mentioned previously; horses are fine; averaged 23 or24 miles/day; met many old acquaintances on way; met Rowland Gouch near Huntsville, who used to live at the Barracks (?) and knew everybody in Albemarle; corn crops in Virginia surpass those elsewhere; cotton does well in some areas and less well in others. 2pp. ALS. Including ANS from Susan Garth, Morgan Co., Alabama, to her parents (in-law), Jesse Garth and wife, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 7, 1833, concerning trip; describes Aunt Unity's condition; please pass on news to her own parents; won't write until Jesse B. returns and situation with Aunt Unity resolved. 1p.","Scope and Contents Concerned that has had no reply to letters since left Virginia; dissapointed that country site was not at Walker; choice was result of speculation only; unpopularity will end in petition to change it at next legislative meeting; party spirit runs high; strongest party is Constitutional Nullifiers; offered $6.00/acre; had paid $1.50/acre; will soon sell; intends to join Winston Garth in Chickasaw land sale in summer and fall; describes area and its name; extremely wet winter and spring; much livestock drowned and many roads closed; warns brothers no to be partners with William (?) Garth, as he only wants their money and has since caused own trouble with Winston; requests any old accounts to be settled and money forwarded; health is good, hopes some will move out to good farm land and horses. 3pp. ALS. Including ANS from Susan Garth, Okachickoma, Yalabusha Co., Mississippi, to parents (in-law) Jesse Garth and wife, Charlottesville, Virginia, concerning cost of living and decision to teach; thinks have done well for first year; she and sister (?) Polly miss family. 1p.","Scope and Contents Suicide note copied by Julius A. Harris for Jesse Garth. Letter explains reasons for action- her reaction to his confession of lying about buying paintings prevented him from relating details of lie about buying furniture; never had the money and unable to borrow it from friends or relatives; apologizes for the anguish has caused; her love, generosity, and affection are not enough to balance his deception; asks for forgiveness; explains his lies were never intended to be painful or deceptive; he only wanted her to be happy and has sincerely loved her; advises her to ask Mr. Cock to take her and children to Nelson, (Kentucky?) immediately. 2ppp. ACYS of ALS.","Scope and Contents Empathizes with sister's dental discomforts and gives advice; describes own health; reassures mother (in-law?) about her weight; asks after Sarah; describes baby son, Egbert, about his growth and achievements; describes spring and garden produce; agree would be nice to live closer to family, but accepts the situation; asks parents and sibling to visit. 3pp. ALS.","Family recovering from the measles; concerned that brother and his family may move to Florida; sends condolences to enslaved person named Johnson, little news other than domestic concerns; misses family and hopes to see them but uncertain of when could visit; likens baby daughter Elizabeth to other relatives; asks parents to address next letter to husband, J. Goodman, if they want J. to write them in return. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Expresses relief at news that mother-in-law (Elizabeth) is recovering; announces recent birth of daughter, as yet unnamed; relates prince of produce; has gotten letter from Uncle Garland that father's estate had finally been settled; asks him to verify the information as a business prospect depends on the amount he'd receive; comments that he hopes Thomas G. is no longer an ardent Jackson-Van Buren adherent; asks that the letter be forwarded to his father-in-law, Jesse Garth.","Describes recent business trip which included stops in New Orleans, Mobile, Selma, Tuscaloosa, Greensboro, Huntsville, and Nashville; relates many failures due to first high land prices then a sharp fall; describes own prospects and estimates own profits; requests Jesse and Uncle Briteberry inquire about possibility of sending his cattle to New York; relates family news. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Relates incident of son (?), Sam's accident with hastily loaded wagon of logs and his suprising survival; asks if Jesse has any interest in buying team of mules and gives price he'd consider; inquires after mother and sister (Elizabeth?). 2pp. ALS.","Describes recent weather and speculates on harvest; describes political excitement over issue of emancipation; explains why he believes it won't pass; asks for news about family friend, May Summer; discusses cholera experience; exchanges family news. 2pp. ALS.","Discusses plans to visit parents in late fall or early winter; describes crops and estimates profits; expresses concern for brother's salvation. 2pp. Incomplete.","Scope and Contents Business correspondence with various merchants predominately in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as Milton, Bourbon Co,. Kentucky Correspondents include: Anderson \u0026 Blair; D \u0026 E Anderson; Edward Anderson; John Cothrac (?); Anderson \u0026 Woodson; Luther W. George; Anderson, Wookson, \u0026 Bigges; Thomas Gilmer; A.F. Bigges; Anderson, Blair, \u0026 Anderson; B. Brown, Jr.; and J. Garth. Contentd pertain to various concerns, such as prices of commodities, sale of farm produce, tobacco trading, loans, banking matters, accounts with company, establishing a neighborhood school, opening a new store, and payment of accounts. 29 items.","Scope and Contents Business correspondence with various merchants predominately in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as Hydraulic Mills, Virginia Correspondents include: Blair \u0026 Anderson; Beverly Blair; Deane \u0026 Edwards; John D. Brown (?); Charles Brown; Robert Enrastreny (?); Andrews Samper (?); Deane \u0026 Brown; B.C. Flannagan; James O. Walters; W. \u0026 B. Brown; T. Garth; W. Hatch; and N. N. Wallace. Contents pertain to various concerns, such as accounts with company, tobacco trading, prices of commmodities, sale of cattle, land question, fabric patterns and types, arranging delivery of dairy products with neighbor, proposal to burn (for clearing purposes) adjoining lands by a neighbor, information about sale of farm produce, and possible lumbering information. 23 items.","Jesse Garth's promissory notes, loans, and acknowledgements of debts. 115 items.","Receipts for payments made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 98 items.","Receipts for payments made by either Jesse, Elizabeth, or Brightberry Garth. 78 items.","Receipts for payments made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 68 items.","Receipts made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 121 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills, with various creditors, including: Brown, River, \u0026Co.; Brown, Watson, \u0026 Co.; William Galt; James Horsley; Richard Bibb; J. Kelly \u0026 Co.; and James \u0026 Samuel Leitch for such items as paper, a variety of fabrics, sewing accessories, liquor, farmwork, household goods, staples (i.e. coffee, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, pepper, spices.), hardware, shoes, a shawl, suspenders, exercise book, New York Reader, and tobacco trade. Family members mentioned are J., John, Jesse, and W. Garth. 45 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists, with various creditors, including: R. Anderson, Asa Davey, S.F. Hoy, Branham \u0026 Jones, John H. Craven, David Owens, Abraham Johnson, Anderson \u0026 Blair, Charles Brown, M.D., James \u0026 Samuel Leitch. Items involved included farm labor, building materials and supplies for house, partial total of year's produce, tobacco trade, day work at lumbermill and blacksmithing. Purchases include steel, iron, farm implements, horse furniture, liqour, household goods, staples (i.e. salt, spices, loaf suger, coffee.), necklace, tortoise comb, glass lens, various types shoes, various fabrics, sewing accessories, gloves, blankets, brrass candlesticks, razor, suspenders, dressing glass, china coffee cups, serving bowls, wine glasses, tumblers, and various school books. Family members mentioned include Thomas, Sarah Anne, Polly, \"son Jesse\", Brightberry B., \"Bez'l\", Garland, and Jesse Garth. 59 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists with various creditors, including: Edmund Anderson; John Winn; Kelly \u0026 Norris; Jesse Lewis; David Owens; Branham \u0026 Bibb; John C. St. John; Anderson, Woodson, \u0026 Bigges; Joseph Bishop; George Wolfe; Luther W. George; David Isaacs; George Toole; Joel W. Brown; and G.W. Vaughan. Items involved include: tobacco trade, blacksmithing, labor, house rent, bill of sale for the \"Miller Mare\", and (apparently) stud service. Purchases include: household goods, hardware, iron, timber, leather and leather goods, liqour, shoes, gloves, sewing accessories, various fabrics, cotton stockings, tea set, staples (i.e. spices, loaf sugar, salt, coffee, tea), cigars, and books (English Reader, Picketts Expositor and Goldsmith's English). Family members mentioned are B., Jesse, W., Thomas (son), Brightberry (son), Thomas G., W. David, and James F Garth. 68 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors, including: Anderson, Woodson, \u0026 Bigges; John Gay; John Shiflete; Samuel Dumul (?); Joseph Robinson; M.E. Kelly, N. Barksdale, Dabney Madison; W. Snyder; Jacob C. Lupiton; and Louis Leschot. Items include: iron, tobacco trade, staples (i.e. coffe, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, spices), books (Christian's Blackstone, Tate's Digest, Wheaton's, Hall's Digested Index, dicitionary, copybook, geography and atlas), various fabrics and sewing accessories. Women's account with Jane Isaacs for dresses, bonnets, ostrich feathers, various fabrics, and patterns. Family members include T.G., Lucy E.B., and Mrs. and Mr. Jesse Garth. 49 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: N. Burnley; W. Dawson; B. Ficklin \u0026 Son; J.C. Lupton; E. Hansbarger; Beverley Blair; E \u0026 J Mosely; W. Fellows; E.L. Watson \u0026 Co.; Michie \u0026 Madison; Timberlake \u0026 Magruder; J \u0026 S Leicht; and Louis Leschot. Among variety of work, household, and personal items involved are: medical bills, newspaper subscriptions, school books, list of supplies for building a house, materials needed for wedding gown, parasol, whale bones, and lock \u0026 bolt. Family members mentioned are: W. Garth, Miss E. Garth, Mrs. E. Marth, Mrs. J. Garth, Jesse Garth, and Jesse Garth \"senior\". 87 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: B. Ficklin \u0026 Son; W. Garth; J.C. Lupton; Sample \u0026 Leitch; W. Dawson; N. Burnley; Charles Brown; M.D., A. Watson; B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co.; G.T. Owens; and Deane \u0026 Brown. Among variety of work, household and personal items involved are medical bills, itemized listing of day labor and an order of forks. Family members mentioned are: B.B. Garland, Garland, Mrs. E. B. Garth, Mrs. W. Garth, Elizabeth Garth, J. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 89 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: Jones \u0026 Habban; N. Burnley; B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co.; A. Sample; J.W. Jones; G.T. Owens; Payne \u0026 Novis; G. Moore; and Hassan \u0026 Boyle. Among variety of work, household, and personal items involved are mousetraps and an engraved head and footstone. Family members mentioned are: Miss Garth, Miss E. Garth, Mrs. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 22 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists. Among the items are: hotel bills, blank cashier's check, bill for stable, bill for 18 sq. house, bill for timber, bill for tobacco, freight and commission, various grocery and/or household supply bills, accounts with D \u0026 E Anderson, Weartenbaker, B. Brown, R \u0026 H Neilson, A. Woods, and B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co., blacksmithing and hardware bills, and accounts for Mrs. Garth and a Miss Garth, and various fragments. 60 items.","Garth family accounts with Samuel and James Leitch. Merchandise includes: hardware, dyestuffs, liqour, household goods, gun powder, staples and groceries, stationary, penknives, sewing accessories, various fabrics, books, an entire set of china (including serving dishes), parasol, fiddlestrings, various shoes, gloves, beavermitts, gents' gloves, gentleman's stockings cotton and silk ladies stockings, raisons and a copy of The Virginia Housewife. 19 items.","Scope and Contents Jesse Garth's account book, showing debtors as John Benson, George Wolfe, Elijah Brown, David Isaacs, George Tool, (?) Medener, Abe Norris, Mathew Carsy, Samuel Leitch, N. Watson, (?) Coleman, Gennings Maupin, Lowel Brown, and Francis Dyer. Items involved pertain to lumber and/or farm products. 1 item.","Jesse Garth's accounts with John R. Jones, for a wide variety of personal, household, and hardware merchandise, including: buckskin gloves, coal bellows, vest pattern, parasol, and square iron. 3 items.","Scope and Contents Jess Garth's accounts with Timberlake \u0026 Magruder, for such items as bran, flour, cotton bales, plaster, freight, and drayage. 5 items","Jesse Garth's accounts with Beverly Blair, pertaining to tobacco trade. 4 items.","Scope and Contents Jesse Garth's Accounts with B. \u0026 J. Moseley, for a variety of household goods; grocery items and sewing and fabric accessories. 6 items.","Jesse Garth's accounts with William W. Via, for a variety of customized blacksmithing products. 8 items.","Garth Family documents of the enslaved. Predominately bills of sale listing names of sellers, amount paid, date of purchase, and enslaved names and/or ages. Also, a note of Jesse and Brightberry Garth as cosigners of loan for Jesse B. Garth. Also, a bill of hire for three enslaved persons for a month. 14 items.","Garth Family land Records. Include land deeds, surveys, plats and court hearings. 20 items.","Jesse Garth's tax receipts, indicating rate of millage and total due. Majority are handwritten, although a number of printed blanks are included. Several paid by Elizabeth Garth. 86 items.","Payments ordered by county and/or supreme courts to be made by Jesse Garth. 22 items.","Scope and Contents Miscellaneous documents involve: a list of boarders compiled for Miss Sarah A.J. Garth (n.d.); an inventory of books (n.d.); a Whig election ticket for 1851; a tanning recipe; a recipe for tomato catsup; a recipe for curing rheumatic pains; and an inventory of \"grandmama's things belonging to the house\" by Jesse T.(?) Garth. 8 items.","Miscellaneous documents within the collection but as yet uncertain of relationship to the Garth family include: Henry Mill's 1816 account with Bezaleel Brown; George Williams' accounts with Samuel Leitch, 1824-1829; William Garland's July 1823 fine by the clerk of Albemarle Co., receipts by Benjamin Brown and John H. Craven; land patent on April 1, 1864, for Christian M. Shafer and C.P. Matthews; April 10, 1868, application for patent generating gas; and agreement to sale of land on April 11, 1872. 8 items.","Legal documents pertaining to a variety of concerns such as: George Gentry's will; subpoenas; description of trial proceedings; copies of court proceedings; legal advice; guardianship records; a copy of John W. Grover's will, stock certificate for the James River and Kanawha and Co. 19 items.","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","Garth family","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 G19","/repositories/2/resources/8486"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Garth Family papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Garth Family papers"],"collection_ssim":["Garth Family papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Albemarle County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"geogname_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"places_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.)--History--19th century","Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century"],"access_terms_ssm":["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."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchase"],"access_subjects_ssim":["Agriculture--Virginia--19th century","Legal documents","Schools--Virginia--Albemarle County","Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century","Suicide","United States--History--War of 1812","Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions","Cotton growing -- Southern States","Cotton growing -- United States","Slaves -- Emancipation","Correspondence","Financial records"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Agriculture--Virginia--19th century","Legal documents","Schools--Virginia--Albemarle County","Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century","Suicide","United States--History--War of 1812","Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions","Cotton growing -- Southern States","Cotton growing -- United States","Slaves -- Emancipation","Correspondence","Financial records"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["2.50 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["2.50 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Correspondence","Financial records"],"date_range_isim":[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],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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B. Garth, fl. 1820-1849; Sarah Garth Goodman, fl. 1820-1842; Jesse B. Garth, fl. 1833-1834; and May S. Garth Sumner, fl. 1849-1851, as well as other nephews and family members.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther materials include accounts from business and legal acquaintances in the Richmond and Charlottesville, Va. areas. The subject matter in these letters pertain to agricultural and business matters, the War of 1812, slavery, emancipation, land transactions, schools, and legal concerns. Also included is a suicide note dated, 30 June 1835.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes defeat of British in \"Canady\" and valor of Jo(h)nson's Regiment of mounted militia against the British regulars; tells of cowardice of Proctor (?); relates death of \"Tecomse\" (sic) (Tecumseh) by severely wounded Col. T. Jo(h)nson; hopes government will now support the war \"hart and hand\"; send regards to various friends; Jo(h)nson expected to recover; twenty men lost in the charge; mentions upcoming marriage of Rodes Garth and \"Mis Carigan\"; asks after brother, Elijah. 4pp. ALS. Including typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes prospects in Alabama; things hard as cotton prices down 1/2; provisions quite expensive; sale of public land continues and will during next year; one of his sons could make fortune with only a few hundred dollars in land; poor health has prevented attention to business; reiterates good potential of area; money could be placed in account with E. Anderson in Richmond; 90 days would be enough time for son to arrive, choose land, and make arrangements; life at first would be rought; sends regards to Jesse and his family and his own mother. 3pp. ALS. Including typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Inquires about health; glad to receive letter; hopes own crops do well; corn goes for $.60/bushel and pork for $6.00; everything else \"dull\"; money scarce as time of contraction; inquires if still intends to visit in spring; hard winter sonce Christmas; looks forward to their visit. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Relates information concerning next court date and which session they should plan on attending; requests advice for Adelisa (?) Cooper, young acquaintance who is considering opening a \"female school\" in the Charlottesville area. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In response to his request, has inquired about possible need for a school for women; explains that there are several in the area. 1p. ALS. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Inquires about family's health and Isaac's recovery; compelled to seek loan as saw mill in need of repairs and unable to raise cash; hopes to recover costs within 3 to 4 weeks of operation; Tho(ma)s Garth will give further explanation; letter will serve as bond and receipt until repayment. Receipt of loan acknowledged in writing by Tho(ma)s Garth. In third hand, both Jesse and T. Grath with notations of $50.00 written. 2pp. ALS. Including typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes exact measurements for planks neeeded for roofing materials.1p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his recovery; inquires about family's health; replies to previous question regarding total loans to Jesse; estimates $971.48; would like repayment but is aware of recent misfortunes; own health compells him t oresolve financial matters; is agreeable to suggestion that enslaved persons be repayment. 1p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Realizes own death is near; wants to resolve question of loans as quickly and as easily as possible; if Jesse brings or send it, money should be in N. Carolina bills; if executors call for it, they may demand \"the best money\" as compensation; doesn't mean to alarm him over either loan or impending death; trusts both will be quickly resolved. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Trip home took 22 days due to inclement weather, poor health, and a bad axle; he and Lucy are in good health; she has gained weight; hopes all are well; spring in Kentucky is \"bakcwards\" as tobacco is planted before corn; tobacco in New Orleans is at $4.00 and rising, corn is $1.25/bushel. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives particulars pertaining to upcoming trip to Richmond; invites Sarah to come. 1p. ANS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Arrived last night at cousin Winston Garth's; the axeltree broke again; Aunt Unity (?) is ill; had a daughter nine days ago; the doctor is doubtful of her recovery; Winston at the land sales; will leave in morning to join him as little time to explore the land before the sale starts on the 22nd; trip took 26 days and cost $38.74, besides swapping horses as mentioned previously; horses are fine; averaged 23 or24 miles/day; met many old acquaintances on way; met Rowland Gouch near Huntsville, who used to live at the Barracks (?) and knew everybody in Albemarle; corn crops in Virginia surpass those elsewhere; cotton does well in some areas and less well in others. 2pp. ALS. Including ANS from Susan Garth, Morgan Co., Alabama, to her parents (in-law), Jesse Garth and wife, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 7, 1833, concerning trip; describes Aunt Unity's condition; please pass on news to her own parents; won't write until Jesse B. returns and situation with Aunt Unity resolved. 1p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Concerned that has had no reply to letters since left Virginia; dissapointed that country site was not at Walker; choice was result of speculation only; unpopularity will end in petition to change it at next legislative meeting; party spirit runs high; strongest party is Constitutional Nullifiers; offered $6.00/acre; had paid $1.50/acre; will soon sell; intends to join Winston Garth in Chickasaw land sale in summer and fall; describes area and its name; extremely wet winter and spring; much livestock drowned and many roads closed; warns brothers no to be partners with William (?) Garth, as he only wants their money and has since caused own trouble with Winston; requests any old accounts to be settled and money forwarded; health is good, hopes some will move out to good farm land and horses. 3pp. ALS. Including ANS from Susan Garth, Okachickoma, Yalabusha Co., Mississippi, to parents (in-law) Jesse Garth and wife, Charlottesville, Virginia, concerning cost of living and decision to teach; thinks have done well for first year; she and sister (?) Polly miss family. 1p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Suicide note copied by Julius A. Harris for Jesse Garth. Letter explains reasons for action- her reaction to his confession of lying about buying paintings prevented him from relating details of lie about buying furniture; never had the money and unable to borrow it from friends or relatives; apologizes for the anguish has caused; her love, generosity, and affection are not enough to balance his deception; asks for forgiveness; explains his lies were never intended to be painful or deceptive; he only wanted her to be happy and has sincerely loved her; advises her to ask Mr. Cock to take her and children to Nelson, (Kentucky?) immediately. 2ppp. ACYS of ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Empathizes with sister's dental discomforts and gives advice; describes own health; reassures mother (in-law?) about her weight; asks after Sarah; describes baby son, Egbert, about his growth and achievements; describes spring and garden produce; agree would be nice to live closer to family, but accepts the situation; asks parents and sibling to visit. 3pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily recovering from the measles; concerned that brother and his family may move to Florida; sends condolences to enslaved person named Johnson, little news other than domestic concerns; misses family and hopes to see them but uncertain of when could visit; likens baby daughter Elizabeth to other relatives; asks parents to address next letter to husband, J. Goodman, if they want J. to write them in return. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expresses relief at news that mother-in-law (Elizabeth) is recovering; announces recent birth of daughter, as yet unnamed; relates prince of produce; has gotten letter from Uncle Garland that father's estate had finally been settled; asks him to verify the information as a business prospect depends on the amount he'd receive; comments that he hopes Thomas G. is no longer an ardent Jackson-Van Buren adherent; asks that the letter be forwarded to his father-in-law, Jesse Garth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes recent business trip which included stops in New Orleans, Mobile, Selma, Tuscaloosa, Greensboro, Huntsville, and Nashville; relates many failures due to first high land prices then a sharp fall; describes own prospects and estimates own profits; requests Jesse and Uncle Briteberry inquire about possibility of sending his cattle to New York; relates family news. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Relates incident of son (?), Sam's accident with hastily loaded wagon of logs and his suprising survival; asks if Jesse has any interest in buying team of mules and gives price he'd consider; inquires after mother and sister (Elizabeth?). 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes recent weather and speculates on harvest; describes political excitement over issue of emancipation; explains why he believes it won't pass; asks for news about family friend, May Summer; discusses cholera experience; exchanges family news. 2pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses plans to visit parents in late fall or early winter; describes crops and estimates profits; expresses concern for brother's salvation. 2pp. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Business correspondence with various merchants predominately in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as Milton, Bourbon Co,. Kentucky Correspondents include: Anderson \u0026amp; Blair; D \u0026amp; E Anderson; Edward Anderson; John Cothrac (?); Anderson \u0026amp; Woodson; Luther W. George; Anderson, Wookson, \u0026amp; Bigges; Thomas Gilmer; A.F. Bigges; Anderson, Blair, \u0026amp; Anderson; B. Brown, Jr.; and J. Garth. Contentd pertain to various concerns, such as prices of commodities, sale of farm produce, tobacco trading, loans, banking matters, accounts with company, establishing a neighborhood school, opening a new store, and payment of accounts. 29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Business correspondence with various merchants predominately in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as Hydraulic Mills, Virginia Correspondents include: Blair \u0026amp; Anderson; Beverly Blair; Deane \u0026amp; Edwards; John D. Brown (?); Charles Brown; Robert Enrastreny (?); Andrews Samper (?); Deane \u0026amp; Brown; B.C. Flannagan; James O. Walters; W. \u0026amp; B. Brown; T. Garth; W. Hatch; and N. N. Wallace. Contents pertain to various concerns, such as accounts with company, tobacco trading, prices of commmodities, sale of cattle, land question, fabric patterns and types, arranging delivery of dairy products with neighbor, proposal to burn (for clearing purposes) adjoining lands by a neighbor, information about sale of farm produce, and possible lumbering information. 23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse Garth's promissory notes, loans, and acknowledgements of debts. 115 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for payments made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 98 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for payments made by either Jesse, Elizabeth, or Brightberry Garth. 78 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for payments made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 68 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 121 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts and bills, with various creditors, including: Brown, River, \u0026amp;Co.; Brown, Watson, \u0026amp; Co.; William Galt; James Horsley; Richard Bibb; J. Kelly \u0026amp; Co.; and James \u0026amp; Samuel Leitch for such items as paper, a variety of fabrics, sewing accessories, liquor, farmwork, household goods, staples (i.e. coffee, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, pepper, spices.), hardware, shoes, a shawl, suspenders, exercise book, New York Reader, and tobacco trade. Family members mentioned are J., John, Jesse, and W. Garth. 45 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists, with various creditors, including: R. Anderson, Asa Davey, S.F. Hoy, Branham \u0026amp; Jones, John H. Craven, David Owens, Abraham Johnson, Anderson \u0026amp; Blair, Charles Brown, M.D., James \u0026amp; Samuel Leitch. Items involved included farm labor, building materials and supplies for house, partial total of year's produce, tobacco trade, day work at lumbermill and blacksmithing. Purchases include steel, iron, farm implements, horse furniture, liqour, household goods, staples (i.e. salt, spices, loaf suger, coffee.), necklace, tortoise comb, glass lens, various types shoes, various fabrics, sewing accessories, gloves, blankets, brrass candlesticks, razor, suspenders, dressing glass, china coffee cups, serving bowls, wine glasses, tumblers, and various school books. Family members mentioned include Thomas, Sarah Anne, Polly, \"son Jesse\", Brightberry B., \"Bez'l\", Garland, and Jesse Garth. 59 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists with various creditors, including: Edmund Anderson; John Winn; Kelly \u0026amp; Norris; Jesse Lewis; David Owens; Branham \u0026amp; Bibb; John C. St. John; Anderson, Woodson, \u0026amp; Bigges; Joseph Bishop; George Wolfe; Luther W. George; David Isaacs; George Toole; Joel W. Brown; and G.W. Vaughan. Items involved include: tobacco trade, blacksmithing, labor, house rent, bill of sale for the \"Miller Mare\", and (apparently) stud service. Purchases include: household goods, hardware, iron, timber, leather and leather goods, liqour, shoes, gloves, sewing accessories, various fabrics, cotton stockings, tea set, staples (i.e. spices, loaf sugar, salt, coffee, tea), cigars, and books (English Reader, Picketts Expositor and Goldsmith's English). Family members mentioned are B., Jesse, W., Thomas (son), Brightberry (son), Thomas G., W. David, and James F Garth. 68 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors, including: Anderson, Woodson, \u0026amp; Bigges; John Gay; John Shiflete; Samuel Dumul (?); Joseph Robinson; M.E. Kelly, N. Barksdale, Dabney Madison; W. Snyder; Jacob C. Lupiton; and Louis Leschot. Items include: iron, tobacco trade, staples (i.e. coffe, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, spices), books (Christian's Blackstone, Tate's Digest, Wheaton's, Hall's Digested Index, dicitionary, copybook, geography and atlas), various fabrics and sewing accessories. Women's account with Jane Isaacs for dresses, bonnets, ostrich feathers, various fabrics, and patterns. Family members include T.G., Lucy E.B., and Mrs. and Mr. Jesse Garth. 49 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: N. Burnley; W. Dawson; B. Ficklin \u0026amp; Son; J.C. Lupton; E. Hansbarger; Beverley Blair; E \u0026amp; J Mosely; W. Fellows; E.L. Watson \u0026amp; Co.; Michie \u0026amp; Madison; Timberlake \u0026amp; Magruder; J \u0026amp; S Leicht; and Louis Leschot. Among variety of work, household, and personal items involved are: medical bills, newspaper subscriptions, school books, list of supplies for building a house, materials needed for wedding gown, parasol, whale bones, and lock \u0026amp; bolt. Family members mentioned are: W. Garth, Miss E. Garth, Mrs. E. Marth, Mrs. J. Garth, Jesse Garth, and Jesse Garth \"senior\". 87 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: B. Ficklin \u0026amp; Son; W. Garth; J.C. Lupton; Sample \u0026amp; Leitch; W. Dawson; N. Burnley; Charles Brown; M.D., A. Watson; B.C. Flannagan \u0026amp; Co.; G.T. Owens; and Deane \u0026amp; Brown. Among variety of work, household and personal items involved are medical bills, itemized listing of day labor and an order of forks. Family members mentioned are: B.B. Garland, Garland, Mrs. E. B. Garth, Mrs. W. Garth, Elizabeth Garth, J. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 89 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: Jones \u0026amp; Habban; N. Burnley; B.C. Flannagan \u0026amp; Co.; A. Sample; J.W. Jones; G.T. Owens; Payne \u0026amp; Novis; G. Moore; and Hassan \u0026amp; Boyle. Among variety of work, household, and personal items involved are mousetraps and an engraved head and footstone. Family members mentioned are: Miss Garth, Miss E. Garth, Mrs. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists. Among the items are: hotel bills, blank cashier's check, bill for stable, bill for 18 sq. house, bill for timber, bill for tobacco, freight and commission, various grocery and/or household supply bills, accounts with D \u0026amp; E Anderson, Weartenbaker, B. Brown, R \u0026amp; H Neilson, A. Woods, and B.C. Flannagan \u0026amp; Co., blacksmithing and hardware bills, and accounts for Mrs. Garth and a Miss Garth, and various fragments. 60 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGarth family accounts with Samuel and James Leitch. Merchandise includes: hardware, dyestuffs, liqour, household goods, gun powder, staples and groceries, stationary, penknives, sewing accessories, various fabrics, books, an entire set of china (including serving dishes), parasol, fiddlestrings, various shoes, gloves, beavermitts, gents' gloves, gentleman's stockings cotton and silk ladies stockings, raisons and a copy of The Virginia Housewife. 19 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Jesse Garth's account book, showing debtors as John Benson, George Wolfe, Elijah Brown, David Isaacs, George Tool, (?) Medener, Abe Norris, Mathew Carsy, Samuel Leitch, N. Watson, (?) Coleman, Gennings Maupin, Lowel Brown, and Francis Dyer. Items involved pertain to lumber and/or farm products. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse Garth's accounts with John R. Jones, for a wide variety of personal, household, and hardware merchandise, including: buckskin gloves, coal bellows, vest pattern, parasol, and square iron. 3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Jess Garth's accounts with Timberlake \u0026amp; Magruder, for such items as bran, flour, cotton bales, plaster, freight, and drayage. 5 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse Garth's accounts with Beverly Blair, pertaining to tobacco trade. 4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Jesse Garth's Accounts with B. \u0026amp; J. Moseley, for a variety of household goods; grocery items and sewing and fabric accessories. 6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse Garth's accounts with William W. Via, for a variety of customized blacksmithing products. 8 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGarth Family documents of the enslaved. Predominately bills of sale listing names of sellers, amount paid, date of purchase, and enslaved names and/or ages. Also, a note of Jesse and Brightberry Garth as cosigners of loan for Jesse B. Garth. Also, a bill of hire for three enslaved persons for a month. 14 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGarth Family land Records. Include land deeds, surveys, plats and court hearings. 20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse Garth's tax receipts, indicating rate of millage and total due. Majority are handwritten, although a number of printed blanks are included. Several paid by Elizabeth Garth. 86 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayments ordered by county and/or supreme courts to be made by Jesse Garth. 22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Miscellaneous documents involve: a list of boarders compiled for Miss Sarah A.J. Garth (n.d.); an inventory of books (n.d.); a Whig election ticket for 1851; a tanning recipe; a recipe for tomato catsup; a recipe for curing rheumatic pains; and an inventory of \"grandmama's things belonging to the house\" by Jesse T.(?) Garth. 8 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous documents within the collection but as yet uncertain of relationship to the Garth family include: Henry Mill's 1816 account with Bezaleel Brown; George Williams' accounts with Samuel Leitch, 1824-1829; William Garland's July 1823 fine by the clerk of Albemarle Co., receipts by Benjamin Brown and John H. Craven; land patent on April 1, 1864, for Christian M. Shafer and C.P. Matthews; April 10, 1868, application for patent generating gas; and agreement to sale of land on April 11, 1872. 8 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal documents pertaining to a variety of concerns such as: George Gentry's will; subpoenas; description of trial proceedings; copies of court proceedings; legal advice; guardianship records; a copy of John W. Grover's will, stock certificate for the James River and Kanawha and Co. 19 items.\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","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","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":["This inventory contains personal and buisness correspondence, financial documents, loans, promissory notes, legal documents, tax information, and land records belonging to the Jesse Garth family of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, The majority of the inventory documents correspondence chiefly from 1800-1854 between family members, mostly the adult children of Jesse and Elizabeth Garth, fl. 1798-1854, especially Lucy E. B. Garth, fl. 1820-1849; Sarah Garth Goodman, fl. 1820-1842; Jesse B. Garth, fl. 1833-1834; and May S. Garth Sumner, fl. 1849-1851, as well as other nephews and family members.","Other materials include accounts from business and legal acquaintances in the Richmond and Charlottesville, Va. areas. The subject matter in these letters pertain to agricultural and business matters, the War of 1812, slavery, emancipation, land transactions, schools, and legal concerns. Also included is a suicide note dated, 30 June 1835.","Scope and Contents Describes defeat of British in \"Canady\" and valor of Jo(h)nson's Regiment of mounted militia against the British regulars; tells of cowardice of Proctor (?); relates death of \"Tecomse\" (sic) (Tecumseh) by severely wounded Col. T. Jo(h)nson; hopes government will now support the war \"hart and hand\"; send regards to various friends; Jo(h)nson expected to recover; twenty men lost in the charge; mentions upcoming marriage of Rodes Garth and \"Mis Carigan\"; asks after brother, Elijah. 4pp. ALS. Including typescript.","Scope and Contents Describes prospects in Alabama; things hard as cotton prices down 1/2; provisions quite expensive; sale of public land continues and will during next year; one of his sons could make fortune with only a few hundred dollars in land; poor health has prevented attention to business; reiterates good potential of area; money could be placed in account with E. Anderson in Richmond; 90 days would be enough time for son to arrive, choose land, and make arrangements; life at first would be rought; sends regards to Jesse and his family and his own mother. 3pp. ALS. Including typescript.","Scope and Contents Inquires about health; glad to receive letter; hopes own crops do well; corn goes for $.60/bushel and pork for $6.00; everything else \"dull\"; money scarce as time of contraction; inquires if still intends to visit in spring; hard winter sonce Christmas; looks forward to their visit. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Relates information concerning next court date and which session they should plan on attending; requests advice for Adelisa (?) Cooper, young acquaintance who is considering opening a \"female school\" in the Charlottesville area. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents In response to his request, has inquired about possible need for a school for women; explains that there are several in the area. 1p. ALS. Incomplete.","Scope and Contents Inquires about family's health and Isaac's recovery; compelled to seek loan as saw mill in need of repairs and unable to raise cash; hopes to recover costs within 3 to 4 weeks of operation; Tho(ma)s Garth will give further explanation; letter will serve as bond and receipt until repayment. Receipt of loan acknowledged in writing by Tho(ma)s Garth. In third hand, both Jesse and T. Grath with notations of $50.00 written. 2pp. ALS. Including typescript.","Describes exact measurements for planks neeeded for roofing materials.1p. ALS.","Discusses his recovery; inquires about family's health; replies to previous question regarding total loans to Jesse; estimates $971.48; would like repayment but is aware of recent misfortunes; own health compells him t oresolve financial matters; is agreeable to suggestion that enslaved persons be repayment. 1p. ALS.","Scope and Contents Realizes own death is near; wants to resolve question of loans as quickly and as easily as possible; if Jesse brings or send it, money should be in N. Carolina bills; if executors call for it, they may demand \"the best money\" as compensation; doesn't mean to alarm him over either loan or impending death; trusts both will be quickly resolved. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Trip home took 22 days due to inclement weather, poor health, and a bad axle; he and Lucy are in good health; she has gained weight; hopes all are well; spring in Kentucky is \"bakcwards\" as tobacco is planted before corn; tobacco in New Orleans is at $4.00 and rising, corn is $1.25/bushel. 2pp. ALS.","Gives particulars pertaining to upcoming trip to Richmond; invites Sarah to come. 1p. ANS.","Scope and Contents Arrived last night at cousin Winston Garth's; the axeltree broke again; Aunt Unity (?) is ill; had a daughter nine days ago; the doctor is doubtful of her recovery; Winston at the land sales; will leave in morning to join him as little time to explore the land before the sale starts on the 22nd; trip took 26 days and cost $38.74, besides swapping horses as mentioned previously; horses are fine; averaged 23 or24 miles/day; met many old acquaintances on way; met Rowland Gouch near Huntsville, who used to live at the Barracks (?) and knew everybody in Albemarle; corn crops in Virginia surpass those elsewhere; cotton does well in some areas and less well in others. 2pp. ALS. Including ANS from Susan Garth, Morgan Co., Alabama, to her parents (in-law), Jesse Garth and wife, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 7, 1833, concerning trip; describes Aunt Unity's condition; please pass on news to her own parents; won't write until Jesse B. returns and situation with Aunt Unity resolved. 1p.","Scope and Contents Concerned that has had no reply to letters since left Virginia; dissapointed that country site was not at Walker; choice was result of speculation only; unpopularity will end in petition to change it at next legislative meeting; party spirit runs high; strongest party is Constitutional Nullifiers; offered $6.00/acre; had paid $1.50/acre; will soon sell; intends to join Winston Garth in Chickasaw land sale in summer and fall; describes area and its name; extremely wet winter and spring; much livestock drowned and many roads closed; warns brothers no to be partners with William (?) Garth, as he only wants their money and has since caused own trouble with Winston; requests any old accounts to be settled and money forwarded; health is good, hopes some will move out to good farm land and horses. 3pp. ALS. Including ANS from Susan Garth, Okachickoma, Yalabusha Co., Mississippi, to parents (in-law) Jesse Garth and wife, Charlottesville, Virginia, concerning cost of living and decision to teach; thinks have done well for first year; she and sister (?) Polly miss family. 1p.","Scope and Contents Suicide note copied by Julius A. Harris for Jesse Garth. Letter explains reasons for action- her reaction to his confession of lying about buying paintings prevented him from relating details of lie about buying furniture; never had the money and unable to borrow it from friends or relatives; apologizes for the anguish has caused; her love, generosity, and affection are not enough to balance his deception; asks for forgiveness; explains his lies were never intended to be painful or deceptive; he only wanted her to be happy and has sincerely loved her; advises her to ask Mr. Cock to take her and children to Nelson, (Kentucky?) immediately. 2ppp. ACYS of ALS.","Scope and Contents Empathizes with sister's dental discomforts and gives advice; describes own health; reassures mother (in-law?) about her weight; asks after Sarah; describes baby son, Egbert, about his growth and achievements; describes spring and garden produce; agree would be nice to live closer to family, but accepts the situation; asks parents and sibling to visit. 3pp. ALS.","Family recovering from the measles; concerned that brother and his family may move to Florida; sends condolences to enslaved person named Johnson, little news other than domestic concerns; misses family and hopes to see them but uncertain of when could visit; likens baby daughter Elizabeth to other relatives; asks parents to address next letter to husband, J. Goodman, if they want J. to write them in return. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Expresses relief at news that mother-in-law (Elizabeth) is recovering; announces recent birth of daughter, as yet unnamed; relates prince of produce; has gotten letter from Uncle Garland that father's estate had finally been settled; asks him to verify the information as a business prospect depends on the amount he'd receive; comments that he hopes Thomas G. is no longer an ardent Jackson-Van Buren adherent; asks that the letter be forwarded to his father-in-law, Jesse Garth.","Describes recent business trip which included stops in New Orleans, Mobile, Selma, Tuscaloosa, Greensboro, Huntsville, and Nashville; relates many failures due to first high land prices then a sharp fall; describes own prospects and estimates own profits; requests Jesse and Uncle Briteberry inquire about possibility of sending his cattle to New York; relates family news. 2pp. ALS.","Scope and Contents Relates incident of son (?), Sam's accident with hastily loaded wagon of logs and his suprising survival; asks if Jesse has any interest in buying team of mules and gives price he'd consider; inquires after mother and sister (Elizabeth?). 2pp. ALS.","Describes recent weather and speculates on harvest; describes political excitement over issue of emancipation; explains why he believes it won't pass; asks for news about family friend, May Summer; discusses cholera experience; exchanges family news. 2pp. ALS.","Discusses plans to visit parents in late fall or early winter; describes crops and estimates profits; expresses concern for brother's salvation. 2pp. Incomplete.","Scope and Contents Business correspondence with various merchants predominately in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as Milton, Bourbon Co,. Kentucky Correspondents include: Anderson \u0026 Blair; D \u0026 E Anderson; Edward Anderson; John Cothrac (?); Anderson \u0026 Woodson; Luther W. George; Anderson, Wookson, \u0026 Bigges; Thomas Gilmer; A.F. Bigges; Anderson, Blair, \u0026 Anderson; B. Brown, Jr.; and J. Garth. Contentd pertain to various concerns, such as prices of commodities, sale of farm produce, tobacco trading, loans, banking matters, accounts with company, establishing a neighborhood school, opening a new store, and payment of accounts. 29 items.","Scope and Contents Business correspondence with various merchants predominately in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as Hydraulic Mills, Virginia Correspondents include: Blair \u0026 Anderson; Beverly Blair; Deane \u0026 Edwards; John D. Brown (?); Charles Brown; Robert Enrastreny (?); Andrews Samper (?); Deane \u0026 Brown; B.C. Flannagan; James O. Walters; W. \u0026 B. Brown; T. Garth; W. Hatch; and N. N. Wallace. Contents pertain to various concerns, such as accounts with company, tobacco trading, prices of commmodities, sale of cattle, land question, fabric patterns and types, arranging delivery of dairy products with neighbor, proposal to burn (for clearing purposes) adjoining lands by a neighbor, information about sale of farm produce, and possible lumbering information. 23 items.","Jesse Garth's promissory notes, loans, and acknowledgements of debts. 115 items.","Receipts for payments made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 98 items.","Receipts for payments made by either Jesse, Elizabeth, or Brightberry Garth. 78 items.","Receipts for payments made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 68 items.","Receipts made by either Jesse or Elizabeth Garth. 121 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills, with various creditors, including: Brown, River, \u0026Co.; Brown, Watson, \u0026 Co.; William Galt; James Horsley; Richard Bibb; J. Kelly \u0026 Co.; and James \u0026 Samuel Leitch for such items as paper, a variety of fabrics, sewing accessories, liquor, farmwork, household goods, staples (i.e. coffee, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, pepper, spices.), hardware, shoes, a shawl, suspenders, exercise book, New York Reader, and tobacco trade. Family members mentioned are J., John, Jesse, and W. Garth. 45 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists, with various creditors, including: R. Anderson, Asa Davey, S.F. Hoy, Branham \u0026 Jones, John H. Craven, David Owens, Abraham Johnson, Anderson \u0026 Blair, Charles Brown, M.D., James \u0026 Samuel Leitch. Items involved included farm labor, building materials and supplies for house, partial total of year's produce, tobacco trade, day work at lumbermill and blacksmithing. Purchases include steel, iron, farm implements, horse furniture, liqour, household goods, staples (i.e. salt, spices, loaf suger, coffee.), necklace, tortoise comb, glass lens, various types shoes, various fabrics, sewing accessories, gloves, blankets, brrass candlesticks, razor, suspenders, dressing glass, china coffee cups, serving bowls, wine glasses, tumblers, and various school books. Family members mentioned include Thomas, Sarah Anne, Polly, \"son Jesse\", Brightberry B., \"Bez'l\", Garland, and Jesse Garth. 59 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists with various creditors, including: Edmund Anderson; John Winn; Kelly \u0026 Norris; Jesse Lewis; David Owens; Branham \u0026 Bibb; John C. St. John; Anderson, Woodson, \u0026 Bigges; Joseph Bishop; George Wolfe; Luther W. George; David Isaacs; George Toole; Joel W. Brown; and G.W. Vaughan. Items involved include: tobacco trade, blacksmithing, labor, house rent, bill of sale for the \"Miller Mare\", and (apparently) stud service. Purchases include: household goods, hardware, iron, timber, leather and leather goods, liqour, shoes, gloves, sewing accessories, various fabrics, cotton stockings, tea set, staples (i.e. spices, loaf sugar, salt, coffee, tea), cigars, and books (English Reader, Picketts Expositor and Goldsmith's English). Family members mentioned are B., Jesse, W., Thomas (son), Brightberry (son), Thomas G., W. David, and James F Garth. 68 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors, including: Anderson, Woodson, \u0026 Bigges; John Gay; John Shiflete; Samuel Dumul (?); Joseph Robinson; M.E. Kelly, N. Barksdale, Dabney Madison; W. Snyder; Jacob C. Lupiton; and Louis Leschot. Items include: iron, tobacco trade, staples (i.e. coffe, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, spices), books (Christian's Blackstone, Tate's Digest, Wheaton's, Hall's Digested Index, dicitionary, copybook, geography and atlas), various fabrics and sewing accessories. Women's account with Jane Isaacs for dresses, bonnets, ostrich feathers, various fabrics, and patterns. Family members include T.G., Lucy E.B., and Mrs. and Mr. Jesse Garth. 49 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: N. Burnley; W. Dawson; B. Ficklin \u0026 Son; J.C. Lupton; E. Hansbarger; Beverley Blair; E \u0026 J Mosely; W. Fellows; E.L. Watson \u0026 Co.; Michie \u0026 Madison; Timberlake \u0026 Magruder; J \u0026 S Leicht; and Louis Leschot. Among variety of work, household, and personal items involved are: medical bills, newspaper subscriptions, school books, list of supplies for building a house, materials needed for wedding gown, parasol, whale bones, and lock \u0026 bolt. Family members mentioned are: W. Garth, Miss E. Garth, Mrs. E. Marth, Mrs. J. Garth, Jesse Garth, and Jesse Garth \"senior\". 87 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: B. Ficklin \u0026 Son; W. Garth; J.C. Lupton; Sample \u0026 Leitch; W. Dawson; N. Burnley; Charles Brown; M.D., A. Watson; B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co.; G.T. Owens; and Deane \u0026 Brown. Among variety of work, household and personal items involved are medical bills, itemized listing of day labor and an order of forks. Family members mentioned are: B.B. Garland, Garland, Mrs. E. B. Garth, Mrs. W. Garth, Elizabeth Garth, J. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 89 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts and bills with various creditors including: Jones \u0026 Habban; N. Burnley; B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co.; A. Sample; J.W. Jones; G.T. Owens; Payne \u0026 Novis; G. Moore; and Hassan \u0026 Boyle. Among variety of work, household, and personal items involved are mousetraps and an engraved head and footstone. Family members mentioned are: Miss Garth, Miss E. Garth, Mrs. Garth, and Jesse Garth. 22 items.","Scope and Contents Accounts, bills, and lists. Among the items are: hotel bills, blank cashier's check, bill for stable, bill for 18 sq. house, bill for timber, bill for tobacco, freight and commission, various grocery and/or household supply bills, accounts with D \u0026 E Anderson, Weartenbaker, B. Brown, R \u0026 H Neilson, A. Woods, and B.C. Flannagan \u0026 Co., blacksmithing and hardware bills, and accounts for Mrs. Garth and a Miss Garth, and various fragments. 60 items.","Garth family accounts with Samuel and James Leitch. Merchandise includes: hardware, dyestuffs, liqour, household goods, gun powder, staples and groceries, stationary, penknives, sewing accessories, various fabrics, books, an entire set of china (including serving dishes), parasol, fiddlestrings, various shoes, gloves, beavermitts, gents' gloves, gentleman's stockings cotton and silk ladies stockings, raisons and a copy of The Virginia Housewife. 19 items.","Scope and Contents Jesse Garth's account book, showing debtors as John Benson, George Wolfe, Elijah Brown, David Isaacs, George Tool, (?) Medener, Abe Norris, Mathew Carsy, Samuel Leitch, N. Watson, (?) Coleman, Gennings Maupin, Lowel Brown, and Francis Dyer. Items involved pertain to lumber and/or farm products. 1 item.","Jesse Garth's accounts with John R. Jones, for a wide variety of personal, household, and hardware merchandise, including: buckskin gloves, coal bellows, vest pattern, parasol, and square iron. 3 items.","Scope and Contents Jess Garth's accounts with Timberlake \u0026 Magruder, for such items as bran, flour, cotton bales, plaster, freight, and drayage. 5 items","Jesse Garth's accounts with Beverly Blair, pertaining to tobacco trade. 4 items.","Scope and Contents Jesse Garth's Accounts with B. \u0026 J. Moseley, for a variety of household goods; grocery items and sewing and fabric accessories. 6 items.","Jesse Garth's accounts with William W. Via, for a variety of customized blacksmithing products. 8 items.","Garth Family documents of the enslaved. Predominately bills of sale listing names of sellers, amount paid, date of purchase, and enslaved names and/or ages. Also, a note of Jesse and Brightberry Garth as cosigners of loan for Jesse B. Garth. Also, a bill of hire for three enslaved persons for a month. 14 items.","Garth Family land Records. Include land deeds, surveys, plats and court hearings. 20 items.","Jesse Garth's tax receipts, indicating rate of millage and total due. Majority are handwritten, although a number of printed blanks are included. Several paid by Elizabeth Garth. 86 items.","Payments ordered by county and/or supreme courts to be made by Jesse Garth. 22 items.","Scope and Contents Miscellaneous documents involve: a list of boarders compiled for Miss Sarah A.J. Garth (n.d.); an inventory of books (n.d.); a Whig election ticket for 1851; a tanning recipe; a recipe for tomato catsup; a recipe for curing rheumatic pains; and an inventory of \"grandmama's things belonging to the house\" by Jesse T.(?) Garth. 8 items.","Miscellaneous documents within the collection but as yet uncertain of relationship to the Garth family include: Henry Mill's 1816 account with Bezaleel Brown; George Williams' accounts with Samuel Leitch, 1824-1829; William Garland's July 1823 fine by the clerk of Albemarle Co., receipts by Benjamin Brown and John H. Craven; land patent on April 1, 1864, for Christian M. Shafer and C.P. Matthews; April 10, 1868, application for patent generating gas; and agreement to sale of land on April 11, 1872. 8 items.","Legal documents pertaining to a variety of concerns such as: George Gentry's will; subpoenas; description of trial proceedings; copies of court proceedings; legal advice; guardianship records; a copy of John 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.","Processed by Lisa Lee and Elizabeth Engelken in 1989.","The inventory includes letters, 1851-1861, and accounts, 1840-1866, of Rufus King Fitzhugh and his wife Henrietta Ellen (Baytop) Fitzhugh of Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia. Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. The collection also includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of Fredericksburg, Virginia. ","The letters relate various aspects of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists, and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are generally from business associates or his brother George Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson County, Arkansas, that was destroyed by the Union Army.","The letter discusses a \"last effort\" will be made to earn some profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhugh's advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting powder\" in the area. Includes typescript.","The letter sends news of family and friends; tells of excitement about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good; invites Hettie to visit. Includes typescript.","This document spans three letters: James Baytop writes how his family will travel to Gordesville; physical ailments bothering him and his wife. Includes typescript.  \nThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns health of family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its effects on their crops. Includes typescript. \nThe letter from \"Bunn\" Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, County, Virginia and his efforts to find a wife; went to an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola tribes; Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire; went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. of Hampton, Virginia has two beaux and dances every night in Old Point, Hampton, Virginia. Includes typescript.","The letter from Rowena Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, December 9, 1851, describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging \"father\" to go to Texas. Includes typescript. ","The letter from Lucy Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, no date, details the food and decorations of the Christmas parties; everyone is sick as a result of the hectic schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered 16 hogs and one cow; longs for past Christmases when the children were young; related family news; asks if \"Mr. Fitzhugh\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" Includes typescript. ","The letter from George Fitzhugh, no place, to Rufus Fitzhugh, describes how the farm is beginning to reap profits; $80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed; land is expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500. Includes typescript.","The letter from Mary Indiana Winborn Baytop to Hetty E. Fitzhugh discusses how Christmas has passed and work must resume; \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and pleurisys are very prevalent.\"","A letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Fitzhugh, is included. She discusses the division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250. Includes typescript. ","The letter from Sallie Champe Fitzhugh, Port Royal, Virginia to \"my dearest uncle,\" no place, discusses her hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring; gossip about weddings. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy A. Baytop, no place, to Hetty Fitzhugh, Gloucester, Virginia spreads news of family and friends; the young minister from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy[?] had a baby which died a month after birth of unknown causes and is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy farming and studying to prepare for the ministry. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child,\" Hetty Fitzhugh, Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia discusses how the circuit court is in session and \"Thit is summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair are going to Washington to see about getting Mr. Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing persons for different offices as clerk commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff and c.; \"the guinea people have brought out Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he will stand a very good chance to be elected. Includes typescript.","The letter from an unknown person at Woodside, to Mrs. Hetty E. Fitzhugh, Standardsville,Greene County, Virginia discusses how Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington; \"Father has given up all hope of his military claim.\" Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, reports the sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy Ann; Lucy Ann left to visit Tom Taliaferro and then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news about births, visits, farm business of friends; comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" a slave?, who \"has a better master this year.\" Includes typescript.","The letter discusses Hettie's trip to visit which should not be postponed until February; she had travelled to Baltimore, but cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\" Includes envelope and typescript.","The letter from Lucy Ann Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia, discusses how the pressures of work and business have kept her from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and Clara ?; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in California and doing well mining for gold; looks forward to her visit this winter. Includes typescript.","Scope and Contents Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 27 August 1853. 1 page.ALS. Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, Virginia To Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., 9 October 1855. 2 pages. autographed signed letter. Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., October 1855. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do. Folder 2 L[ucy] A[nn] Baytop, Gloucester [County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh], Stanardsville, [Greene County], Virginia, 4 April 1857. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Edgar Macon, Richmond, [Virginia] to R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,[Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 20 July 1858. 1 page. Autpgraphed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Geo[rge] Fitzhugh, Port Royal, [Virginia] to Rufus [K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 1 October 1858. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 James W. Shields, Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Scott [?], 15 April 1859. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 L[ucy] T[aliaferro] Baytop,Springfield, [Gloucester County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 25 March 1860. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Lucy Stubbs, Valley Front, [Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Virginia], 19 March [18]61. 4 pages. Autographed letter signed. Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. F[itzhugh],[Fredericksburg, Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 19 February [?]. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. Fitzhugh, Fredericksburg, Virginia To Hettie Fitzhugh, [Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 30 December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 \"Bun\" [Baytop], Springfield, Virginia To Mrs. Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document.","The letter from A.G.G[?], Christiansburg, Virginia to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County,Virginia, tells that he has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, Virginia by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville.","A.G.G. writes to Fitzhugh and admonishes him for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land.","A.G.G. complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do.","Lucy is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typescript. ","A second message is included on the document: T. C. Baytop, no place to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" Includes typescript. ","Macon acknowledges receipt of a check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; he notes the \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typescript.","George acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typescript.","James notes that the letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typescript.","Lucy hHas been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typescript.","Lucy relates that an uUnexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typescript.","Mary's arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; she invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typescript.","Mary writes that friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquires about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typescript.","Bun describes a party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typescript. \nThe letter includes an addition message: James C. Baytop, no place, writes to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. Includes typescript.","Lucie sends a recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typescript.","She sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autograph letter signed.","This folder contains documents on foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, George Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typescript.","Scope and Contents Folder 3 Account of Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, [Virginia] with W[illia]m H. Guns and Co.,[Stanardsville, Virginia?], 2 July 1840. 2 pages. For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Accounts, 21 December 1840-January 1866. 14 pages. On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typed copy of document. 4 pages. Folder 3 Accounts and receipts of Mr. R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 13 April 1843-19 May 1859. 5 pages. For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives. Folder 3 Annual tax receipts of Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh, 1845-1865. 11 pages. Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves; horses, county and parish levies. Folder 3 Receipt of payment by R[ufus] K[ing] F[itzhugh], 14 January 1852-4 January 1854. 2 pages. For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Account of Thomas Carpenter, dec[ease]d, 22 April 1852. 1 page. For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Adm[inistrator]. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Accounts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,guardian of the Children of Mary Ann Conway, October 1852-1 January 1853. 2 pages. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, dec[ease]d as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway, 4 January 1853. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 21 April 1856-15 March 1858. 2 pages. For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.]. Folder 3 Account of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhughwith Gibbons and Mitchell, 15 May 1860-19 January 1861. 2 pages. For material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 \"A list of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,Jackson County, Arkansas, n.d. 3 pages. Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Lucie [Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia] to \"my dear sister,\" [Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], n.d. 2 pages. Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autpgraphed signed letter. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipt [of Rufus K. Fitzhugh], n.d. 1 page.D. For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.","Account of the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typescript.","Accounts and receipts of Mr. Rufus King Fitzhugh for the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives.","Account of Thomas Carpenter, deceased, for lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Administrator. Includes typescript.","Accounts of Rufus King Fitzhugh, guardian of the children of Mary Ann Conway. Includes typescript.","An account of Rufus King Fitzhugh with Gibbons and Mitchell for material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typescript.","Receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typescript.","Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, deceased, as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway. Typescript included.","A receipt for furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, Virginia and New York, N.Y.","Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.","Annual tax receipts of Rufus King Fitzhugh paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves, horses, county and parish levies.","A list of Rufus King Fitzhugh, Jackson County, Arkansas, of property destroyed by the Federated Army commanded by Gen. Curtis. The list includes \"seven Negro men\", the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. 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Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. The collection also includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of Fredericksburg, Virginia. ","The letters relate various aspects of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists, and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are generally from business associates or his brother George Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson County, Arkansas, that was destroyed by the Union Army.","The letter discusses a \"last effort\" will be made to earn some profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhugh's advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting powder\" in the area. Includes typescript.","The letter sends news of family and friends; tells of excitement about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good; invites Hettie to visit. Includes typescript.","This document spans three letters: James Baytop writes how his family will travel to Gordesville; physical ailments bothering him and his wife. Includes typescript.  \nThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns health of family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its effects on their crops. Includes typescript. \nThe letter from \"Bunn\" Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, County, Virginia and his efforts to find a wife; went to an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola tribes; Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire; went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. of Hampton, Virginia has two beaux and dances every night in Old Point, Hampton, Virginia. Includes typescript.","The letter from Rowena Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, December 9, 1851, describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging \"father\" to go to Texas. Includes typescript. ","The letter from Lucy Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, no date, details the food and decorations of the Christmas parties; everyone is sick as a result of the hectic schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered 16 hogs and one cow; longs for past Christmases when the children were young; related family news; asks if \"Mr. Fitzhugh\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" Includes typescript. ","The letter from George Fitzhugh, no place, to Rufus Fitzhugh, describes how the farm is beginning to reap profits; $80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed; land is expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500. Includes typescript.","The letter from Mary Indiana Winborn Baytop to Hetty E. Fitzhugh discusses how Christmas has passed and work must resume; \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and pleurisys are very prevalent.\"","A letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Fitzhugh, is included. She discusses the division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250. Includes typescript. ","The letter from Sallie Champe Fitzhugh, Port Royal, Virginia to \"my dearest uncle,\" no place, discusses her hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring; gossip about weddings. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy A. Baytop, no place, to Hetty Fitzhugh, Gloucester, Virginia spreads news of family and friends; the young minister from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy[?] had a baby which died a month after birth of unknown causes and is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy farming and studying to prepare for the ministry. Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child,\" Hetty Fitzhugh, Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia discusses how the circuit court is in session and \"Thit is summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair are going to Washington to see about getting Mr. Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing persons for different offices as clerk commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff and c.; \"the guinea people have brought out Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he will stand a very good chance to be elected. Includes typescript.","The letter from an unknown person at Woodside, to Mrs. Hetty E. Fitzhugh, Standardsville,Greene County, Virginia discusses how Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington; \"Father has given up all hope of his military claim.\" Includes typescript.","The letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, reports the sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy Ann; Lucy Ann left to visit Tom Taliaferro and then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news about births, visits, farm business of friends; comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" a slave?, who \"has a better master this year.\" Includes typescript.","The letter discusses Hettie's trip to visit which should not be postponed until February; she had travelled to Baltimore, but cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\" Includes envelope and typescript.","The letter from Lucy Ann Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia, discusses how the pressures of work and business have kept her from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and Clara ?; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in California and doing well mining for gold; looks forward to her visit this winter. Includes typescript.","Scope and Contents Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 27 August 1853. 1 page.ALS. Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, Virginia To Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., 9 October 1855. 2 pages. autographed signed letter. Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., October 1855. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do. Folder 2 L[ucy] A[nn] Baytop, Gloucester [County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh], Stanardsville, [Greene County], Virginia, 4 April 1857. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Edgar Macon, Richmond, [Virginia] to R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,[Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 20 July 1858. 1 page. Autpgraphed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Geo[rge] Fitzhugh, Port Royal, [Virginia] to Rufus [K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 1 October 1858. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 James W. Shields, Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Scott [?], 15 April 1859. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 L[ucy] T[aliaferro] Baytop,Springfield, [Gloucester County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 25 March 1860. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Lucy Stubbs, Valley Front, [Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Virginia], 19 March [18]61. 4 pages. Autographed letter signed. Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. F[itzhugh],[Fredericksburg, Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 19 February [?]. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. Fitzhugh, Fredericksburg, Virginia To Hettie Fitzhugh, [Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 30 December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 \"Bun\" [Baytop], Springfield, Virginia To Mrs. Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document.","The letter from A.G.G[?], Christiansburg, Virginia to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County,Virginia, tells that he has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, Virginia by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville.","A.G.G. writes to Fitzhugh and admonishes him for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land.","A.G.G. complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do.","Lucy is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typescript. ","A second message is included on the document: T. C. Baytop, no place to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" Includes typescript. ","Macon acknowledges receipt of a check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; he notes the \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typescript.","George acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typescript.","James notes that the letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typescript.","Lucy hHas been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typescript.","Lucy relates that an uUnexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typescript.","Mary's arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; she invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typescript.","Mary writes that friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquires about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typescript.","Bun describes a party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typescript. \nThe letter includes an addition message: James C. Baytop, no place, writes to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. Includes typescript.","Lucie sends a recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typescript.","She sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autograph letter signed.","This folder contains documents on foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, George Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typescript.","Scope and Contents Folder 3 Account of Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, [Virginia] with W[illia]m H. Guns and Co.,[Stanardsville, Virginia?], 2 July 1840. 2 pages. For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Accounts, 21 December 1840-January 1866. 14 pages. On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typed copy of document. 4 pages. Folder 3 Accounts and receipts of Mr. R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 13 April 1843-19 May 1859. 5 pages. For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives. Folder 3 Annual tax receipts of Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh, 1845-1865. 11 pages. Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves; horses, county and parish levies. Folder 3 Receipt of payment by R[ufus] K[ing] F[itzhugh], 14 January 1852-4 January 1854. 2 pages. For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Account of Thomas Carpenter, dec[ease]d, 22 April 1852. 1 page. For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Adm[inistrator]. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Accounts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,guardian of the Children of Mary Ann Conway, October 1852-1 January 1853. 2 pages. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, dec[ease]d as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway, 4 January 1853. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 21 April 1856-15 March 1858. 2 pages. For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.]. Folder 3 Account of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhughwith Gibbons and Mitchell, 15 May 1860-19 January 1861. 2 pages. For material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 \"A list of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,Jackson County, Arkansas, n.d. 3 pages. Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Lucie [Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia] to \"my dear sister,\" [Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], n.d. 2 pages. Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autpgraphed signed letter. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipt [of Rufus K. Fitzhugh], n.d. 1 page.D. For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.","Account of the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typescript.","Accounts and receipts of Mr. Rufus King Fitzhugh for the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives.","Account of Thomas Carpenter, deceased, for lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Administrator. Includes typescript.","Accounts of Rufus King Fitzhugh, guardian of the children of Mary Ann Conway. Includes typescript.","An account of Rufus King Fitzhugh with Gibbons and Mitchell for material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typescript.","Receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typescript.","Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, deceased, as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway. Typescript included.","A receipt for furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, Virginia and New York, N.Y.","Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.","Annual tax receipts of Rufus King Fitzhugh paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves, horses, county and parish levies.","A list of Rufus King Fitzhugh, Jackson County, Arkansas, of property destroyed by the Federated Army commanded by Gen. Curtis. The list includes \"seven Negro men\", the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. 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Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. The collection also includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of Fredericksburg, Virginia. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letters relate various aspects of nineteenth century farm life, such as men and women's separate responsibilities on the farm, illnesses and treatments, childbirth and its complications, and social activities. There are comments on slaves, tensions between the slave states and the federal government and the abolitionists, and the eventual Civil War. Letters to Rufus King Fitzhugh are generally from business associates or his brother George Fitzhugh, of Port Royal, Virginia. Both his letters and business accounts offer insight into his affairs, such as land speculation, mining for coal, slaves as investments, as well as deeds, receipts of purchase and payment of property, and tax receipts. An undated item records his property in Jackson County, Arkansas, that was destroyed by the Union Army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter discusses a \"last effort\" will be made to earn some profit from the copper mine at Stony Man which has been \"condemned...as worthless;\" seeks Fitzhugh's advice on where Mrs. Williams can board while he is at the mine; and the availability of \"Blasting powder\" in the area. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter sends news of family and friends; tells of excitement about making a \"missionary quilt for Mr. Payne our African Missionary\" with neighborhood women and girls; gladly accepts invitation to visit \"next summer\" if Ma's health and spirits are good; invites Hettie to visit. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis document spans three letters: James Baytop writes how his family will travel to Gordesville; physical ailments bothering him and his wife. Includes typescript.  \nThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns health of family; travel plans; hot, dry weather, and its effects on their crops. Includes typescript. \nThe letter from \"Bunn\" Baytop to Hetty Henrietta Baytop concerns \"Kit's\" travels to King and Queen, County, Virginia and his efforts to find a wife; went to an Indian concert and saw five Indians who were descendants of the Black Hawk and Oscola tribes; Indians showed them \"the manners and customs of the Oregon Indians;\" saw the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia River; and a prairie which was on fire; went crabbing; Cousin Sarah T. of Hampton, Virginia has two beaux and dances every night in Old Point, Hampton, Virginia. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Rowena Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, December 9, 1851, describes parties, with dinner and dancing, of the Christmas season; festivities are over and \"we are all at work again;\" hopes for an invitation to Miss Ann Martin's wedding; Mr. Sinclair is selling Wilson Creek to pay off his debts; is encouraging \"father\" to go to Texas. Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Henrietta Fitzhugh, no place, no date, details the food and decorations of the Christmas parties; everyone is sick as a result of the hectic schedule of parties and bad weather; slaughtered 16 hogs and one cow; longs for past Christmases when the children were young; related family news; asks if \"Mr. Fitzhugh\" moves to Texas, \"beg him to try to get Mr. Baytop in the notion too.\" Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from George Fitzhugh, no place, to Rufus Fitzhugh, describes how the farm is beginning to reap profits; $80-owed for \"interest paid Catlett\" is needed; land is expensive and \"Belmont\" would bring $4500. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Mary Indiana Winborn Baytop to Hetty E. Fitzhugh discusses how Christmas has passed and work must resume; \"great deal of sickness in the county, colds and pleurisys are very prevalent.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop to Hetty Fitzhugh, is included. She discusses the division of Concord Negroes which will bring $250. Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Sallie Champe Fitzhugh, Port Royal, Virginia to \"my dearest uncle,\" no place, discusses her hopes to encourage uncle to visit; Papa is expecting him and Aunt Ona to visit in the spring; gossip about weddings. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy A. Baytop, no place, to Hetty Fitzhugh, Gloucester, Virginia spreads news of family and friends; the young minister from Bellmeys, preached before a great crowd; Judy[?] had a baby which died a month after birth of unknown causes and is depressed; Mr. Baytop is busy farming and studying to prepare for the ministry. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child,\" Hetty Fitzhugh, Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia discusses how the circuit court is in session and \"Thit is summoned as a witness\"; father and Mr. Sinclair are going to Washington to see about getting Mr. Sinclair's claim allowed; describes fuss electing persons for different offices as clerk commissioner of the revenue, constable sheriff and c.; \"the guinea people have brought out Jefferson Stubbs for clerk and it is thought he will stand a very good chance to be elected. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from an unknown person at Woodside, to Mrs. Hetty E. Fitzhugh, Standardsville,Greene County, Virginia discusses how Father and Mr. Sinclair were in Washington; \"Father has given up all hope of his military claim.\" Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy Taliaferro Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to \"My Dear Child\", Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, reports the sicknesses of Rowena, Eugenia, and Lucy Ann; Lucy Ann left to visit Tom Taliaferro and then to travel to Wilson's Creek; reports news about births, visits, farm business of friends; comments on the treatment of \"Bob\" a slave?, who \"has a better master this year.\" Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter discusses Hettie's trip to visit which should not be postponed until February; she had travelled to Baltimore, but cannot describe it adequately \"from the pen of so ignorant a creature as myself\"; there are many gentlemen available for marriage; Pa has gone to sell a dozen turkeys to Mr. Folk; Lucy's baby is \"one of the sweetest babies you ever saw.\" Includes envelope and typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Lucy Ann Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia, discusses how the pressures of work and business have kept her from writing; reports marriages of \"Cousin Tom Field and his bride Miss Davis\"; Mr. Shackelfor and Miss Hester Rowe; \"Sister\" has had another baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and Clara ?; Clara has a \"riseing breast,\" and \"the horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the jar to her breast...Dr. Jones stays with her to attend her\"; her brother is in the Sonora mine in California and doing well mining for gold; looks forward to her visit this winter. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 27 August 1853. 1 page.ALS. Has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, [Virginia] by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, Virginia To Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., 9 October 1855. 2 pages. autographed signed letter. Admonishes Fitzhugh for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land. Folder 2 A. G. G[?], Madison, [Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, n.p., October 1855. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do. Folder 2 L[ucy] A[nn] Baytop, Gloucester [County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh], Stanardsville, [Greene County], Virginia, 4 April 1857. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from T. C. Baytop, n.p., n.d. to \"Hetty] Fitzhugh, n.p. telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" 1 page Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Edgar Macon, Richmond, [Virginia] to R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,[Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 20 July 1858. 1 page. Autpgraphed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt of check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typed copy of document. Folder 2 Geo[rge] Fitzhugh, Port Royal, [Virginia] to Rufus [K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 1 October 1858. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 James W. Shields, Christiansburg, [Virginia] to Scott [?], 15 April 1859. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 L[ucy] T[aliaferro] Baytop,Springfield, [Gloucester County, Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 25 March 1860. 2 pages. Autographed letter signed. Has been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Lucy Stubbs, Valley Front, [Virginia] to Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Virginia], 19 March [18]61. 4 pages. Autographed letter signed. Unexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. F[itzhugh],[Fredericksburg, Virginia] to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Green[e] County,Virginia, 19 February [?]. 1 page. Autographed letter signed. Arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 Mary F. Fitzhugh, Fredericksburg, Virginia To Hettie Fitzhugh, [Standardsville, Greene County, Virginia], 30 December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquiries about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 2 \"Bun\" [Baytop], Springfield, Virginia To Mrs. Hetty [Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], December [?]. 3 pages. Autographed letter signed. Party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Includes autographed letter signed from J[ames] C. Baytop, n.p. to Hetty [Fitzhugh], n.p., n.d. thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from A.G.G[?], Christiansburg, Virginia to Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County,Virginia, tells that he has surveyed land tracts of 100,000 acres and 40,000 acres near which there is coal; encourages Fitzhugh to buy land; expects to be in Charlottesville, Virginia by Friday; asks him to send his horse to Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.G.G. writes to Fitzhugh and admonishes him for not keeping his word on a business deal involving the purchase of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA.G.G. complains of Fitzhugh not sending a deed on the \"Hettick\" [?] land which he had promised to do.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy is busy making soap, tending geese and fowl; Mr. Rose and Dr. Williams are going to the Worlds Fair; news about births and deaths and visits of family and friends; a camp meeting is being organized and the date will be announced at the quarterly meeting. Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA second message is included on the document: T. C. Baytop, no place to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, telling her that her friends inquire about her well being; has planted corn and will plant marl soon; has planted watermelon for the camp meeting; Brook [a slave?] \"is the most industrious fellows we have.\" Includes typescript. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMacon acknowledges receipt of a check for $1,000.00; sends deposit slips from the Farmers Bank and the Planters Savings Bank; quotes prices for manufacturing tobacco; he notes the \"Millers are anxious\" to buy wheat stock. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge acknowledges receipt for a check of $50.00; is writing for DeBows Review and can \"make a fortune by my pen\"; planning visit for following year; transfers \"title and interest\" in estate of Haywood Foote to Rufus K. Fitzhugh. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames notes that the letter has caused \"no little trouble\"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an \"active farm in perfect order in every respect\"; description of land. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy hHas been sick with a \"congestion of wind\"; relates loss of a slave girl who died from burns sustained in a fire; elaborates on struggle between Mr. Booth and Mr. Sinclair establishing ownership and value of the slave girl; comments, \"disunion War or abject submission. I am a wonder to myself how I stand so well, once the mere talk of an insurrection would fill me with terror, now we have a white war and a servile one to dread...\" Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy relates that an uUnexpected snow storm has killed the fruit; \"since Virginia has acted so ridiculously I almost wish that I could forsake her borders...\" \"The Old Dominion is endeavoring to throw off the galling yoke of Old Lincoln\"; secession is impending; \"abolitionists certainly can't flourish among us\"; Rufus Fitzhugh is considering moving to Arkansas; mother has finished her quilting; cold weather and quilting should never go together; news of family and friends. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary's arrival in Fredericksburg has been harried; she invites him and family to visit; their mother's health is bad - lists symptoms and treatments by Dr. Wallace. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary writes that friends and family have made them feel welcome; inquires about Cousin Mary's \"delicate health\"; Ma's heath has improved; does not know if their income will support them; lists costs for rent and food. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBun describes a party given in honor of Tom Field and his bride; accident with carriage left them in a muddy ditch; Christmas festivities. Includes typescript. \nThe letter includes an addition message: James C. Baytop, no place, writes to Hetty Fitzhugh, no place, thanking her and Rufus Fitzhugh for recommending him to Mr. Taliaferro; will wait to make a decision until Taliaferro sends him an offer. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucie sends a recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains documents on foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, George Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Folder 3 Account of Rufus K. Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, [Virginia] with W[illia]m H. Guns and Co.,[Stanardsville, Virginia?], 2 July 1840. 2 pages. For the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Accounts, 21 December 1840-January 1866. 14 pages. On foodstuffs, farming supplies and equipment charged by Rufus Fitzhugh; notes borrowing money signed by Lucinda Fitzhugh, Geo[rge] Fitzhugh and Rufus Fitzhugh; receipt for purchase of a small child's coffin; receipt of payment on loans of cash and also on the use of slaves. Includes typed copy of document. 4 pages. Folder 3 Accounts and receipts of Mr. R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 13 April 1843-19 May 1859. 5 pages. For the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives. Folder 3 Annual tax receipts of Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh, 1845-1865. 11 pages. Paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves; horses, county and parish levies. Folder 3 Receipt of payment by R[ufus] K[ing] F[itzhugh], 14 January 1852-4 January 1854. 2 pages. For $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by R[ufus K[ing] Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Account of Thomas Carpenter, dec[ease]d, 22 April 1852. 1 page. For lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Adm[inistrator]. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Accounts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,guardian of the Children of Mary Ann Conway, October 1852-1 January 1853. 2 pages. Includes typed copy of document. 2 pages. Folder 3 Receipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, dec[ease]d as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway, 4 January 1853. 1 page. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipts of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh, 21 April 1856-15 March 1858. 2 pages. For furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, [Virginia] and New York [N.Y.]. Folder 3 Account of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhughwith Gibbons and Mitchell, 15 May 1860-19 January 1861. 2 pages. For material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 \"A list of R[ufus] K[ing] Fitzhugh,Jackson County, Arkansas, n.d. 3 pages. Of propherty [sic] destroyed and taken off by the Federat[e]d Army commanded by Gen. Curtis\"; list includes \"seven Negro men,\" the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. Includes typed copy of document. 1 page. Folder 3 Lucie [Baytop, Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia] to \"my dear sister,\" [Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia], n.d. 2 pages. Sends recipe for salting butter and preserving eggs; congratulates her on birth of son; looks forward to seeing her. Includes typed copy of autpgraphed signed letter. 1 page. Folder 3 Receipt [of Rufus K. Fitzhugh], n.d. 1 page.D. For the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the purchase of foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, clothing and housewares. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts and receipts of Mr. Rufus King Fitzhugh for the purchase of shrubbery, trees and bee hives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of Thomas Carpenter, deceased, for lodging and meals as settled by John Weaver, Administrator. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Rufus King Fitzhugh, guardian of the children of Mary Ann Conway. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account of Rufus King Fitzhugh with Gibbons and Mitchell for material, hardware, clothing, school books, and candy. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $70.00; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $30.22 1/4; receipt of payment by Rufus King Fitzhugh for $90.00. Includes typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for bonds from the estate of Verlinda T. Conway, deceased, as distributed by Battalie F. T. Conway. Typescript included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA receipt for furnishings and carriage accessories bought in Richmond, Virginia and New York, N.Y.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of Rufus K. Fitzhugh for the purchase of trees, shrubbery and flowers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnual tax receipts of Rufus King Fitzhugh paid to the Sheriff of Greene County for land, slaves, horses, county and parish levies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of Rufus King Fitzhugh, Jackson County, Arkansas, of property destroyed by the Federated Army commanded by Gen. Curtis. The list includes \"seven Negro men\", the house, farm animals, tools, and crops. 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