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Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Dickson Family Papers, 1769-1924, Ms1988-094, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Dickson Family Papers, 1769-1924, Ms1988-094, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_38302d5600958a1e835db472b2c30d32\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. 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Peyton, the oldest child of William Snyder and Willianna Newman Peyton lived from 1839 to 1914 and was a postmaster in Rapidan. His father worked for the Orange and Alexandria railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. His siblings were James Franklin, Anna Maria Genevieve (\"Jennie\"), George Quintus \"Crooks\", Francis Bradley \"Bradley\", Alexander Newman, \"Newman,\" Lucy Jane, and Philip Barbour. According to Halbrook D. Swanke, editor of the published diary of John William Peyton, \"Eyewitness to War in Virginia,1861-1865 The Civil War Diary of John Wiliam Peyton,\" Peyton","\"had a close relationship with the railroads, which provided him with access to the news and military actions of the opposing forces. The operations of the railroad and the bridge over the Rapidan River were essential to the movement of troops, arms, supplies, and equipment. Peyton bought and sold quantities of sugar, apples, and tobacco. His home was used by many guests from all walks of life. From wounded soldiers and generals to doctors, lawyers, trainmen, and travelers, he was the center of local affairs in the midst of the killing fields of battle.\"","Swank adds that","\"Peyton, physically unable to join the army, remained in Rapidan, which was a strategic location and community on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad and the Rapidan River. Within the triangle of Manassas, Orange Court House, and Fredericksburg, the Raccoon and Somerville fords would be used time and again by elements of the Union and Confederate armies. Early November 1863 was the last time Robert E. Lee would move up to or across the Rapidan River. When the armies moved away from Spotsylvania on May 21, 1864, they left behind the bloodiest ground in North American history.\"","Source:\nPeyton, John William. \"Eyewitness to War in Virginia, 1861-1865: The Civil War Diary of John William Peyton\" (Civil War Heritage Series, 16) Paperback – January 1, 2003, Walbrook D. Swank (Author, Editor)Shippensburg, Pa. Burd Street Press, 2003.","MSS 4944-a are Alan J. Shotwell's transcribed excerpts, notes, and copies of Peyton's Civil War diary with illustrative maps of the area.The diary is also microfilmed (M-687). There is also microfilm  (M-689)of his brother's diary (George Quentin Peyton).","Catalogued separately is a book that was a publication of the diaries, \"Eyewitness to War in Virginia 1861-1865: The Civil War Diary of John William Peyton, edited by Walbrook D. Swank. (using the microfilm) https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u4021865.","Topics in the diary and notes include military maneuvers and engagements, pillages by the troops, deserters, flight of enslaved persons, and the burning and rebuilding of his home.","Donated by Alan J. Shotwell, 15 July 2016. This collection was originally a deposit from Alice Peyton Taylor on December 3, 1954 and January 18, 1955. Special Collections microfilmed the collection (M-687 and M-689) and returned the originals to the owner. This collection from Alan Shotwell are the originals.","Peyton's diaries cover the Civil War and Reconstruction periods and frequently mention conflicts, specifically the Yankees and how many people were killed on both sides of battlefields. His diary entries describe the Yankees being at his home and near his neighbors in Rapidan, Virginia. Many southern generals are mentioned including General (Stonewall Thomas) Jackson, General (J.E.B.) Stuart, and General (Richard S.) Ewell. There are also references to President (Andrew) Johnson.","Peyton writes on May 31, 1865, \"The people of the South quietly awaiting to see what the Yankees are going to do with them.\" He also mentions enslaved people, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Amendment to the Constitution, abolitionists, and the exclusion of southern representation in Congress.","Peyton starts every entry with comments about the weather, and activities of the family. He also writes about family social events and local Baptist church activities.Included in the collection are two letters from William Alexander Hill about the Baptist Church in Madison, Virginia.","In addition to the 44 small handwritten diaries of John William Peyton, there are also four account books and a bound transcription of the diaries from 1862-1865. (The diaries are fragile and not always legible.)","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["John William \"John Billy\" Peyton diaries and account books, 1862/1911"],"collection_ssim":["John William \"John Billy\" Peyton diaries and account books, 1862/1911"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["MSS 4944","Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/1619"],"unitid_tesim":["MSS 4944","Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/1619"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"geogname_ssm":["United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate"],"geogname_ssim":["United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate"],"places_ssim":["United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library"],"creators_ssim":["Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was a gift from Alan J. Shotwell to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 15 July 2016. On December 3, 1954  and January 18, 1955 we received a deposit of these diaries from Alice Peyton Taylor and microfilmed (M-687) them and then returned them to the owner. Now they have made their way here as a gift. There is also microfilm of the diary of his brother George Quinton Peyton M-689.","A book \"Eyewitness to War in Virginia, 1861-1865: the Civil War diary of John William Peyton\" has also been written (using the microfilm M-687) https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u4021865. There are also related collections MSS 4944-a and MSS 4944-b, and M-689 George Quinton Peyton diary (brother of John William Peyton)."],"access_subjects_ssim":["diaries","Account books"],"access_subjects_ssm":["diaries","Account books"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["0.8 Cubic Feet 3 document boxes"],"extent_tesim":["0.8 Cubic Feet 3 document boxes"],"genreform_ssim":["diaries","Account books"],"date_range_isim":[1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is open for research use.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The collection is open for research use."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn William \"John Billy\" Peyton’'s daily diary depicts his life in Rapidan, Virginia, during the United States Civil War. Peyton, the oldest child of William Snyder and Willianna Newman Peyton lived from 1839 to 1914 and was a postmaster in Rapidan. His father worked for the Orange and Alexandria railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. His siblings were James Franklin, Anna Maria Genevieve (\"Jennie\"), George Quintus \"Crooks\", Francis Bradley \"Bradley\", Alexander Newman, \"Newman,\" Lucy Jane, and Philip Barbour. According to Halbrook D. Swanke, editor of the published diary of John William Peyton, \"Eyewitness to War in Virginia,1861-1865 The Civil War Diary of John Wiliam Peyton,\" Peyton \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"had a close relationship with the railroads, which provided him with access to the news and military actions of the opposing forces. The operations of the railroad and the bridge over the Rapidan River were essential to the movement of troops, arms, supplies, and equipment. Peyton bought and sold quantities of sugar, apples, and tobacco. His home was used by many guests from all walks of life. From wounded soldiers and generals to doctors, lawyers, trainmen, and travelers, he was the center of local affairs in the midst of the killing fields of battle.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSwank adds that \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Peyton, physically unable to join the army, remained in Rapidan, which was a strategic location and community on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad and the Rapidan River. Within the triangle of Manassas, Orange Court House, and Fredericksburg, the Raccoon and Somerville fords would be used time and again by elements of the Union and Confederate armies. Early November 1863 was the last time Robert E. Lee would move up to or across the Rapidan River. When the armies moved away from Spotsylvania on May 21, 1864, they left behind the bloodiest ground in North American history.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSource:\nPeyton, John William. \"Eyewitness to War in Virginia, 1861-1865: The Civil War Diary of John William Peyton\" (Civil War Heritage Series, 16) Paperback – January 1, 2003, Walbrook D. Swank (Author, Editor)Shippensburg, Pa. Burd Street Press, 2003.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["John William \"John Billy\" Peyton’'s daily diary depicts his life in Rapidan, Virginia, during the United States Civil War. Peyton, the oldest child of William Snyder and Willianna Newman Peyton lived from 1839 to 1914 and was a postmaster in Rapidan. His father worked for the Orange and Alexandria railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. His siblings were James Franklin, Anna Maria Genevieve (\"Jennie\"), George Quintus \"Crooks\", Francis Bradley \"Bradley\", Alexander Newman, \"Newman,\" Lucy Jane, and Philip Barbour. According to Halbrook D. Swanke, editor of the published diary of John William Peyton, \"Eyewitness to War in Virginia,1861-1865 The Civil War Diary of John Wiliam Peyton,\" Peyton","\"had a close relationship with the railroads, which provided him with access to the news and military actions of the opposing forces. The operations of the railroad and the bridge over the Rapidan River were essential to the movement of troops, arms, supplies, and equipment. Peyton bought and sold quantities of sugar, apples, and tobacco. His home was used by many guests from all walks of life. From wounded soldiers and generals to doctors, lawyers, trainmen, and travelers, he was the center of local affairs in the midst of the killing fields of battle.\"","Swank adds that","\"Peyton, physically unable to join the army, remained in Rapidan, which was a strategic location and community on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad and the Rapidan River. Within the triangle of Manassas, Orange Court House, and Fredericksburg, the Raccoon and Somerville fords would be used time and again by elements of the Union and Confederate armies. Early November 1863 was the last time Robert E. Lee would move up to or across the Rapidan River. When the armies moved away from Spotsylvania on May 21, 1864, they left behind the bloodiest ground in North American history.\"","Source:\nPeyton, John William. \"Eyewitness to War in Virginia, 1861-1865: The Civil War Diary of John William Peyton\" (Civil War Heritage Series, 16) Paperback – January 1, 2003, Walbrook D. Swank (Author, Editor)Shippensburg, Pa. Burd Street Press, 2003."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 4944, John W. Peyton diaries and account books, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["MSS 4944, John W. Peyton diaries and account books, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 4944-a are Alan J. Shotwell's transcribed excerpts, notes, and copies of Peyton's Civil War diary with illustrative maps of the area.The diary is also microfilmed (M-687). There is also microfilm  (M-689)of his brother's diary (George Quentin Peyton). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCatalogued separately is a book that was a publication of the diaries, \"Eyewitness to War in Virginia 1861-1865: The Civil War Diary of John William Peyton, edited by Walbrook D. Swank. 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There is also microfilm  (M-689)of his brother's diary (George Quentin Peyton).","Catalogued separately is a book that was a publication of the diaries, \"Eyewitness to War in Virginia 1861-1865: The Civil War Diary of John William Peyton, edited by Walbrook D. Swank. (using the microfilm) https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u4021865.","Topics in the diary and notes include military maneuvers and engagements, pillages by the troops, deserters, flight of enslaved persons, and the burning and rebuilding of his home.","Donated by Alan J. Shotwell, 15 July 2016. This collection was originally a deposit from Alice Peyton Taylor on December 3, 1954 and January 18, 1955. Special Collections microfilmed the collection (M-687 and M-689) and returned the originals to the owner. This collection from Alan Shotwell are the originals."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePeyton's diaries cover the Civil War and Reconstruction periods and frequently mention conflicts, specifically the Yankees and how many people were killed on both sides of battlefields. His diary entries describe the Yankees being at his home and near his neighbors in Rapidan, Virginia. Many southern generals are mentioned including General (Stonewall Thomas) Jackson, General (J.E.B.) Stuart, and General (Richard S.) Ewell. There are also references to President (Andrew) Johnson. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeyton writes on May 31, 1865, \"The people of the South quietly awaiting to see what the Yankees are going to do with them.\" He also mentions enslaved people, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Amendment to the Constitution, abolitionists, and the exclusion of southern representation in Congress. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePeyton starts every entry with comments about the weather, and activities of the family. He also writes about family social events and local Baptist church activities.Included in the collection are two letters from William Alexander Hill about the Baptist Church in Madison, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the 44 small handwritten diaries of John William Peyton, there are also four account books and a bound transcription of the diaries from 1862-1865. 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There are also references to President (Andrew) Johnson.","Peyton writes on May 31, 1865, \"The people of the South quietly awaiting to see what the Yankees are going to do with them.\" He also mentions enslaved people, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Amendment to the Constitution, abolitionists, and the exclusion of southern representation in Congress.","Peyton starts every entry with comments about the weather, and activities of the family. He also writes about family social events and local Baptist church activities.Included in the collection are two letters from William Alexander Hill about the Baptist Church in Madison, Virginia.","In addition to the 44 small handwritten diaries of John William Peyton, there are also four account books and a bound transcription of the diaries from 1862-1865. 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Apperson was made by the Library of Virginia in January 1976 and is available at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. The Civil War letters of Harvey Black were published in 1995 in a volume edited by Glenn L. McMullen, which is available in the Rare Book Collection and in Newman Library.","The papers are arranged into series corresponding to the creators of the material and subseries by type of material.","Series include the following:","Series I. Harvey Black Papers\nSeries II. Black Family Papers\nSeries III. Germanicus Kent Papers\nSeries IV. Black Family Business Records\nSeries V. John S. Apperson Papers\nSeries VI. Mary E. Apperson Papers\nSeries VII. Alexander Apperson Papers\nSeries VIII. Harvey B. Apperson Political Scrapbooks\nSeries IX. Blacksburg Mining and Manufacturing Company\nSeries X. Assorted Papers","In 1889, Elizabeth Black of Blacksburg, Virginia, married John Apperson of Marion, joining the Black and Kent families of Blacksburg with the Apperson family. Elizabeth Black's father Harvey Black and John S. Apperson served together in the 4th Virginia, 1st Brigade during the American Civil War. Black was a regimental surgeon and Apperson was a hospital steward under his command.","Harvey Black (1827-1888) was a native of Blacksburg and a grandson of town founder John Black. (Harvey Black did not use the e in his given name, but as an adult he regularly signed his name as H. Black and he was almost always identified publicly as Harvey Black.) After attending local schools, he began studying medicine under two local doctors. In 1847, he volunteered to serve in the Mexican War in the 1st Regiment Virginia Volunteers; three months later, he was made a hospital steward. He entered medical school at the University of Virginia in 1848 and graduated in June 1849. That fall, he took a four-month journey, on horseback, from western Virginia through the upper Mid-West as far west as Iowa. He decided to settle in Blacksburg and opened a medical practice there in 1852. The same year, he married Mary Kent of Blacksburg.","On August 2, 1861, Harvey Black was appointed regimental surgeon in the 4th Virginia, 1st Brigade, known as the Stonewall Brigade. John Apperson, who had enlisted with the Smyth Blues of Smyth County, Virginia, in April 1861, was appointed hospital steward under the command of Harvey Black in March 1862. Black and Apperson served together with the 4th regiment until late 1862. They provided medical care to the wounded at first Manassas, second Manassas, and the Battle of Fredericksburg. In late 1862, Black was appointed surgeon of the field hospital of the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, and brought Apperson with him. Both served in this hospital until the end of the war, taking care of recuperating soldiers who were wounded of the Second Corps' major engagements, including the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 and the Spotsylvania Campaign in 1864. Black assisted Hunter Holmes McGuire with the amputation of Stonewall Jackson's arm on May 3, 1863.","After the Civil War, Harvey Black resumed his medical practice in Blacksburg. He was elected president of the Medical Society of Virginia in 1872. He played an instrumental role in the founding of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in Blacksburg in 1872. He was the first rector of the Board of Visitors.","From 1786 to 1882, Harvey Black was Superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Williamsburg. In 1884, he was appointed to the board of a proposed state mental hospital for southwestern Virginia. In 1885, he was elected to represent Montgomery County in the House of Delegates and served two sessions. In the House, he influenced the decision to locate the new hospital in Marion. In 1887, Black became the first superintendent of the new Southwestern State Lunatic Asylum in Marion. He appointed John S. Apperson assistant physician there. Harvey Black died in Richmond in October 1888 and was buried in Westview Cemetery in Blacksburg.","John S. Apperson (1837-1908) was born in Locust Grove, Virginia, and moved to Smyth County in 1859. He took a job splitting rails and began to study medicine under local physician William Faris. In 1861, Apperson enlisted in the Smyth Blues, organized as Company D, 4th Virginia. After the Civil War, he studied medicine at the University of Virginia, earning a degree in 1867. He returned to Smyth County and married Victoria Hull in 1868. They lived in Chilhowie, and Apperson practiced medicine and farmed. They had seven children.","John Apperson's first wife died in 1887. The same year, he took a job as assistant physician under Harvey Black at the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia in Marion. When Harvey Black died in 1888, Apperson resigned his position at the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum and established a medical practice in Marion. In 1889, he married Elizabeth, daughter of his friend and mentor Harvey Black. They had four children: Harvey, Alexander, Kent, and Mary.","After his second marriage, John Apperson pursued a career in business. He was one of eight founders of Staley's Creek Manganese and Iron Company. In 1906, he expanded the operations of the Marion Foundry and Milling Company into the Marion Foundry and Machine Works. He also promoted the building of the Marion and Rye Valley Railroad.","In 1892, the Virginia Board of World's Fair Managers employed Apperson to collect items and transport Virginia exhibits to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. John Apperson died in Marion in 1908. His wife Elizabeth died in Blacksburg in 1942.","Harvey Black Apperson (1890-1948), the oldest child of John Apperson and Elizabeth Black, lived in Salem, Virginia, and practiced law in Roanoke for thirty years. He became active in Democratic Party politics in the 1920s. In a special election in 1933, he was elected to represent Floyd, Franklin, Montgomery, and Roanoke counties and the cities of Radford and Roanoke in the State Senate. He served on the State Corporation Commission from 1944 to 1947 and was Chairman of the Commission from June 1944 to 1947. Governor William Tuck appointed him Attorney General in August 1947, and he took office October 7, 1947. He died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Richmond on February 2, 1948. Alexander Apperson worked at the Marion Foundry and Machine Works for a period and later moved to Birmingham, Alabama.","Germanicus Kent (1791-1861) and Arabella Amiss Kent (1809-1951), parents of Harvey Black's wife Mary, are also documented in this collection. Germanicus Kent was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and attended Yale College. Circa 1822, he moved to Huntsville, Alabama, and worked as a cotton merchant. In 1827, he married Arabella Amiss of Blacksburg. According to a family account, Germanicus Kent left Huntsville in 1834 at the insistence of his brother Aratus Kent, a missionary in Illinois who opposed slavery. Aratus Kent was a founder of Beloit and Rockford colleges in Illinois. The family moved to Illinois in 1834. Lewis Kent (also known as Lewis Lemon), who was enslaved by Germanicus Kent in North Carolina when he was a boy, moved with the family and later purchased his freedom and settled in Iowa. Germanicus Kent is considered a founder of the town of Rockford, Illinois, and served in the Illinois state legislature. Mary Kent, born in 1836, was the first child of European ancestry born in Rockford. The family returned to Arabella's hometown of Blacksburg in 1843.","Sources\n      Glenn L. McMullen, \"Tending the Wounded: Two Virginians in the Confederate Medical Corps,\" Virginia Cavalcade, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Spring 1991), 172-183\n      A Surgeon with Stonewall Jackson: The Civil War Letters of Dr. Harvey Black, edited by Glenn L. McMullen (Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1995)\n      Biographical sketches of John S. Apperson by Glenn McMullen and of Harvey Black Apperson, by Crandall Shiflett in John T. Kneebone, J. Jefferson Looney, Brent Tartar, and Sandra Gioia Treadway, eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Vol. 1 (The Library of Virginia, 1998), 181-183\n      \"Germanicus A. Kent: Founder of Rockford, Illinois,\" published by the Rockford Historical Society, n.d.","The guide to the Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","The papers were previously organized into three collections: the Black Family Papers, Ms1974-003; the Apperson Family Papers, Ms1974-017; and the Kent Family Papers, Ms1974-018. They were further processed and merged into one collection in 2002. Additional description was completed in 2021.","Three boxes are unprocessed. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information.","See the following materials related to these families, which are also at Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives:","James Randal Kent Papers, Ms1987-031","Elizabeth Kent Adams Papers, Ms1990-045","Medical Bill Signed by Dr. Harvey Black, Ms2009-084","Bell, Kent, Cloyd, Withrow Family Collection, Ms2008-040","The Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers, 1779-1984 (bulk 1821-1948) documents the families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia. The collection comprises American Civil War letters of Dr. Harvey Black, Civil War diaries of John Apperson, records and correspondence pertaining to nineteenth-century Blacksburg residents Edwin Amiss, his sister Arabella Amiss Kent, and her husband Germanicus Kent, cotton trader and Rockford, Illinois pioneer; and account books, correspondence, and photographs of several members of the Black, Kent, and Apperson families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia. The collection is divided into the following major series: Harvey Black Papers, Black Family Papers, Germanicus Kent Papers, Black Family Business Records, John S. Apperson Papers, Mary E. Apperson Papers, Alexander Apperson Papers, and Harvey B. Apperson Political Scrapbooks.","Series I. Harvey Black Papers, 1847-1888, contains the following subseries: Diaries, Civil War Letters, General Correspondence, Medical Career Records, and Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. It also includes one photograph, ca. 1865, of Harvey Black.","Dating 1861 to 1864, the Civil War Letters document Black's experiences as a regimental surgeon in the Stonewall Brigade and as surgeon in charge of the Second Corps field hospital. The series comprises letters Black wrote to his wife Mary (Molly) in Blacksburg. Black usually wrote to his wife two to three days after a major battle and reported who, from Blacksburg, had been killed or wounded. He describes the effects of disease on the troops, looking for his brother-in-law Lewis Kent among the Union wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg, the delirium of Stonewall Jackson as he lay dying at Guinea Station, and the difficulties of keeping his family clothed and fed during the war.","The Diaries consist of a short diary Black kept of his journey from Christiansburg to Mexico to fight in the Mexican War and a diary of a four-month journey, on horseback, from western Virginia through West Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Tennessee in the fall of 1849. The Mexican War diary details Black's trip from Christiansburg to Norfolk and eventually Buena Vista, but provides little information about serving in the war. Both diaries contain mainly Black's observations about the towns and cities he passes through. The diary of the trip west compares culture and society in Virginia and the West and references encounters with Virginians who had moved west.","General Correspondence, 1847-1871, comprises two letters Black wrote while he was studying medicine at the University of Virginia, his proposal of marriage to Mary (Molly) Kent, and a folder of letters Black received from family members between 1848 and 1871. One letter describes pioneering in Island County, Washington Territory, in 1853; and two letters from Virginia State Senator John Penn regard the establishment of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, forerunner of Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg.","The Medical Career Records, dating 1848 to 1888, documents Harvey Black's medical career before and after the Civil War and letters of recommendation for the position of Superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia and the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia. This series also contains an 1887 annual report for the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia.","The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College Records span the years 1870 to 1873. This small series consists of a subscription list for the Preston and Olin Institute, an early history of the founding of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, and certificates of appointment to the college's Board of Visitors.","Series II. Black Family Papers, 1779-1911 (bulk 1845-1911): Materials include an 1845 bill of sale for an enslaved girl named Adaline; an 1856 letter from Charles to Alexander Black; photographs of Alexander Black, Kent Black, and Kent's wife Mary Bell Black; a 1911 letter from Mary Kent to her children; and a quilt given to Kent Black by his medical patients, ca. 1890. Additionally, the series has the wedding register of Mary and Kent Black and an invitation to the 1885 Blacksburg Grand Annual Ball.","Series III. Germanicus Kent Papers, 1818-1899: The series comprises Germanicus Kent's cotton books and correspondence with his sons Lewis and John, his brother Aratus Kent, and his brother-in- law Edwin Amiss. The cotton books document Kent's experience as a cotton merchant based in Huntsville, Alabama, 1821 to 1823. They provide lists of cotton prices and copies of correspondence to clients in Nashville and New Orleans. The correspondence describes life in Blacksburg in the 1830s, the Kent family's decision to settle in Virginia after living in Illinois, and Kent's business investments in the west and in Blacksburg. Letters from Edwin Amiss to Arabella and Germanicus Kent pertain to Arabella Kent continuing to enslave people by inheriting her mother's estate. An 1860 letter from Germanicus Kent to Aratus Kent discusses Germanicus Kent's desire to establish contact with the man he formerly enslaved Lewis Lemon Kent, then living in Iowa.","Series IV. Black Family Business Records, 1832-1924: Account books for mercantile establishments in Blacksburg make up the bulk of this series.. It also contains an account book for A.W. Luster; a 1908 inventory for W. Stone \u0026 Son; and a copy of an undated newspaper advertisement for A. Black and Company.","Series V. John S. Apperson Papers, 1858-1915: John Apperson's Civil War Diary is the centerpiece. The diary consist of Apperson's account of his journey, in 1859, from his home in Locust Grove, Virginia to Smyth County in Southwest Virginia. In the Civil War diaries, he describes medical care of soldiers and lists monthly figures of wounded and dead for the Second Corps field hospital. He discusses going onto the battlefield after the fighting stopped at First Manassas, the scene on the morning of the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862; performing his first amputation; and his efforts to continue his medical education during the Civil War. Additionally, this series contains correspondence about Apperson's business career, 1900 and 1910, a catalog for the Marion Foundry and Machine Works, and photographs of John Apperson, Elizabeth Black, and their children.","Series VI. Mary E. Apperson Papers, 1889-1977, and Series VII. Alexander Apperson Papers, 1827-1984: Research files on the Black, Kent, and Apperson families of Blacksburg and Marion compose the bulk of these two series. Materials also include publications pertaining to family history; correspondence with the Rockford, Illinois Historical Society regarding research on Germanicus Kent; correspondence related to other genealogy research; the recollections of Elizabeth Black Apperson about Blacksburg history and buildings; family photographs and a photograph, ca. 1900, of the Alexander Black house in Blacksburg; and family artifacts.","Series VIII. Harvey B. Apperson Political Scrapbooks, 1933-1950: The scrapbooks largely consist of newspaper clippings detailing Harvey B. Apperson's political career and Democratic Party politics in the Roanoke area in the 1930s and in Richmond in the 1940s. Additionally, there are letters and telegrams of congratulation Apperson received when he was appointed Attorney General of Virginia in 1947, telegrams and letters of condolence his wife received upon his death four months later, photographs, and political ephemera.","Series IX. Blacksburg Mining and Manufacturing Company, 1826-1965: Legal documents and correspondence pertain to the division of proceeds of mining investments among the Apperson descendants of Harvey Black. The series also contains maps of Black and Apperson property in Blacksburg, ca. 1949.","Series X. Assorted Papers, 1872, 1912: The last series includes two items, the Louise Caton Travel Diary, 1912, and The Christian Union publication, 1872. The diary of Louise Caton's four-month tour of Europe in 1912 describes her voyage from New York to Genoa on the Laxmia and from Liverpool back to New York on the Celtic. The relationship of Louise Caton to the Black, Kent, and Apperson families is unknown.","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","This collection contains the papers and artifacts of an interrelated family prominent in Blacksburg's history. It includes the American Civil War letters of Confederate surgeon Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diary of hospital steward John S. Apperson, cotton books and correspondence of Germanicus Kent, nineteenth-century account books of a Blacksburg general store, 1912 European travel diary, and the political scrapbooks of State Senator and Attorney General Harvey B. Apperson.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","A. W. Luster","Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade","Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia","Marion Foundry and Machine Works (Marion, Va.)","Preston and Olin Institute (Blacksburg, Va.)","Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia (1887-1935)","Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896)","W. 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W. Luster","Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade","Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia","Marion Foundry and Machine Works (Marion, Va.)","Preston and Olin Institute (Blacksburg, Va.)","Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia (1887-1935)","Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896)","W. Stone \u0026 Son"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Apperson family","Black family","Kent family"],"creators_ssim":["Amiss, Edwin","Apperson, Alex","Apperson, Elizabeth Black","Apperson, Harvey Black, 1890-1948","Apperson, John Samuel, 1837-1904","Apperson, Mary","Black, Harvey, 1827-1888","Black, Kent, active 1876-1890","Black, Mary Kent, b.1836","Caton, Louise","Kent, Germanicus, 1791-1862","Lemon, Lewis","Kent, Lewis (enslaved person)","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","A. W. Luster","Confederate States of America. Army. 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Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers were donated to Virginia Tech from 1955 to 1990. The American Civil War letters of Harvey Black and the Civil War diaries of John Apperson were donated in 1974."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Civil War","Folk, historical, and patent medicine","Genealogy","Local/Regional History and Appalachian South","Medicine","Medicine, Military -- History","Montgomery County (Va.)","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Diaries","Women -- History"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Civil War","Folk, historical, and patent medicine","Genealogy","Local/Regional History and Appalachian South","Medicine","Medicine, Military -- History","Montgomery County (Va.)","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Diaries","Women -- History"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["ca. 7 Cubic Feet 21 boxes and 1 oversize folder"],"extent_tesim":["ca. 7 Cubic Feet 21 boxes and 1 oversize folder"],"date_range_isim":[1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is open to research.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The collection is open to research."],"altformavail_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003ca show=\"_blank\" href=\"https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/collections/show/38\"\u003eSome of this collection has been digitized and is available online.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA microfilm edition of the diary, 1847-1850, of Harvey Black and the American Civil War diaries of John S. Apperson was made by the Library of Virginia in January 1976 and is available at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. The Civil War letters of Harvey Black were published in 1995 in a volume edited by Glenn L. McMullen, which is available in the Rare Book Collection and in Newman Library.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Existence and Location of Copies"],"altformavail_tesim":["Some of this collection has been digitized and is available online.","A microfilm edition of the diary, 1847-1850, of Harvey Black and the American Civil War diaries of John S. Apperson was made by the Library of Virginia in January 1976 and is available at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. The Civil War letters of Harvey Black were published in 1995 in a volume edited by Glenn L. 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Blacksburg Mining and Manufacturing Company\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries X. Assorted Papers\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers are arranged into series corresponding to the creators of the material and subseries by type of material.","Series include the following:","Series I. Harvey Black Papers\nSeries II. Black Family Papers\nSeries III. Germanicus Kent Papers\nSeries IV. Black Family Business Records\nSeries V. John S. Apperson Papers\nSeries VI. Mary E. Apperson Papers\nSeries VII. Alexander Apperson Papers\nSeries VIII. Harvey B. Apperson Political Scrapbooks\nSeries IX. Blacksburg Mining and Manufacturing Company\nSeries X. Assorted Papers"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eIn 1889, Elizabeth Black of Blacksburg, Virginia, married John Apperson of Marion, joining the Black and Kent families of Blacksburg with the Apperson family. Elizabeth Black's father Harvey Black and John S. Apperson served together in the 4th Virginia, 1st Brigade during the American Civil War. Black was a regimental surgeon and Apperson was a hospital steward under his command.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarvey Black (1827-1888) was a native of Blacksburg and a grandson of town founder John Black. (Harvey Black did not use the e in his given name, but as an adult he regularly signed his name as H. Black and he was almost always identified publicly as Harvey Black.) After attending local schools, he began studying medicine under two local doctors. In 1847, he volunteered to serve in the Mexican War in the 1st Regiment Virginia Volunteers; three months later, he was made a hospital steward. He entered medical school at the University of Virginia in 1848 and graduated in June 1849. That fall, he took a four-month journey, on horseback, from western Virginia through the upper Mid-West as far west as Iowa. He decided to settle in Blacksburg and opened a medical practice there in 1852. The same year, he married Mary Kent of Blacksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn August 2, 1861, Harvey Black was appointed regimental surgeon in the 4th Virginia, 1st Brigade, known as the Stonewall Brigade. John Apperson, who had enlisted with the Smyth Blues of Smyth County, Virginia, in April 1861, was appointed hospital steward under the command of Harvey Black in March 1862. Black and Apperson served together with the 4th regiment until late 1862. They provided medical care to the wounded at first Manassas, second Manassas, and the Battle of Fredericksburg. In late 1862, Black was appointed surgeon of the field hospital of the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, and brought Apperson with him. Both served in this hospital until the end of the war, taking care of recuperating soldiers who were wounded of the Second Corps' major engagements, including the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 and the Spotsylvania Campaign in 1864. Black assisted Hunter Holmes McGuire with the amputation of Stonewall Jackson's arm on May 3, 1863.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter the Civil War, Harvey Black resumed his medical practice in Blacksburg. He was elected president of the Medical Society of Virginia in 1872. He played an instrumental role in the founding of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in Blacksburg in 1872. He was the first rector of the Board of Visitors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom 1786 to 1882, Harvey Black was Superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Williamsburg. In 1884, he was appointed to the board of a proposed state mental hospital for southwestern Virginia. In 1885, he was elected to represent Montgomery County in the House of Delegates and served two sessions. In the House, he influenced the decision to locate the new hospital in Marion. In 1887, Black became the first superintendent of the new Southwestern State Lunatic Asylum in Marion. He appointed John S. Apperson assistant physician there. Harvey Black died in Richmond in October 1888 and was buried in Westview Cemetery in Blacksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn S. Apperson (1837-1908) was born in Locust Grove, Virginia, and moved to Smyth County in 1859. He took a job splitting rails and began to study medicine under local physician William Faris. In 1861, Apperson enlisted in the Smyth Blues, organized as Company D, 4th Virginia. After the Civil War, he studied medicine at the University of Virginia, earning a degree in 1867. He returned to Smyth County and married Victoria Hull in 1868. They lived in Chilhowie, and Apperson practiced medicine and farmed. They had seven children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Apperson's first wife died in 1887. The same year, he took a job as assistant physician under Harvey Black at the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia in Marion. When Harvey Black died in 1888, Apperson resigned his position at the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum and established a medical practice in Marion. In 1889, he married Elizabeth, daughter of his friend and mentor Harvey Black. They had four children: Harvey, Alexander, Kent, and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter his second marriage, John Apperson pursued a career in business. He was one of eight founders of Staley's Creek Manganese and Iron Company. In 1906, he expanded the operations of the Marion Foundry and Milling Company into the Marion Foundry and Machine Works. He also promoted the building of the Marion and Rye Valley Railroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1892, the Virginia Board of World's Fair Managers employed Apperson to collect items and transport Virginia exhibits to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. John Apperson died in Marion in 1908. His wife Elizabeth died in Blacksburg in 1942.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarvey Black Apperson (1890-1948), the oldest child of John Apperson and Elizabeth Black, lived in Salem, Virginia, and practiced law in Roanoke for thirty years. He became active in Democratic Party politics in the 1920s. In a special election in 1933, he was elected to represent Floyd, Franklin, Montgomery, and Roanoke counties and the cities of Radford and Roanoke in the State Senate. He served on the State Corporation Commission from 1944 to 1947 and was Chairman of the Commission from June 1944 to 1947. Governor William Tuck appointed him Attorney General in August 1947, and he took office October 7, 1947. He died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Richmond on February 2, 1948. Alexander Apperson worked at the Marion Foundry and Machine Works for a period and later moved to Birmingham, Alabama.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGermanicus Kent (1791-1861) and Arabella Amiss Kent (1809-1951), parents of Harvey Black's wife Mary, are also documented in this collection. Germanicus Kent was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and attended Yale College. Circa 1822, he moved to Huntsville, Alabama, and worked as a cotton merchant. In 1827, he married Arabella Amiss of Blacksburg. According to a family account, Germanicus Kent left Huntsville in 1834 at the insistence of his brother Aratus Kent, a missionary in Illinois who opposed slavery. Aratus Kent was a founder of Beloit and Rockford colleges in Illinois. The family moved to Illinois in 1834. Lewis Kent (also known as Lewis Lemon), who was enslaved by Germanicus Kent in North Carolina when he was a boy, moved with the family and later purchased his freedom and settled in Iowa. Germanicus Kent is considered a founder of the town of Rockford, Illinois, and served in the Illinois state legislature. Mary Kent, born in 1836, was the first child of European ancestry born in Rockford. The family returned to Arabella's hometown of Blacksburg in 1843.\u003c/p\u003e    ","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\n      \u003chead\u003eSources\u003c/head\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003eGlenn L. McMullen, \"Tending the Wounded: Two Virginians in the Confederate Medical Corps,\" Virginia Cavalcade, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Spring 1991), 172-183\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003eA Surgeon with Stonewall Jackson: The Civil War Letters of Dr. Harvey Black, edited by Glenn L. McMullen (Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1995)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003eBiographical sketches of John S. Apperson by Glenn McMullen and of Harvey Black Apperson, by Crandall Shiflett in John T. Kneebone, J. Jefferson Looney, Brent Tartar, and Sandra Gioia Treadway, eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Vol. 1 (The Library of Virginia, 1998), 181-183\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003citem\u003e\"Germanicus A. Kent: Founder of Rockford, Illinois,\" published by the Rockford Historical Society, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\n    \u003c/list\u003e\n  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["In 1889, Elizabeth Black of Blacksburg, Virginia, married John Apperson of Marion, joining the Black and Kent families of Blacksburg with the Apperson family. Elizabeth Black's father Harvey Black and John S. Apperson served together in the 4th Virginia, 1st Brigade during the American Civil War. Black was a regimental surgeon and Apperson was a hospital steward under his command.","Harvey Black (1827-1888) was a native of Blacksburg and a grandson of town founder John Black. (Harvey Black did not use the e in his given name, but as an adult he regularly signed his name as H. Black and he was almost always identified publicly as Harvey Black.) After attending local schools, he began studying medicine under two local doctors. In 1847, he volunteered to serve in the Mexican War in the 1st Regiment Virginia Volunteers; three months later, he was made a hospital steward. He entered medical school at the University of Virginia in 1848 and graduated in June 1849. That fall, he took a four-month journey, on horseback, from western Virginia through the upper Mid-West as far west as Iowa. He decided to settle in Blacksburg and opened a medical practice there in 1852. The same year, he married Mary Kent of Blacksburg.","On August 2, 1861, Harvey Black was appointed regimental surgeon in the 4th Virginia, 1st Brigade, known as the Stonewall Brigade. John Apperson, who had enlisted with the Smyth Blues of Smyth County, Virginia, in April 1861, was appointed hospital steward under the command of Harvey Black in March 1862. Black and Apperson served together with the 4th regiment until late 1862. They provided medical care to the wounded at first Manassas, second Manassas, and the Battle of Fredericksburg. In late 1862, Black was appointed surgeon of the field hospital of the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, and brought Apperson with him. Both served in this hospital until the end of the war, taking care of recuperating soldiers who were wounded of the Second Corps' major engagements, including the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 and the Spotsylvania Campaign in 1864. Black assisted Hunter Holmes McGuire with the amputation of Stonewall Jackson's arm on May 3, 1863.","After the Civil War, Harvey Black resumed his medical practice in Blacksburg. He was elected president of the Medical Society of Virginia in 1872. He played an instrumental role in the founding of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in Blacksburg in 1872. He was the first rector of the Board of Visitors.","From 1786 to 1882, Harvey Black was Superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Williamsburg. In 1884, he was appointed to the board of a proposed state mental hospital for southwestern Virginia. In 1885, he was elected to represent Montgomery County in the House of Delegates and served two sessions. In the House, he influenced the decision to locate the new hospital in Marion. In 1887, Black became the first superintendent of the new Southwestern State Lunatic Asylum in Marion. He appointed John S. Apperson assistant physician there. Harvey Black died in Richmond in October 1888 and was buried in Westview Cemetery in Blacksburg.","John S. Apperson (1837-1908) was born in Locust Grove, Virginia, and moved to Smyth County in 1859. He took a job splitting rails and began to study medicine under local physician William Faris. In 1861, Apperson enlisted in the Smyth Blues, organized as Company D, 4th Virginia. After the Civil War, he studied medicine at the University of Virginia, earning a degree in 1867. He returned to Smyth County and married Victoria Hull in 1868. They lived in Chilhowie, and Apperson practiced medicine and farmed. They had seven children.","John Apperson's first wife died in 1887. The same year, he took a job as assistant physician under Harvey Black at the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia in Marion. When Harvey Black died in 1888, Apperson resigned his position at the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum and established a medical practice in Marion. In 1889, he married Elizabeth, daughter of his friend and mentor Harvey Black. They had four children: Harvey, Alexander, Kent, and Mary.","After his second marriage, John Apperson pursued a career in business. He was one of eight founders of Staley's Creek Manganese and Iron Company. In 1906, he expanded the operations of the Marion Foundry and Milling Company into the Marion Foundry and Machine Works. He also promoted the building of the Marion and Rye Valley Railroad.","In 1892, the Virginia Board of World's Fair Managers employed Apperson to collect items and transport Virginia exhibits to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. John Apperson died in Marion in 1908. His wife Elizabeth died in Blacksburg in 1942.","Harvey Black Apperson (1890-1948), the oldest child of John Apperson and Elizabeth Black, lived in Salem, Virginia, and practiced law in Roanoke for thirty years. He became active in Democratic Party politics in the 1920s. In a special election in 1933, he was elected to represent Floyd, Franklin, Montgomery, and Roanoke counties and the cities of Radford and Roanoke in the State Senate. He served on the State Corporation Commission from 1944 to 1947 and was Chairman of the Commission from June 1944 to 1947. Governor William Tuck appointed him Attorney General in August 1947, and he took office October 7, 1947. He died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Richmond on February 2, 1948. Alexander Apperson worked at the Marion Foundry and Machine Works for a period and later moved to Birmingham, Alabama.","Germanicus Kent (1791-1861) and Arabella Amiss Kent (1809-1951), parents of Harvey Black's wife Mary, are also documented in this collection. Germanicus Kent was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and attended Yale College. Circa 1822, he moved to Huntsville, Alabama, and worked as a cotton merchant. In 1827, he married Arabella Amiss of Blacksburg. According to a family account, Germanicus Kent left Huntsville in 1834 at the insistence of his brother Aratus Kent, a missionary in Illinois who opposed slavery. Aratus Kent was a founder of Beloit and Rockford colleges in Illinois. The family moved to Illinois in 1834. Lewis Kent (also known as Lewis Lemon), who was enslaved by Germanicus Kent in North Carolina when he was a boy, moved with the family and later purchased his freedom and settled in Iowa. Germanicus Kent is considered a founder of the town of Rockford, Illinois, and served in the Illinois state legislature. Mary Kent, born in 1836, was the first child of European ancestry born in Rockford. The family returned to Arabella's hometown of Blacksburg in 1843.","Sources\n      Glenn L. McMullen, \"Tending the Wounded: Two Virginians in the Confederate Medical Corps,\" Virginia Cavalcade, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Spring 1991), 172-183\n      A Surgeon with Stonewall Jackson: The Civil War Letters of Dr. Harvey Black, edited by Glenn L. McMullen (Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1995)\n      Biographical sketches of John S. Apperson by Glenn McMullen and of Harvey Black Apperson, by Crandall Shiflett in John T. Kneebone, J. Jefferson Looney, Brent Tartar, and Sandra Gioia Treadway, eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Vol. 1 (The Library of Virginia, 1998), 181-183\n      \"Germanicus A. Kent: Founder of Rockford, Illinois,\" published by the Rockford Historical Society, n.d."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers, Ms1974-003, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers, Ms1974-003, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers were previously organized into three collections: the Black Family Papers, Ms1974-003; the Apperson Family Papers, Ms1974-017; and the Kent Family Papers, Ms1974-018. They were further processed and merged into one collection in 2002. Additional description was completed in 2021.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree boxes are unprocessed. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The papers were previously organized into three collections: the Black Family Papers, Ms1974-003; the Apperson Family Papers, Ms1974-017; and the Kent Family Papers, Ms1974-018. They were further processed and merged into one collection in 2002. Additional description was completed in 2021.","Three boxes are unprocessed. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the following materials related to these families, which are also at Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_1474.xml\"\u003eJames Randal Kent Papers, Ms1987-031\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_1779.xml\"\u003eElizabeth Kent Adams Papers, Ms1990-045\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_2503.xml\"\u003eMedical Bill Signed by Dr. Harvey Black, Ms2009-084\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_2361.xml\"\u003eBell, Kent, Cloyd, Withrow Family Collection, Ms2008-040\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Archival Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["See the following materials related to these families, which are also at Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives:","James Randal Kent Papers, Ms1987-031","Elizabeth Kent Adams Papers, Ms1990-045","Medical Bill Signed by Dr. Harvey Black, Ms2009-084","Bell, Kent, Cloyd, Withrow Family Collection, Ms2008-040"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers, 1779-1984 (bulk 1821-1948) documents the families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia. The collection comprises American Civil War letters of Dr. Harvey Black, Civil War diaries of John Apperson, records and correspondence pertaining to nineteenth-century Blacksburg residents Edwin Amiss, his sister Arabella Amiss Kent, and her husband Germanicus Kent, cotton trader and Rockford, Illinois pioneer; and account books, correspondence, and photographs of several members of the Black, Kent, and Apperson families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia. The collection is divided into the following major series: Harvey Black Papers, Black Family Papers, Germanicus Kent Papers, Black Family Business Records, John S. Apperson Papers, Mary E. Apperson Papers, Alexander Apperson Papers, and Harvey B. Apperson Political Scrapbooks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries I. Harvey Black Papers, 1847-1888, contains the following subseries: Diaries, Civil War Letters, General Correspondence, Medical Career Records, and Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. It also includes one photograph, ca. 1865, of Harvey Black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDating 1861 to 1864, the Civil War Letters document Black's experiences as a regimental surgeon in the Stonewall Brigade and as surgeon in charge of the Second Corps field hospital. The series comprises letters Black wrote to his wife Mary (Molly) in Blacksburg. Black usually wrote to his wife two to three days after a major battle and reported who, from Blacksburg, had been killed or wounded. He describes the effects of disease on the troops, looking for his brother-in-law Lewis Kent among the Union wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg, the delirium of Stonewall Jackson as he lay dying at Guinea Station, and the difficulties of keeping his family clothed and fed during the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Diaries consist of a short diary Black kept of his journey from Christiansburg to Mexico to fight in the Mexican War and a diary of a four-month journey, on horseback, from western Virginia through West Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Tennessee in the fall of 1849. The Mexican War diary details Black's trip from Christiansburg to Norfolk and eventually Buena Vista, but provides little information about serving in the war. Both diaries contain mainly Black's observations about the towns and cities he passes through. The diary of the trip west compares culture and society in Virginia and the West and references encounters with Virginians who had moved west.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Correspondence, 1847-1871, comprises two letters Black wrote while he was studying medicine at the University of Virginia, his proposal of marriage to Mary (Molly) Kent, and a folder of letters Black received from family members between 1848 and 1871. One letter describes pioneering in Island County, Washington Territory, in 1853; and two letters from Virginia State Senator John Penn regard the establishment of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, forerunner of Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Medical Career Records, dating 1848 to 1888, documents Harvey Black's medical career before and after the Civil War and letters of recommendation for the position of Superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia and the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia. This series also contains an 1887 annual report for the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College Records span the years 1870 to 1873. This small series consists of a subscription list for the Preston and Olin Institute, an early history of the founding of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, and certificates of appointment to the college's Board of Visitors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries II. Black Family Papers, 1779-1911 (bulk 1845-1911): Materials include an 1845 bill of sale for an enslaved girl named Adaline; an 1856 letter from Charles to Alexander Black; photographs of Alexander Black, Kent Black, and Kent's wife Mary Bell Black; a 1911 letter from Mary Kent to her children; and a quilt given to Kent Black by his medical patients, ca. 1890. Additionally, the series has the wedding register of Mary and Kent Black and an invitation to the 1885 Blacksburg Grand Annual Ball.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Germanicus Kent Papers, 1818-1899: The series comprises Germanicus Kent's cotton books and correspondence with his sons Lewis and John, his brother Aratus Kent, and his brother-in- law Edwin Amiss. The cotton books document Kent's experience as a cotton merchant based in Huntsville, Alabama, 1821 to 1823. They provide lists of cotton prices and copies of correspondence to clients in Nashville and New Orleans. The correspondence describes life in Blacksburg in the 1830s, the Kent family's decision to settle in Virginia after living in Illinois, and Kent's business investments in the west and in Blacksburg. Letters from Edwin Amiss to Arabella and Germanicus Kent pertain to Arabella Kent continuing to enslave people by inheriting her mother's estate. An 1860 letter from Germanicus Kent to Aratus Kent discusses Germanicus Kent's desire to establish contact with the man he formerly enslaved Lewis Lemon Kent, then living in Iowa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV. Black Family Business Records, 1832-1924: Account books for mercantile establishments in Blacksburg make up the bulk of this series.. It also contains an account book for A.W. Luster; a 1908 inventory for W. Stone \u0026amp; Son; and a copy of an undated newspaper advertisement for A. Black and Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries V. John S. Apperson Papers, 1858-1915: John Apperson's Civil War Diary is the centerpiece. The diary consist of Apperson's account of his journey, in 1859, from his home in Locust Grove, Virginia to Smyth County in Southwest Virginia. In the Civil War diaries, he describes medical care of soldiers and lists monthly figures of wounded and dead for the Second Corps field hospital. He discusses going onto the battlefield after the fighting stopped at First Manassas, the scene on the morning of the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862; performing his first amputation; and his efforts to continue his medical education during the Civil War. Additionally, this series contains correspondence about Apperson's business career, 1900 and 1910, a catalog for the Marion Foundry and Machine Works, and photographs of John Apperson, Elizabeth Black, and their children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI. Mary E. Apperson Papers, 1889-1977, and Series VII. Alexander Apperson Papers, 1827-1984: Research files on the Black, Kent, and Apperson families of Blacksburg and Marion compose the bulk of these two series. Materials also include publications pertaining to family history; correspondence with the Rockford, Illinois Historical Society regarding research on Germanicus Kent; correspondence related to other genealogy research; the recollections of Elizabeth Black Apperson about Blacksburg history and buildings; family photographs and a photograph, ca. 1900, of the Alexander Black house in Blacksburg; and family artifacts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VIII. Harvey B. Apperson Political Scrapbooks, 1933-1950: The scrapbooks largely consist of newspaper clippings detailing Harvey B. Apperson's political career and Democratic Party politics in the Roanoke area in the 1930s and in Richmond in the 1940s. Additionally, there are letters and telegrams of congratulation Apperson received when he was appointed Attorney General of Virginia in 1947, telegrams and letters of condolence his wife received upon his death four months later, photographs, and political ephemera.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IX. Blacksburg Mining and Manufacturing Company, 1826-1965: Legal documents and correspondence pertain to the division of proceeds of mining investments among the Apperson descendants of Harvey Black. The series also contains maps of Black and Apperson property in Blacksburg, ca. 1949.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries X. Assorted Papers, 1872, 1912: The last series includes two items, the Louise Caton Travel Diary, 1912, and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Christian Union\u003c/emph\u003e publication, 1872. The diary of Louise Caton's four-month tour of Europe in 1912 describes her voyage from New York to Genoa on the Laxmia and from Liverpool back to New York on the Celtic. The relationship of Louise Caton to the Black, Kent, and Apperson families is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Black, Kent, and Apperson Family Papers, 1779-1984 (bulk 1821-1948) documents the families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia. The collection comprises American Civil War letters of Dr. Harvey Black, Civil War diaries of John Apperson, records and correspondence pertaining to nineteenth-century Blacksburg residents Edwin Amiss, his sister Arabella Amiss Kent, and her husband Germanicus Kent, cotton trader and Rockford, Illinois pioneer; and account books, correspondence, and photographs of several members of the Black, Kent, and Apperson families of Blacksburg and Marion, Virginia. The collection is divided into the following major series: Harvey Black Papers, Black Family Papers, Germanicus Kent Papers, Black Family Business Records, John S. Apperson Papers, Mary E. Apperson Papers, Alexander Apperson Papers, and Harvey B. Apperson Political Scrapbooks.","Series I. Harvey Black Papers, 1847-1888, contains the following subseries: Diaries, Civil War Letters, General Correspondence, Medical Career Records, and Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. It also includes one photograph, ca. 1865, of Harvey Black.","Dating 1861 to 1864, the Civil War Letters document Black's experiences as a regimental surgeon in the Stonewall Brigade and as surgeon in charge of the Second Corps field hospital. The series comprises letters Black wrote to his wife Mary (Molly) in Blacksburg. Black usually wrote to his wife two to three days after a major battle and reported who, from Blacksburg, had been killed or wounded. He describes the effects of disease on the troops, looking for his brother-in-law Lewis Kent among the Union wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg, the delirium of Stonewall Jackson as he lay dying at Guinea Station, and the difficulties of keeping his family clothed and fed during the war.","The Diaries consist of a short diary Black kept of his journey from Christiansburg to Mexico to fight in the Mexican War and a diary of a four-month journey, on horseback, from western Virginia through West Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Tennessee in the fall of 1849. The Mexican War diary details Black's trip from Christiansburg to Norfolk and eventually Buena Vista, but provides little information about serving in the war. Both diaries contain mainly Black's observations about the towns and cities he passes through. The diary of the trip west compares culture and society in Virginia and the West and references encounters with Virginians who had moved west.","General Correspondence, 1847-1871, comprises two letters Black wrote while he was studying medicine at the University of Virginia, his proposal of marriage to Mary (Molly) Kent, and a folder of letters Black received from family members between 1848 and 1871. One letter describes pioneering in Island County, Washington Territory, in 1853; and two letters from Virginia State Senator John Penn regard the establishment of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, forerunner of Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg.","The Medical Career Records, dating 1848 to 1888, documents Harvey Black's medical career before and after the Civil War and letters of recommendation for the position of Superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia and the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia. This series also contains an 1887 annual report for the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia.","The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College Records span the years 1870 to 1873. This small series consists of a subscription list for the Preston and Olin Institute, an early history of the founding of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, and certificates of appointment to the college's Board of Visitors.","Series II. Black Family Papers, 1779-1911 (bulk 1845-1911): Materials include an 1845 bill of sale for an enslaved girl named Adaline; an 1856 letter from Charles to Alexander Black; photographs of Alexander Black, Kent Black, and Kent's wife Mary Bell Black; a 1911 letter from Mary Kent to her children; and a quilt given to Kent Black by his medical patients, ca. 1890. Additionally, the series has the wedding register of Mary and Kent Black and an invitation to the 1885 Blacksburg Grand Annual Ball.","Series III. Germanicus Kent Papers, 1818-1899: The series comprises Germanicus Kent's cotton books and correspondence with his sons Lewis and John, his brother Aratus Kent, and his brother-in- law Edwin Amiss. The cotton books document Kent's experience as a cotton merchant based in Huntsville, Alabama, 1821 to 1823. They provide lists of cotton prices and copies of correspondence to clients in Nashville and New Orleans. The correspondence describes life in Blacksburg in the 1830s, the Kent family's decision to settle in Virginia after living in Illinois, and Kent's business investments in the west and in Blacksburg. Letters from Edwin Amiss to Arabella and Germanicus Kent pertain to Arabella Kent continuing to enslave people by inheriting her mother's estate. An 1860 letter from Germanicus Kent to Aratus Kent discusses Germanicus Kent's desire to establish contact with the man he formerly enslaved Lewis Lemon Kent, then living in Iowa.","Series IV. Black Family Business Records, 1832-1924: Account books for mercantile establishments in Blacksburg make up the bulk of this series.. It also contains an account book for A.W. Luster; a 1908 inventory for W. Stone \u0026 Son; and a copy of an undated newspaper advertisement for A. Black and Company.","Series V. John S. Apperson Papers, 1858-1915: John Apperson's Civil War Diary is the centerpiece. The diary consist of Apperson's account of his journey, in 1859, from his home in Locust Grove, Virginia to Smyth County in Southwest Virginia. In the Civil War diaries, he describes medical care of soldiers and lists monthly figures of wounded and dead for the Second Corps field hospital. He discusses going onto the battlefield after the fighting stopped at First Manassas, the scene on the morning of the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862; performing his first amputation; and his efforts to continue his medical education during the Civil War. Additionally, this series contains correspondence about Apperson's business career, 1900 and 1910, a catalog for the Marion Foundry and Machine Works, and photographs of John Apperson, Elizabeth Black, and their children.","Series VI. Mary E. Apperson Papers, 1889-1977, and Series VII. Alexander Apperson Papers, 1827-1984: Research files on the Black, Kent, and Apperson families of Blacksburg and Marion compose the bulk of these two series. Materials also include publications pertaining to family history; correspondence with the Rockford, Illinois Historical Society regarding research on Germanicus Kent; correspondence related to other genealogy research; the recollections of Elizabeth Black Apperson about Blacksburg history and buildings; family photographs and a photograph, ca. 1900, of the Alexander Black house in Blacksburg; and family artifacts.","Series VIII. Harvey B. Apperson Political Scrapbooks, 1933-1950: The scrapbooks largely consist of newspaper clippings detailing Harvey B. Apperson's political career and Democratic Party politics in the Roanoke area in the 1930s and in Richmond in the 1940s. Additionally, there are letters and telegrams of congratulation Apperson received when he was appointed Attorney General of Virginia in 1947, telegrams and letters of condolence his wife received upon his death four months later, photographs, and political ephemera.","Series IX. Blacksburg Mining and Manufacturing Company, 1826-1965: Legal documents and correspondence pertain to the division of proceeds of mining investments among the Apperson descendants of Harvey Black. The series also contains maps of Black and Apperson property in Blacksburg, ca. 1949.","Series X. Assorted Papers, 1872, 1912: The last series includes two items, the Louise Caton Travel Diary, 1912, and The Christian Union publication, 1872. The diary of Louise Caton's four-month tour of Europe in 1912 describes her voyage from New York to Genoa on the Laxmia and from Liverpool back to New York on the Celtic. The relationship of Louise Caton to the Black, Kent, and Apperson families is unknown."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_36b4a62ab56ab232aa259e6ea40349e2\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThis collection contains the papers and artifacts of an interrelated family prominent in Blacksburg's history. It includes the American Civil War letters of Confederate surgeon Dr. Harvey Black, the Civil War diary of hospital steward John S. Apperson, cotton books and correspondence of Germanicus Kent, nineteenth-century account books of a Blacksburg general store, 1912 European travel diary, and the political scrapbooks of State Senator and Attorney General Harvey B. Apperson.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["This collection contains the papers and artifacts of an interrelated family prominent in Blacksburg's history. 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Correspondence; II. Family and Personal Papers; III. Egbert Watson Magruder Papers; IV. Miscellaneous; V. Bound Volumes; and Oversize. Folders are arranged alphabetically within each series. Oversize items are arranged chronologically. Included in the miscellaneous series are printed material and photographs.","Egbert Watson Magruder was born on October\n         25, 1868, in \n          Albemarle County, Virginia, the son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Anne Evalina (Norris) Magruder . After his\n         early education in public and private schools, he entered \n          Hampden-Sydney College in 1887, and\n         received his B.A. degree in 1891. He completed courses in\n         chemistry at the \n          University of Virginia, and entered \n          Johns Hopkins University in 1892, where he\n         was assistant in the department of chemistry during his last\n         two years. Afterwards, he received an appointment to the \n          Mississippi College of Agriculture . For\n         approximately fifteen years, until his resignation in 1915, \n          Egbert Watson Magruder was the Chief\n         Chemist and Pure Food Expert of the \n          State Department of Agriculture . During\n         part of this time, he was also director of the \n          Virginia Test Farm at \n          Saxe, Charlotte County . In 1915, he\n         accepted an offer to become the Chief Chemist of the \n          F. S. 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In addition, he wrote\n         numerous articles on agricultural chemistry and agriculture,\n         including such topics as the manufacture and use of commercial\n         fertilizer, the cultivation of wheat and tobacco, and food and\n         food adulterations. \n          Egbert Watson Magruder owned a farm of ca.\n         100 acres at \n          Dry Bridge, Chesterfield County; he\n         remained with the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company until his\n         death in 1945.","Horatio \"Rashe\" Erskine Magruder was born\n         on September 8, 1846 in \n          Albemarle County, the son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Maria Louisa (Minor) Magruder . He was\n         educated in private country neighborhood schools before\n         entering the \n          Confederate Army at age seventeen in 1864.\n         He served in the \n          Rockbridge Artillery of Stonewall\n         Jackson's old Brigade, and took part in the battles of The \n          Wilderness and \n          Spotsylvania Courthouse. He was captured,\n         and imprisoned at \n          Point Lookout, Maryland; after a lengthy\n         illness in prison, he was exchanged, and returned to General \n          Robert E. Lee 's army in 1865 after his\n         recuperation. He was in the retreat of the \n          Confederate Army to \n          Appomattox .","After the war, \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder attended the \n          University of Virginia, studying Latin,\n         Modern Languages, and Mathematics. He returned to \"Glenmore,\" the family home, where he\n         formed a partnership with his father, and eventually took over\n         management of the plantation. He was one of the most prominent\n         farmers in \n          Albemarle County . \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder married his\n         cousin, \n          Julia May Chewning, of \"Island Home,\" \n          Albemarle County, on December 12, 1894.\n         He was a member of the vestry of \n          Grace Episcopal Church in \n          Cismont, the \n          American Clan Gregor Society, and\n         president of the \n          Monticello Wine Company of \n          Charlottesville and the \n          Albemarle Mutual Fire Insurance Company .\n         He died on January 19, 1924 at \"Glenmore.\"","John Bowie Magruder was born on November\n         10, 1839, in \n          Albemarle County, the eldest son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Maria Louisa (Minor) Magruder . After\n         graduating from the \n          Albemarle Military Academy, he entered\n         the \n          University of Virginia, where he received\n         his M.A. degree in 1860. In the spring of 1861, he took a\n         special three-month military course at the \n          Virginia Military Institute in \n          Lexington, and raised a company in \n          Albemarle County known as the \n          Rivanna Guards . As captain, he took the\n         company to \n          Richmond in June 1861 where they were\n         mustered in with the \n          57th Regiment under \n          Lewis A. Armistead . He was promoted to\n         Colonel after the Battle of \n          Fredericksburg on December 22, 1862. He\n         was wounded during Pickett's Charge in the battle of \n          Gettysburg July 3, 1863, and carried to a\n         hospital near the battlefield where he died on July 5th.","This collection consists of ca. 2988 items (10 Hollinger\n         boxes and oversize items), ca. 1787-1945, pertaining chiefly\n         to the career of \n          Egbert Watson Magruder as an agricultural\n         chemist for the \n          Department of Agriculture of Virginia and,\n         later, for the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company of \n          Norfolk, Virginia . Included are\n         correspondence, reports, articles and speeches, laboratory\n         data, architectural drawings and blueprints, printed material,\n         and photographs. \n          Egbert Watson Magruder collected material,\n         18981945, on various subjects related to the different aspects\n         of his work, including agriculture, chemistry, chemists'\n         associations, fertilizer, horticulture, livestock, and\n         mineralogy. Also included are \n          Magruder family papers, consisting of\n         correspondence, legal and business papers, plats and surveys,\n         and related papers. Topics or items of interest include\n         several letters,1861-1863, from \n          John Bowie Magruder during his service in\n         the \n          Confederate Army during the Civil War\n         describing several battles, including \n          Fredericksburg and \n          Suffolk, and camp life at \n          Fort Dillard, \n          Fort Drury (near \n          Fredericksburg), and on White Marsh Road\n         near \n          Suffolk; an 1861 account book kept by \n          John Bowie Magruder for the \n          Rivanna Guards; a letter, October 17,\n         1864, to \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder from his son, \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder while a prisoner\n         at \n          Point Lookout, Maryland, during the war;\n         papers pertaining to the purchase of \"Glenmore\"; papers concerning various \n          Virginia estates such as \"Edgehill\" and \"Glenmore\" in \n          Albemarle County, \"Blenheim\" in Caroline County, \"Union Mills\" in \n          Fluvanna County, and \"River Bend\" in \n          Spotsylvania County; an account book from\n         the Charlottesville Grange; and genealogical\n         and biographical information for the Magruder family and allied families.","See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers of the Magruder Family"],"collection_ssim":["Papers of the Magruder Family"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["2733-b"],"unitid_tesim":["2733-b"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"access_terms_ssm":["See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was donated to the Library on February 19, 1985, by: \n             R. Gregory Magruder, Evalina Magruder, Allaville Magruder, and Elizabeth Henshaw , all of Charlottesville, Virginia; Frances Lummis Lloyd of  Longmont, Colorado; Lt. Col. Mason M. Lummis of Alexandria, Virginia; and, Gen. Carter B. Magruder of Arlington, Virginia ."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is divided into six series: I. Correspondence; II. Family and Personal Papers; III. Egbert Watson Magruder Papers; IV. Miscellaneous; V. Bound Volumes; and Oversize. Folders are arranged alphabetically within each series. Oversize items are arranged chronologically. 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He completed courses in\n         chemistry at the \n          University of Virginia, and entered \n          Johns Hopkins University in 1892, where he\n         was assistant in the department of chemistry during his last\n         two years. Afterwards, he received an appointment to the \n          Mississippi College of Agriculture . For\n         approximately fifteen years, until his resignation in 1915, \n          Egbert Watson Magruder was the Chief\n         Chemist and Pure Food Expert of the \n          State Department of Agriculture . During\n         part of this time, he was also director of the \n          Virginia Test Farm at \n          Saxe, Charlotte County . In 1915, he\n         accepted an offer to become the Chief Chemist of the \n          F. S. 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In addition, he wrote\n         numerous articles on agricultural chemistry and agriculture,\n         including such topics as the manufacture and use of commercial\n         fertilizer, the cultivation of wheat and tobacco, and food and\n         food adulterations. \n          Egbert Watson Magruder owned a farm of ca.\n         100 acres at \n          Dry Bridge, Chesterfield County; he\n         remained with the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company until his\n         death in 1945.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          Horatio \"Rashe\" Erskine Magruder was born\n         on September 8, 1846 in \n          Albemarle County, the son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Maria Louisa (Minor) Magruder . He was\n         educated in private country neighborhood schools before\n         entering the \n          Confederate Army at age seventeen in 1864.\n         He served in the \n          Rockbridge Artillery of Stonewall\n         Jackson's old Brigade, and took part in the battles of The \n          Wilderness and \n          Spotsylvania Courthouse. He was captured,\n         and imprisoned at \n          Point Lookout, Maryland; after a lengthy\n         illness in prison, he was exchanged, and returned to General \n          Robert E. Lee 's army in 1865 after his\n         recuperation. He was in the retreat of the \n          Confederate Army to \n          Appomattox .\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter the war, \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder attended the \n          University of Virginia, studying Latin,\n         Modern Languages, and Mathematics. He returned to \"Glenmore,\" the family home, where he\n         formed a partnership with his father, and eventually took over\n         management of the plantation. He was one of the most prominent\n         farmers in \n          Albemarle County . \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder married his\n         cousin, \n          Julia May Chewning, of \"Island Home,\" \n          Albemarle County, on December 12, 1894.\n         He was a member of the vestry of \n          Grace Episcopal Church in \n          Cismont, the \n          American Clan Gregor Society, and\n         president of the \n          Monticello Wine Company of \n          Charlottesville and the \n          Albemarle Mutual Fire Insurance Company .\n         He died on January 19, 1924 at \"Glenmore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          John Bowie Magruder was born on November\n         10, 1839, in \n          Albemarle County, the eldest son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Maria Louisa (Minor) Magruder . After\n         graduating from the \n          Albemarle Military Academy, he entered\n         the \n          University of Virginia, where he received\n         his M.A. degree in 1860. In the spring of 1861, he took a\n         special three-month military course at the \n          Virginia Military Institute in \n          Lexington, and raised a company in \n          Albemarle County known as the \n          Rivanna Guards . As captain, he took the\n         company to \n          Richmond in June 1861 where they were\n         mustered in with the \n          57th Regiment under \n          Lewis A. Armistead . He was promoted to\n         Colonel after the Battle of \n          Fredericksburg on December 22, 1862. He\n         was wounded during Pickett's Charge in the battle of \n          Gettysburg July 3, 1863, and carried to a\n         hospital near the battlefield where he died on July 5th.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Egbert Watson Magruder was born on October\n         25, 1868, in \n          Albemarle County, Virginia, the son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Anne Evalina (Norris) Magruder . After his\n         early education in public and private schools, he entered \n          Hampden-Sydney College in 1887, and\n         received his B.A. degree in 1891. He completed courses in\n         chemistry at the \n          University of Virginia, and entered \n          Johns Hopkins University in 1892, where he\n         was assistant in the department of chemistry during his last\n         two years. Afterwards, he received an appointment to the \n          Mississippi College of Agriculture . For\n         approximately fifteen years, until his resignation in 1915, \n          Egbert Watson Magruder was the Chief\n         Chemist and Pure Food Expert of the \n          State Department of Agriculture . During\n         part of this time, he was also director of the \n          Virginia Test Farm at \n          Saxe, Charlotte County . In 1915, he\n         accepted an offer to become the Chief Chemist of the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company of \n          Norfolk, Virginia, where his duties\n         included taking charge of all chemical laboratories, and\n         performing analytical and investigation work.","On Novermber 8, 1916, \n          Egbert Watson Magruder married the former \n          Frances Byrd Alvey of \n          Richmond, Virginia . \n          Egbert Watson Magruder was a member of the\n         Board of Visitors of \n          Virginia Polytechnic Institute, \n          Blacksburg, Virginia, the \n          American Chemical Society, \n          Association of Official Agricultural\n         Chemists, \n          Virginia Academy of Science, and \n          American Society of Agronomy, as well as\n         being a member of the following clubs: \n          Virginia Chemists' Club, \n          Hampton Roads Chemists' Club (as one of\n         the organizers and first president of each), the \n          Kiwanis Club, \n          Norfolk Country Club, and the \n          Norfolk Town Club . In addition, he wrote\n         numerous articles on agricultural chemistry and agriculture,\n         including such topics as the manufacture and use of commercial\n         fertilizer, the cultivation of wheat and tobacco, and food and\n         food adulterations. \n          Egbert Watson Magruder owned a farm of ca.\n         100 acres at \n          Dry Bridge, Chesterfield County; he\n         remained with the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company until his\n         death in 1945.","Horatio \"Rashe\" Erskine Magruder was born\n         on September 8, 1846 in \n          Albemarle County, the son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Maria Louisa (Minor) Magruder . He was\n         educated in private country neighborhood schools before\n         entering the \n          Confederate Army at age seventeen in 1864.\n         He served in the \n          Rockbridge Artillery of Stonewall\n         Jackson's old Brigade, and took part in the battles of The \n          Wilderness and \n          Spotsylvania Courthouse. He was captured,\n         and imprisoned at \n          Point Lookout, Maryland; after a lengthy\n         illness in prison, he was exchanged, and returned to General \n          Robert E. Lee 's army in 1865 after his\n         recuperation. He was in the retreat of the \n          Confederate Army to \n          Appomattox .","After the war, \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder attended the \n          University of Virginia, studying Latin,\n         Modern Languages, and Mathematics. He returned to \"Glenmore,\" the family home, where he\n         formed a partnership with his father, and eventually took over\n         management of the plantation. He was one of the most prominent\n         farmers in \n          Albemarle County . \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder married his\n         cousin, \n          Julia May Chewning, of \"Island Home,\" \n          Albemarle County, on December 12, 1894.\n         He was a member of the vestry of \n          Grace Episcopal Church in \n          Cismont, the \n          American Clan Gregor Society, and\n         president of the \n          Monticello Wine Company of \n          Charlottesville and the \n          Albemarle Mutual Fire Insurance Company .\n         He died on January 19, 1924 at \"Glenmore.\"","John Bowie Magruder was born on November\n         10, 1839, in \n          Albemarle County, the eldest son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Maria Louisa (Minor) Magruder . After\n         graduating from the \n          Albemarle Military Academy, he entered\n         the \n          University of Virginia, where he received\n         his M.A. degree in 1860. In the spring of 1861, he took a\n         special three-month military course at the \n          Virginia Military Institute in \n          Lexington, and raised a company in \n          Albemarle County known as the \n          Rivanna Guards . As captain, he took the\n         company to \n          Richmond in June 1861 where they were\n         mustered in with the \n          57th Regiment under \n          Lewis A. Armistead . He was promoted to\n         Colonel after the Battle of \n          Fredericksburg on December 22, 1862. He\n         was wounded during Pickett's Charge in the battle of \n          Gettysburg July 3, 1863, and carried to a\n         hospital near the battlefield where he died on July 5th."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of the Magruder Family, Accession #2733-b, Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Papers of the Magruder Family, Accession #2733-b, Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of ca. 2988 items (10 Hollinger\n         boxes and oversize items), ca. 1787-1945, pertaining chiefly\n         to the career of \n          Egbert Watson Magruder as an agricultural\n         chemist for the \n          Department of Agriculture of Virginia and,\n         later, for the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company of \n          Norfolk, Virginia . Included are\n         correspondence, reports, articles and speeches, laboratory\n         data, architectural drawings and blueprints, printed material,\n         and photographs. \n          Egbert Watson Magruder collected material,\n         18981945, on various subjects related to the different aspects\n         of his work, including agriculture, chemistry, chemists'\n         associations, fertilizer, horticulture, livestock, and\n         mineralogy. Also included are \n          Magruder family papers, consisting of\n         correspondence, legal and business papers, plats and surveys,\n         and related papers. Topics or items of interest include\n         several letters,1861-1863, from \n          John Bowie Magruder during his service in\n         the \n          Confederate Army during the Civil War\n         describing several battles, including \n          Fredericksburg and \n          Suffolk, and camp life at \n          Fort Dillard, \n          Fort Drury (near \n          Fredericksburg), and on White Marsh Road\n         near \n          Suffolk; an 1861 account book kept by \n          John Bowie Magruder for the \n          Rivanna Guards; a letter, October 17,\n         1864, to \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder from his son, \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder while a prisoner\n         at \n          Point Lookout, Maryland, during the war;\n         papers pertaining to the purchase of \"Glenmore\"; papers concerning various \n          Virginia estates such as \"Edgehill\" and \"Glenmore\" in \n          Albemarle County, \"Blenheim\" in Caroline County, \"Union Mills\" in \n          Fluvanna County, and \"River Bend\" in \n          Spotsylvania County; an account book from\n         the Charlottesville Grange; and genealogical\n         and biographical information for the Magruder family and allied families.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of ca. 2988 items (10 Hollinger\n         boxes and oversize items), ca. 1787-1945, pertaining chiefly\n         to the career of \n          Egbert Watson Magruder as an agricultural\n         chemist for the \n          Department of Agriculture of Virginia and,\n         later, for the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company of \n          Norfolk, Virginia . Included are\n         correspondence, reports, articles and speeches, laboratory\n         data, architectural drawings and blueprints, printed material,\n         and photographs. \n          Egbert Watson Magruder collected material,\n         18981945, on various subjects related to the different aspects\n         of his work, including agriculture, chemistry, chemists'\n         associations, fertilizer, horticulture, livestock, and\n         mineralogy. Also included are \n          Magruder family papers, consisting of\n         correspondence, legal and business papers, plats and surveys,\n         and related papers. Topics or items of interest include\n         several letters,1861-1863, from \n          John Bowie Magruder during his service in\n         the \n          Confederate Army during the Civil War\n         describing several battles, including \n          Fredericksburg and \n          Suffolk, and camp life at \n          Fort Dillard, \n          Fort Drury (near \n          Fredericksburg), and on White Marsh Road\n         near \n          Suffolk; an 1861 account book kept by \n          John Bowie Magruder for the \n          Rivanna Guards; a letter, October 17,\n         1864, to \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder from his son, \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder while a prisoner\n         at \n          Point Lookout, Maryland, during the war;\n         papers pertaining to the purchase of \"Glenmore\"; papers concerning various \n          Virginia estates such as \"Edgehill\" and \"Glenmore\" in \n          Albemarle County, \"Blenheim\" in Caroline County, \"Union Mills\" in \n          Fluvanna County, and \"River Bend\" in \n          Spotsylvania County; an account book from\n         the Charlottesville Grange; and genealogical\n         and biographical information for the Magruder family and allied families."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":118,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:55:15.948Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00036_c05_c02"}},{"id":"viu_viu00032_c02_c06","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"Account Books of John Roy\n Baylor., 1859/1870","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00032_c02_c06#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viu_viu00032_c02_c06","ref_ssm":["viu_viu00032_c02_c06"],"id":"viu_viu00032_c02_c06","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00032","_root_":"viu_viu00032","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00032_c02","parent_ssi":"viu_viu00032_c02","parent_ssim":["Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915","SERIES II: LEGAL \u0026 FINANCIAL\n PAPERS"],"parent_ids_ssim":["viu_viu00032","viu_viu00032_c02"],"title_filing_ssi":"Account Books of John Roy\n                  Baylor.","title_ssm":["Account Books of John Roy\n Baylor."],"title_tesim":["Account Books of John Roy\n Baylor."],"normalized_title_ssm":["Account Books of John Roy\n Baylor., 1859/1870"],"text":["Account Books of John Roy\n Baylor., 1859/1870","Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915","SERIES II: LEGAL \u0026 FINANCIAL\n PAPERS","Box Box 2"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915","SERIES II: LEGAL \u0026 FINANCIAL\n PAPERS"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915","SERIES II: LEGAL \u0026 FINANCIAL\n PAPERS"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1859/1870"],"unitdate_other_ssim":["1859-1870"],"level_ssm":["Item"],"level_ssim":["Item"],"component_level_isim":[2],"sort_isi":9,"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"collection_ssim":["Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915"],"containers_ssim":["Box Box 2"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"parent_access_restrict_tesm":["There are no restrictions."],"parent_access_terms_tesm":["See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"date_range_isim":[1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870],"_nest_path_":"/components#1/components#5","timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:55:15.948Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_viu00032","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00032","_root_":"viu_viu00032","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00032","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu00032.xml","title_ssm":["Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915"],"title_tesim":["Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915"],"text":["Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915","2257","2000 items","There are no restrictions.","The \n          Baylor Family Papers have been arranged in\n         the following six series:","I. Correspondence (Box 1)","II. Legal and Financial Papers (Boxes 2-3)","III. Miscellaneous Papers (Box 4)","IV. Notebooks and Bound Volumes (Boxes 5-7)","V. Papers of \n          James B. Baylor and the \n          United States Coast \u0026 Geodetic\n         Survey (Boxes 8-11)","VI. Oversize Items \u0026 2M Volumes","John Baylor 1 ( \n         1650- \n         1720) resident of \n          Gloucester County, Virginia, and later \n          King and Queen County, Virginia, married \n          Lucy Todd O'Brien (ca.1681-?) of \n          New Kent County, Virginia, in \n         1698. They were believed to have had three\n         offspring, \n          Frances Baylor, \n          Robert Baylor, and \n          John Baylor 2. The children of their son,\n         Colonel \n          John2 Baylor ( \n         1705- \n         1772), and \n          Frances Walker (?- \n         1783) were as follows:","1) \n          Courtney Baylor m. Jasper Clayton of \n          Gloucester County","2) \n          Lucy Baylor m. \n          John Armistead","3) \n          Frances Baylor m. \n          John Nicholson","4) \n          Elizabeth Baylor unmarried","5) \n          John Baylor 3 ( \n         1750- \n         1808) m. \n          Frances Norton ( \n         1760- \n         1815) in \n         1778","6) \n          George Baylor ( \n         1752- \n         1784) m. \n          Lucy Page in \n         1778","7) \n          Walker Baylor ( ? - \n         1823) m. \n          Jane Bledsoe","8) \n          Robert Baylor m. Miss Gwynne","The children of \n          John Baylor 3 and \n          Frances Norton were:","1) \n          Frances Courtney Baylor ( \n         1779- \n         1780)","2) \n          Courtney Orange Baylor ( \n         1781-? ) m. _____ Fox","3) \n          Lucy Elizabeth Todd Baylor ( ? - \n         1823) m. [Sen. \n          John H. Upshaw ] in \n         1809","4) \n          Louisa Henrietta Baylor m. [ \n          William T. Upshaw ]","5) \n          Susanna Frances Baylor ( \n         1783- \n         1837) m. \n          John Sutton","6) \n          John Baylor 4 m. \n          Maria Ann Roy ( \n         1790- \n         1850) in \n         1819","7) Dr. \n          George Daniel Baylor m. Miss Lewis","The issue of \n          John Baylor 4 and \n          Maria Ann Roy was Dr. \n          John Roy Baylor","John Baylor ( \n         1821- \n         1897) who married \n          Anne Bowen of \n          Albemarle County and produced the\n         following offspring:","1) Captain \n          James Bowen Baylor ( \n         1849- \n         1924) m. \n          Ellen Carter Bruce (died ca. \n         1899) in ca. \n         1881, producing three children: \n          Evelyn Courtney Blackford Baylor, \n          Anne Baylor, and \n          John Baylor ( \n         1890- \n         1968).","2) \n          Maria Roy Baylor","3) \n          John Roy Baylor, Jr. ( \n         1851- \n         1926) m. \n          Julia Howard","The papers of the \n             Baylor family of \"Newmarket,\" \n             Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, contain ca.\n            2000 items (11 Hollinger boxes, 4.5 linear feet),\n            1653-1915, and consist of correspondence, legal and\n            financial papers, ledgers, genealogical material, students\n            notebooks and bound volumes, scrapbooks, photographs, a\n            diary, literary compositions, military papers pertaining to\n            the Revolutionary War, newsclippings, the records of James Bowen Baylor and the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and miscellaneous papers.\n        These papers pertain to John Baylor (1650-1720) of \n             Gloucester County, and King and Queen County, Virginia, and his wife, \n             Lucy Todd O'Brien of New Kent County, Virginia, and four generations of their descendants. The \n             John Baylor ledgers, 1719-1755, reveal that John Baylor was a wealthy merchant,\n            planter, and shipowner. He also served as a burgess, representing Gloucester County in the 1693 General Assembly and King and Queen County in 1718.\n        John Baylor's son, John Baylor (1705-1772), greatly increased the family landholdings when he received a royal\n            land grant in 1726 in what was to become Caroline County, Virginia. John Baylor was educated in \n             England, at the \n             Putney Grammer School and \n             Caius College, \n             Cambridge. While in \n             England, he developed a keen interest\n            in thoroughbred horses and horse racing, going so far as to\n            name his new home, \" \n             Newmarket, \" for the famous English\n            racing center. He became an important colonial horse\n            importer and breeder whose stables greatly contributed to\n            the development of American thoroughbreds. \n             John Baylor also rendered public\n            service to the newly formed county of \n             Caroline, as a colonel in the county\n            militia and a burgess in 1742-1749, and 1756-1765.\n        All four of the sons of \n             John Baylor (1705-1772) contributed in\n            some way to the American effort during the Revolutionary\n            War. \n             John Baylor (1750-1808), the heir of \" \n             Newmarket, \" while unable to fight due\n            to a childhood injury, gave financial support to the war\n            effort. He later had difficulties in shedding his\n            reputation as a \"Tory\" because he had gone back to \n             England in 1778 to marry his cousin, \n             Frances Norton (1760-1815) and had to\n            live in \n             Europe until they could obtain a return\n            passage to \n             America.\n        \n                George Baylor (1752-1784) was a member\n            of the \n             Caroline County Committee of Safety,\n            1775-1776, and from 1775-1777, he was aide-de-camp of\n            General \n             George Washington. He was commanding\n            officer of the \n             3rd Regiment Light Dragoons when he was\n            wounded and captured on September 28, 1778. He was\n            eventually exchanged and his regiment was consolidated with\n            the \n             First Continental Dragoons on November\n            9, 1782, which he commanded until the end of the war. On\n            September 30, 1783, he received his commission as a Brevet\n            Brigadier General.\n        \n                Walker Baylor served as a lieutenant\n            and captain of the \n             3rd Regiment Light Dragoons during the\n            Revolution. He along with his other brother \n             Robert Baylor, who also served in the\n            Revolution, immigrated to \n             Kentucky. Later \n             Robert Baylor apparently settled in the\n             Pearl River area of the \n             Mississippi Territory.\n        The estate of \n             John Baylor (1750-1808) was hopelessly\n            entangled when he inherited it from his father in 1772 and\n            much of it was lost through his own ineptitude as a\n            businessman and the dishonesty of others. However, the\n            house and two thousand acres were entailed and could not be\n            alienated; these were passed on to his son, \n             John Baylor ( ? ), who married \n             Maria Ann Roy and produced Dr. \n             John Roy Baylor (1821-1897). It was Dr.\n             John Roy Baylor's son, Captain \n             James Bowen Baylor (1848-1924), who was\n            a member of the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic\n            Survey team.\n        The correspondence series contains the correspondence\n            from family members, friends, and business associates of\n            all the above generations of the \n             Baylor family, beginning with Colonel \n             John Baylor (1705-1772). Letters\n            pertaining to the sojourn of \n             John Baylor (1750-1808) in \n             England prior to and during the\n            Revolutionary War include the following: a reference to\n            Colonel \n             John Baylor's son at school in \n             Caius College, \n             Cambridge (August 12,1769); his\n            intentions of returning to the \n             United States (December 28, 1770); the\n            advice of \n             William Bond, a former teacher of \n             John Baylor, for him to seek further\n            educational opportunities upon the continent rather than to\n            return to college studies (July 15, 1773); \n             William Bond's request for \n             John Baylor to ignore \"national evils\"\n            and to visit \n             England (May 4, 1778); \n             John Baylor's trip to \n             England to wed his cousin, \n             Frances Norton (1778); a reference to\n            the Baylor's leaving \n             England, and comments concerning the\n            fashions and decadence of \n             England (May 4, 1779).\n        Correspondence concerning events leading up to and\n            including the Revolutionary War includes: \n             Sam Waterman's support of the Stamp\n            Act repeal and the danger of shipping livestock from \n             London to \n             John Baylor (March 6, 1766); a Mr.\n            Grand's letter refusing to advise \n             John Baylor due to threat of prison\n            (March 28, [1772]): copies of \n             Committee of Correspondence letters to \n             John Norton asking him to keep them\n            informed regarding events in \n             England and Acts of \n             Parliament and his reply (April 6,\n            \u0026 July 6, 1773); a recommendation for the Baron of\n            [Bonstetten] who served in the Danish and Prussian Wars\n            (September 27,1777); \n             John Baylor as a prisoner aboard a\n            British ship, Thomas [Thortican], possibly due to suspicion\n            that he was reportedly carrying a treaty between \n             France and the \n             United States (February 5, 1778); the\n            birth of Colonel \n             George Baylor's son (May 6, 1779); \n             Walker Baylor asking his brother to\n            send him some money to cover his expenses incurred in\n            fighting in the Revolution (August 13, 1779); a statement\n            of \n             Edmund Pendleton, the Chairman of the \n             Caroline Committee of Correspondence,\n            regarding the loyalty of \n             John Baylor to the colonial cause,\n            relating that \n             John Baylor supported the actions of\n            the Americans at \n             Lexington, and returned to \n             England only to marry (October 13,\n            1779); the statement of \n             George Baylor regarding the loyalty of\n            his brother evidenced by his opinion of events at \n             Lexington, and his recommendation of\n            Baron de Wolfen in the service of the \n             American Army, and concluding with the\n            explanation that \n             John Baylor did not fight due to a\n            physical infirmity acquired in his youth (October 14,1779);\n             John Wormeley requests \n             John Baylor to use his influence to\n            give him an escort to visit his father in \n             Virginia (August 16, 1782); and a\n            request for \n             George Baylor to help recover money\n            form one of the officers of his regiment for Mr. Alexander\n            (September 3, 1783).\n        Other subjects of note include: the tobacco growing and\n            export business (May 8, 1741; March 6, 1766; August 12,\n            1769; February 5, 1778; June 29, 1788; March 10, 1789; June\n            6, 1789; March 15, 1793; \u0026 February 5, 1790); iron and\n            forge business (October 11, 1771; \u0026 April 13, 1774);\n            horses and horse breeding (\"Sober John\"-October25, 1754;\n            \"Fearnought\"-March 21, 1771; October 30, 1756; March 6,\n            1766; and July 17, 1800); and a discussion about whether\n            the Spanish will allow free trade up the \n             Mississippi River and \n             Ohio River ([December 4], 1783).\n        Several letters mention slaves and slavery. Among these\n            are: slaves for sale (April 14, 1770; March 21, 1771;\n            September 14, 1771; \u0026 June 19, 1811); mention of slave\n            passes, a slave detained on the road for lack of one, and a\n            visit of slaves with the family in \n             Gloucester County, Virginia (July 12,\n            1813); the prices of slaves in the \n             Pearl River area of the \n             Mississippi Territory and prices of\n            hire (November 28, 1816); and a letter from a Quaker, \n             George Boone, of \n             Berks County, Pennsylvania, attempting\n            to verify that \n             James Martin, a black man who claimed\n            to have been born to free parents and wrongly sold as part\n            of Colonel \n             John Baylor's estate, was indeed a\n            free black and not legally owned by \n             Thomas Adams of \n             Orange County, Virginia (August 12,\n            1818).\n        There is a group of letters between \n             John Baylor, \n             John Frere, and \n             John Baylor's former teacher in \n             England, \n             William Bond, concerning education for\n            his two sons, \n             John Baylor and \n             George Daniel Baylor. This\n            correspondence sheds some light on the attempts of\n            Americans to educate their sons following the Revolution\n            and includes: a discussion of \n             Eton and \n             Rugby and changes that have occurred at\n             Cambridge (August 17, 1793); a\n            suggestion to try \n             Glasgow in \n             Scotland (March 1, 1796); the\n            possibility of using a tutor (February 27, 1797); terms to\n            secure a tutor from \n             England and his opinion of \n             Eton (October 2, 1797); and a\n            suggestion to use an American clergyman for a tutor (June\n            22, 1799 \u0026 June 30, 1800).\n        Other subjects mentioned include: the French Revolution\n            (July 2, August 17, and [September 18], 1793); a\n            description of fashions ([September 18], 1793); a\n            description of \n             Warm Springs, \n             Bath County, Virginia (August 26,\n            1805); the career of \n             Napoleon Bonaparte (June 30 \u0026 July\n            17, 1800); the settlement of \n             John Baylor's estate (December 26,\n            1801; \u0026 January 3, 1804); the \n             Louisiana Purchase (September 17,\n            1803); a woman's viewpoint and thoughts (April 9, 1802);\n            the interdiction of His Majesty's ships from American ports\n            and the War of 1812 (August 29, 1808; March 25, 1812; and\n            July 18, 1813); an excellent discussion of social and\n            economic life in \n             Pearl River, \n             Mississippi Territory (November 28,\n            1816); the financial difficulties of the \n             Baylor family (September 1, 1819; \u0026\n            July 25, 1820); a meteorite falling in \n             Washington, D.C. (March 18, 1821); the\n            celebration in \n             Richmond of the French victory over the\n            Turkish Dey of \n             Algiers (September 13, 1830); the\n            medical studies of \n             John Roy Baylor (January 31, 1842);\n            discussion of \n             George Catlin's book about American\n            Indians and the explorations of \n             John C. Fremont and \n             Charles Wilkes (April 30, 1846); a\n            detailed description of \n             William P. Palmer's trip to \n             Europe (October 30, 1865); and the\n            voyage of Presbyterian missionary \n             E. Lanc[aster] to \n             Rio De Janeiro (August 26, 1869).\n        Events during the Civil War period are represented by\n            the following: \n             William P. Palmer's comments\n            concerning \n             John Brown's raid at \n             Harper's Ferry and the preparations for\n            his hanging (November 22 \u0026 December 1, 1859); the\n            struggle for possession of the \n             Fredericksburg Water Power\n            Company (March 17 \u0026 November 3, 1863; \u0026\n            September 5, 1865); the building of \n             Confederate stables and cabins for a\n            camp in \n             Louisa near the gold mines of \n             Louisa County's \n             Walnut Grove and \n             Slate Grove, formerly owned by Yankee\n            speculators (December 30, 1863); requests for donations of\n            flour and foodstuffs for soldiers (February 25, 1865); and\n            the assassination of \n             Abraham Lincoln deplored (April 25,\n            1865). Related topics include the mention of seeing \n             Robert E. Lee at \n             White Sulpher Springs, West\n            Virginia (August 17, 1867) and a letter from \n             Henry Stephens Randall declining to\n            visit the Old Dominion until the scars of the Civil War are\n            healed (n.d.).\n        Other post-Civil War subjects include: racial tensions\n            (August 11, 1878) and the \n             Richmond riots during which a white\n            policeman was killed in \n             Old Market Hall (March 20, 1870); \n             John Roy Baylor's assurances that his\n            black tenant farmers were not involved in the violence in \n             Caroline County (n.d.); life in \n             St. Louis, Missouri (September \u0026\n            July 3, 1873); a description of a shoot-out in \n             Uvalde County, Texas (May 10, 1881);\n            the black vote during Reconstruction in \n             Virginia (October 28, 1889); mention of\n             Micajah Woods, the \n             University of Virginia, and \n             Monticello (October 21, 1887); and the \n             Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n            Company (March 21, 1873; \u0026 May 20, 1881).\n        Letters containing genealogical information include the\n            following families: the \n             Norton family (June 22, 1828); \n             Robert Baylor's (August 14, 1828); the\n             Frere family (June 28, 1872 \u0026 n.d.);\n            the \n             Roy family (March 21, 1887 \u0026 January\n            8, 1885); the \n             Braxton family (April 20, 1810); the \n             Baylor family (February 20, 1895); and\n            the \n             Texas \n                Baylor family (April 28 \u0026 May 2,\n            1894).\n        For a list of individual correspondents, please consult\n            the \n             Baylor family sliplist.\n        The next series of papers contain the legal and\n            financial papers of the \n             Baylor family. These include: the\n            amnesty papers of Dr. \n             John Roy Baylor (1865); land plats and\n            surveys (1701-1841) of \n             Virginia lands in \n             King William County, \n             King and Queen County, \n             Spotsylvania County, \n             Caroline County, \n             Pocahontas County, and \n             Orange County, many of which were done\n            by surveyor, \n             James Taylor; and other legal\n            documents such as indentures, bonds, deeds, land grants,\n            and bills of complaint. Items of special note are: copies\n            of land grants signed by \n             Alexander Spotswood (July 20, 1722) and\n             Hugh Drysdale (July 16, 1726); a list\n            of named slaves sold to \n             John Baylor (December 12, 1751);\n            charges against \n             Philip Easter, overseer for \n             John Baylor, particularly for\n            \"constantly driving of the Negroes for which I paid a great\n            deal of tobacco,\" especially old \n             Sarah, a midwife (ca. 1757); agreement\n            of \n             John Hatley Norton to buy \n             John Baylor's tobacco (December 12,\n            1776); a water lot rental (June 12, 1794); articles of\n            agreement concerning a grist mill in \n             Caroline County (June 18, 1813); the\n            pardon of \n             John Crowley signed by \n             James Madison and \n             James Monroe (September 11, 1815); an\n            indenture of 1820 with named slaves; a schedule of property\n            with a named slave (December 17, 1822); an agreement\n            concerning a mill with \n             P. Harrison as the miller (1831); a\n            certificate of exemption from active service in the \n             Confederate Army as an agriculturalist\n            (November 10, 1864); and a copy of a receipt concerning\n            work done on a gravel pit for the \n             Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026 Potomac\n            Railroad (June 2, 1870).\n        This series also contains copies of the wills of \n             John Baylor (1705-1772), dated February\n            19, 1770, and \n             Frances Baylor (1760-1815), dated June\n            12, 1815, both mentioning family slaves by name.\n        The financial papers of the \n             Baylor family contain six small account\n            books, 1859-1870, listing payment to hired hands, one of\n            which contains the \n             Tiverton Farm Stockbook (1866); bank\n            statements; a farm book for the \n             Greenwood Farm; \n             John Baylor's receipt book, 1792-1795,\n            which mentions Negroes purchased (December 5, 1790), \n             George Baylor's estate (February 17,\n            1792), and Negroes sold (February 23, 1795); and other\n            miscellaneous financial papers.\n        Topics in the financial papers include the following: an\n            account with \n             Donald Robertson for \n             Robert Baylor and \n             Walker Baylor's schooling (April 1,\n            1772); Colonel Braxton's smith works (April 1736); the \n             Rappahannock River Forge belonging to \n             James Hunter (March 31, 1784); tobacco\n            accounts (1775-1776; 1782; June \u0026 August 1782, October\n            2, 1789; February 24, 1784; March 19 \u0026 December 11,\n            1875; and n.d.); horses and racing (January 16, 1741; July\n            11, 1777, May 29, 1767; November 15, 1774; April 1, 1756;\n            and list of horses, n.d.); an account for carpenter and\n            house work [1726]; an account with the \n             Swan Tavern (September 23, 1815); the\n            settling of \n             John Baylor's estate (1750-1808)\n            (January 5, 1812; May 29, 1811; October 27, 1812; September\n            10, 1815; October 2, 1819; June 1, 1821; August 3, 1821;\n            and n.d.); medical accounts (April 12, 1830); corn and meal\n            from \n             John Baylor's mill (January 1, 1830);\n            and a blacksmith account (January 1, 1875).\n        There are also accounts with the \n             Confederate government (November 14\n            \u0026 24, \u0026 December 12, 1863; March 24 \u0026 May 3,\n            1864; and February 4, 1865) and many concerning slaves and\n            slavery.\n        These include: duty paid on Negroes (1742-1744); claim\n            for payment for capturing and placing \n             John Baylor's runaway slave in the \n             Spotsylvania goal (April 16, 1744); the\n            sale of \n             George Baylor's slaves (November 28,\n            1786); slaves for hire (December 26, 1805; June 15, 1814);\n            hire of \" \n             Ned \" as a mason (October 2, 1814);\n            clothing for Negroes (1814); grog for servants (September\n            23, 1815); bills of sale for unnamed slaves (June 11,\n            1847); \n             Mary and daughter \n             Elizabeth (September 4, 1848); \n             Miles (February 20, 1849); \n             Pompey (June 11, 1847); slave boy, \n             Frank (January 15, 1851); \n             Kitty Brook and \n             Fanny (December 28, 1853); \n             George Cooper (June 18, 1857); and\n            slave hire (April 30, 1859 \u0026 ca. 1854).\n        The miscellaneous series contains a diary (1780) of \n             John Baylor 1750-1808) describing a\n            journey from \" \n             Newmarket \" to \n             Warm Springs, \n             Augusta County, Virginia, and\n            mentioning Dr. \n             [Thomas ?] Walker and his son, \n             Thomas Walker, of \n             Albemarle County, Virginia, and \n             John Baylor's \n             Orange plantations; genealogical\n            material pertaining to the \n             Roy family, \n             Baylor family, and \n             Norton family, and including\n            biographical sketches of \n             Mungo Roy and \n             John Baylor (1750-1808); a \"History of\n            the Early Church in Virginia\"; several literary\n            compositions by \n             Maria Roy Baylor; and a memorandum\n            book of \n             John Baylor (1750-1808) which describes\n            the beginning of his voyage on the Potomack (October 1775)\n            and furnishes a description of saltworks at \n             Portsmouth, [England] (1778).\n        Other material in this series includes military papers,\n            miscellaneous papers, newsclippings, and loose photographs.\n            Thirteen of the items in the military papers pertain to\n            Colonel \n             John Baylor (1705-1772) and the \n             Caroline militia, who served under\n            Colonel \n             George Washington in the construction\n            of a fort at \n             Winchester, Virginia, during the\n            French and Indian War, 1756-1757, and consist of company\n            returns, orders for payment, and receipts for payment.\n        The rest of the military papers consist of Revolutionary\n            War material, relating to \n             George Baylor, aide-de-camp to General\n             George Washington, 1775-1777, and\n            Commander of the \n             Third Regiment of Light Dragoons, and\n            the papers about clothing, arms, and other supplies,\n            regimental finances, roster of officers, and weekly returns\n            of the regiment. Among these papers are: a copy of a letter\n            from General Burgoyne to Colonel Phillipson concerning\n            military conditions and discussing his ill-fated \n             Saratoga campaign (October 20, 1777); a\n            mention of \n             George Baylor's upcoming marriage\n            (February 4, 1778); \n             B. Dade's request to be exchanged as a\n            prisoner of war (February 1779); monies owed for supplies\n            to \n             James Hunter with an itemized account\n            (October 12 \u0026 November 1, 1779); the problems and\n            arrangements involved in outfitting the regiment (February\n            4, June 6 \u0026 12, 1778; October 13, 1780; October 26,\n            1781 [2 letters]; November 2, 1781; April 3 \u0026 August\n            14, 1782); the difficulty of working with the \"financier \n             Robert Morris \" (October 13, 1780); an\n            outbreak of smallpox in the \n             Third Regiment at \n             Petersburg, Virginia (November 25,\n            1781); and an order for a review of the \n             Continental army for July 4, 1782. A\n            final item is a general order for a discharge from the \n             4th Regiment of \n             Virginia militia during the War of 1812\n            (April 10, 1814). For a list of individual correspondents,\n            please consult the original list in the control folder.\n        The miscellaneous folder contains the following: a\n            printed score sheet for archery (July 4, 1771); a list of\n            books, probably from the library of \n             John Baylor [ca. 1800 ?]; notes\n            concerning Blackstone's law; a pamphlet, \"The Lewis and\n            Clark Expedition,\" by \n             Grace Flandrau (n.d.); an oath to \"our\n            Sovereign Lord King George\" (n.d.); and a parochial report,\n             Emmanuel Church, \n             Greenwood Parish, Reverend \n             W.M. Nelson, Rector (n.d.).\n        The newsclippings, 1921-1933, concern \n             University of Virginia events, news of\n            the \n             Ivy area, the \n             Lewis Association of America, the \n             Lewis family, and historical\n            articles.\n        The loose photographs, mostly unidentified, include:\n            Mrs. Rutherford's children, \n             Rosa Rutherford, \n             Charles Frere and \n             Douglas Frere, possible photographs of\n            \" \n             Newmarket, \" and \n             University of Virginia professors.\n        The notebooks and bound volumes series contains the\n            following: a photograph album; school notebooks of \n             Maria Roy Baylor, \n             Frank Blackford, and \n             James B. Baylor; an expense book; two\n            scrapbooks of newsclippings; and the \n            Letters of Junius,hand\n            copied by \n             John Baylor (1769-1771).\n        Those volumes belonging to Dr. \n             John Roy Baylor include: a genealogical\n            and historical notebook (1872); a medical notebook and farm\n            expense book which records a controversy with the \n             Clayton family over slaves (1847-1851); a\n            farm account book, 1856-1892, with accounts with the \n             Fredericksburg Water Power Company, a\n            servant's account (June-August, 1865), and reports of wheat\n            crops; an account book with grape expenses, sheep\n            memorandum, apple accounts, and a mill account (1868-1874);\n            and another farm book with an account with the \n             Bowling Green Tanning Yard, and slave\n            hire records with named slaves (1847-1868).\n        The photograph album, apparently given to \n             John Roy Baylor by his granddaughter on\n            Christmas of 1887, contains photographs of the following: \n             Rosa Seddon Rutherford (1891 \u0026\n            n.d.); \n             Helen Rutherford Johnson; \n             James B. Baylor; \n             Frances Starke Bowen, of \" \n             Mirador, \" \n             Albemarle County (1886); \n             Fanny Courtenay Baylor (1886); the\n            mother of \n             Fanny Courtenay Baylor; a portrait of\n            Colonel \n             George Armistead; \n             Roy Ellerson Massie; General \n             Lewis Armistead (killed at \n             Gettysburg ); \n             Maria Roy Baylor; \n             Eloise Baylor (1885); \n             Julia Howard Baylor; and \n             John Roy Baylor.\n        The series containing the papers of \n             James B. Baylor and the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic\n            Survey consists of the financial records of the\n            survey teams led by \n             John Baylor, circular letters from the\n            home office in \n             Washington, D.C., the official\n            correspondence and reports of \n             John Baylor, photographs, printed\n            material, \n             United States government property\n            inventories, and bound volumes.\n        \n                James Bowen Baylor (1849-1924)\n            graduated with an engineering degree from the \n             University of Virginia in 1872 and was\n            appointed an aid in the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic Survey\n            Department in 1874, continuing to work as a field\n            agent throughout his career. His many assignments included:\n            the determination of the elements of earth's magnetism from\n             Canada to \n             Mexico; the survey of oyster grounds\n            in \n             Louisiana and \n             Virginia, 1889-1894; his appointment\n            as a Commissioner of the \n             United States Supreme Court to settle\n            the \n             Virginia - \n             Tennessee boundary line dispute,\n            establishing it in the middle of Main Street, \n             Bristol, 1900-1902; and also the\n            establishment of boundaries between \n             Virginia and \n             Maryland, \n             New York and \n             Pennsylvania, and the \n             United States and \n             Canada.\n        The Oyster Industry Protection Correspondence contains\n            much correspondence from \n             William Ellinger of \n             Fox Island, Virginia, who describes\n            himself as an oyster planter. Printed material consists of\n            death notices for \n             United States Coast and Geodetic\n            Survey men, \n             Richard D. Cutts and \n             Benjamin Peirce (1880\u0026 1883), and\n            three pamphlets concerning the \n             United States and Canadian boundary,\n            the oyster laws of \n             Virginia, and a \n             Virginia Military Institute valedictory\n            address by \n             Edward Hutson Russell.\n        Oversize items include a survey of the lands of \n             John Roy Baylor (June 1847),\n            photographs of the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic\n            Survey, and a printed plan of the fairgrounds of\n            the \n             Virginia State Agricultural Society, \n             Richmond, 1854.\n        The three \n             Baylor family ledgers, 1719-1755, contain\n            many references to the purchase of slaves (see\n            addendum).","ADDENDUM RE THE BAYLOR LEDGERS\n        The three \n             Baylor family ledgers contain many\n            references concerning tobacco exports, the purchase of\n            merchandise, work done on various ships, and slaves, which\n            at times had their place of origin noted, as in \" \n             Madigaschar woman,\" \"man of \n             Callabar, \" and \" \n             Barbadoes negro.\" The accounts of the\n            first two ledgers are indexed in the front of the\n            volumes.\n        References to slavery occurring in volume one include\n            the following pages: 12, 13, 15, 17, 22-24, 26, 28, 35, 37,\n            39, 47, 49, 64-66, 68, 70-71, 77, 80-81, 83, 92-93,\n            101-102, 113-114, 127, 130, 134, 166, \u0026 175. References\n            to slavery in volume two include: 10, 16, 30, 34, 56,\n            63-64, 74, 86, 88, 102, 115, 123, 134, 183, \u0026 207.\n            Volume three pages include: 40, 71, 124, 130, 132, 135,\n            146, 148, 152-153, \u0026 155.\n        Occasionally the names of the slave ships and other\n            vessels are recorded in the ledgers with notes on the\n            contents purchased from them. These, along with their\n            volume and page number, are listed below.\n        \n                Ann \u0026 Sarah 1.96, 139, 150, \u0026\n            155\n        \n                Berkeley 1.38, 64, 71, 98, 121, 149,\n            \u0026 167; \u0026 2.50\n        \n                Betty 1.94\n        \n                Callabar 1.39, 68, \u0026 98; \u0026\n            2.96, 111, 136\n        \n                Greyhound 1.23, 37, 38, 65, 92, \u0026\n            96; \u0026 2.4, 54, \u0026 97\n        \n                Hunter 1.68\n        \n                Little John 1.9, 10, 12, 25, \u0026 75;\n            \u0026 2.116 \u0026 136\n        \n                Little York 2.124\n        \n                Lucy 1.94 \u0026 149\n        \n                Mattapony Pink 1.9, 33, 94, 99, 135,\n            145, 158, 180, \u0026 185\n        \n                Nassopenex Sloop 1.2, 5, 38, \u0026\n            75\n        \n                Parnel Galley 2.22\n        \n                Prince Eugene 1.139, 150, \u0026\n            162-164\n        \n                Twerton 1.15, 39, 103, \u0026 2.90\n        Other entries include: the Iron Mine Adventurers 1.1\n            \u0026 1.11; horses 1.28; the \n             Germana mines 2.188; \n             John Baylor's estate 2.73 \u0026 131;\n            quitrents for land in \n             Caroline County, \n             Spotsylvania County, \n             Orange County, and \n             King and Queen County 2.34 \u0026 79;\n            and doctor and midwife accounts 3.120-121, 142, \u0026 149.\n            Volume three also has many references to the manufacture\n            and repair of hardware, utensils, and agricultural\n            equipment. In addition, at the end of the last volume,\n            there is a list of memoranda concerning agreements and\n            contracts of \n             John Baylor, a memorandum of slaves\n            sold off \n             W. Lyde's plantation (November 30,\n            1742) and a list of all the Negroes belonging to Baylor in\n            1744.","See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915"],"collection_ssim":["Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["2257"],"unitid_tesim":["2257"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["John Baylor and \n          James Baylor Blackford"],"creator_ssim":["John Baylor and \n          James Baylor Blackford"],"access_terms_ssm":["See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was loaned to the Library by \n             John Baylor of Baltimore, Maryland, and \n             James Baylor Blackford of Richmond, Virginia, on \n            April 12, 1946, and was made a gift on \n            August 31, 1954."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["2000 items"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe \n          Baylor Family Papers have been arranged in\n         the following six series:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eI. Correspondence (Box 1)\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eII. Legal and Financial Papers (Boxes 2-3)\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIII. Miscellaneous Papers (Box 4)\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIV. Notebooks and Bound Volumes (Boxes 5-7)\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eV. Papers of \n          James B. Baylor and the \n          United States Coast \u0026amp; Geodetic\n         Survey (Boxes 8-11)\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eVI. Oversize Items \u0026amp; 2M Volumes\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["The \n          Baylor Family Papers have been arranged in\n         the following six series:","I. Correspondence (Box 1)","II. Legal and Financial Papers (Boxes 2-3)","III. Miscellaneous Papers (Box 4)","IV. Notebooks and Bound Volumes (Boxes 5-7)","V. Papers of \n          James B. Baylor and the \n          United States Coast \u0026 Geodetic\n         Survey (Boxes 8-11)","VI. Oversize Items \u0026 2M Volumes"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\n             John Baylor 1 ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1650\u003c/date\u003e- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1720\u003c/date\u003e) resident of \n          Gloucester County, Virginia, and later \n          King and Queen County, Virginia, married \n          Lucy Todd O'Brien (ca.1681-?) of \n          New Kent County, Virginia, in \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1698\u003c/date\u003e. They were believed to have had three\n         offspring, \n          Frances Baylor, \n          Robert Baylor, and \n          John Baylor 2. The children of their son,\n         Colonel \n          John2 Baylor ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1705\u003c/date\u003e- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1772\u003c/date\u003e), and \n          Frances Walker (?- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1783\u003c/date\u003e) were as follows:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e1) \n          Courtney Baylor m. Jasper Clayton of \n          Gloucester County \n         \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e2) \n          Lucy Baylor m. \n          John Armistead \n         \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e3) \n          Frances Baylor m. \n          John Nicholson \n         \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e4) \n          Elizabeth Baylor unmarried\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e5) \n          John Baylor 3 ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1750\u003c/date\u003e- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1808\u003c/date\u003e) m. \n          Frances Norton ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1760\u003c/date\u003e- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1815\u003c/date\u003e) in \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1778\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e6) \n          George Baylor ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1752\u003c/date\u003e- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1784\u003c/date\u003e) m. \n          Lucy Page in \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1778\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e7) \n          Walker Baylor ( ? - \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1823\u003c/date\u003e) m. \n          Jane Bledsoe \n         \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e8) \n          Robert Baylor m. Miss Gwynne\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe children of \n          John Baylor 3 and \n          Frances Norton were:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e1) \n          Frances Courtney Baylor ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1779\u003c/date\u003e- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1780\u003c/date\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e2) \n          Courtney Orange Baylor ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1781\u003c/date\u003e-? ) m. _____ Fox\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e3) \n          Lucy Elizabeth Todd Baylor ( ? - \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1823\u003c/date\u003e) m. [Sen. \n          John H. Upshaw ] in \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1809\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e4) \n          Louisa Henrietta Baylor m. [ \n          William T. Upshaw ]\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e5) \n          Susanna Frances Baylor ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1783\u003c/date\u003e- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1837\u003c/date\u003e) m. \n          John Sutton \n         \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e6) \n          John Baylor 4 m. \n          Maria Ann Roy ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1790\u003c/date\u003e- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1850\u003c/date\u003e) in \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1819\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e7) Dr. \n          George Daniel Baylor m. Miss Lewis\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe issue of \n          John Baylor 4 and \n          Maria Ann Roy was Dr. \n          John Roy Baylor \n         \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n             John Baylor ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1821\u003c/date\u003e- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1897\u003c/date\u003e) who married \n          Anne Bowen of \n          Albemarle County and produced the\n         following offspring:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e1) Captain \n          James Bowen Baylor ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1849\u003c/date\u003e- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1924\u003c/date\u003e) m. \n          Ellen Carter Bruce (died ca. \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1899\u003c/date\u003e) in ca. \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1881\u003c/date\u003e, producing three children: \n          Evelyn Courtney Blackford Baylor, \n          Anne Baylor, and \n          John Baylor ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1890\u003c/date\u003e- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1968\u003c/date\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e2) \n          Maria Roy Baylor \n         \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e3) \n          John Roy Baylor, Jr. ( \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1851\u003c/date\u003e- \n         \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1926\u003c/date\u003e) m. \n          Julia Howard \n         \u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Baylor 1 ( \n         1650- \n         1720) resident of \n          Gloucester County, Virginia, and later \n          King and Queen County, Virginia, married \n          Lucy Todd O'Brien (ca.1681-?) of \n          New Kent County, Virginia, in \n         1698. They were believed to have had three\n         offspring, \n          Frances Baylor, \n          Robert Baylor, and \n          John Baylor 2. The children of their son,\n         Colonel \n          John2 Baylor ( \n         1705- \n         1772), and \n          Frances Walker (?- \n         1783) were as follows:","1) \n          Courtney Baylor m. Jasper Clayton of \n          Gloucester County","2) \n          Lucy Baylor m. \n          John Armistead","3) \n          Frances Baylor m. \n          John Nicholson","4) \n          Elizabeth Baylor unmarried","5) \n          John Baylor 3 ( \n         1750- \n         1808) m. \n          Frances Norton ( \n         1760- \n         1815) in \n         1778","6) \n          George Baylor ( \n         1752- \n         1784) m. \n          Lucy Page in \n         1778","7) \n          Walker Baylor ( ? - \n         1823) m. \n          Jane Bledsoe","8) \n          Robert Baylor m. Miss Gwynne","The children of \n          John Baylor 3 and \n          Frances Norton were:","1) \n          Frances Courtney Baylor ( \n         1779- \n         1780)","2) \n          Courtney Orange Baylor ( \n         1781-? ) m. _____ Fox","3) \n          Lucy Elizabeth Todd Baylor ( ? - \n         1823) m. [Sen. \n          John H. Upshaw ] in \n         1809","4) \n          Louisa Henrietta Baylor m. [ \n          William T. Upshaw ]","5) \n          Susanna Frances Baylor ( \n         1783- \n         1837) m. \n          John Sutton","6) \n          John Baylor 4 m. \n          Maria Ann Roy ( \n         1790- \n         1850) in \n         1819","7) Dr. \n          George Daniel Baylor m. Miss Lewis","The issue of \n          John Baylor 4 and \n          Maria Ann Roy was Dr. \n          John Roy Baylor","John Baylor ( \n         1821- \n         1897) who married \n          Anne Bowen of \n          Albemarle County and produced the\n         following offspring:","1) Captain \n          James Bowen Baylor ( \n         1849- \n         1924) m. \n          Ellen Carter Bruce (died ca. \n         1899) in ca. \n         1881, producing three children: \n          Evelyn Courtney Blackford Baylor, \n          Anne Baylor, and \n          John Baylor ( \n         1890- \n         1968).","2) \n          Maria Roy Baylor","3) \n          John Roy Baylor, Jr. ( \n         1851- \n         1926) m. \n          Julia Howard"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of the Baylor Family, Accession #2257, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Papers of the Baylor Family, Accession #2257, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The papers of the \n             Baylor family of \"Newmarket,\" \n             Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, contain ca.\n            2000 items (11 Hollinger boxes, 4.5 linear feet),\n            1653-1915, and consist of correspondence, legal and\n            financial papers, ledgers, genealogical material, students\n            notebooks and bound volumes, scrapbooks, photographs, a\n            diary, literary compositions, military papers pertaining to\n            the Revolutionary War, newsclippings, the records of James Bowen Baylor and the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and miscellaneous papers.\n        These papers pertain to John Baylor (1650-1720) of \n             Gloucester County, and King and Queen County, Virginia, and his wife, \n             Lucy Todd O'Brien of New Kent County, Virginia, and four generations of their descendants. The \n             John Baylor ledgers, 1719-1755, reveal that John Baylor was a wealthy merchant,\n            planter, and shipowner. He also served as a burgess, representing Gloucester County in the 1693 General Assembly and King and Queen County in 1718.\n        John Baylor's son, John Baylor (1705-1772), greatly increased the family landholdings when he received a royal\n            land grant in 1726 in what was to become Caroline County, Virginia. John Baylor was educated in \n             England, at the \n             Putney Grammer School and \n             Caius College, \n             Cambridge. While in \n             England, he developed a keen interest\n            in thoroughbred horses and horse racing, going so far as to\n            name his new home, \" \n             Newmarket, \" for the famous English\n            racing center. He became an important colonial horse\n            importer and breeder whose stables greatly contributed to\n            the development of American thoroughbreds. \n             John Baylor also rendered public\n            service to the newly formed county of \n             Caroline, as a colonel in the county\n            militia and a burgess in 1742-1749, and 1756-1765.\n        All four of the sons of \n             John Baylor (1705-1772) contributed in\n            some way to the American effort during the Revolutionary\n            War. \n             John Baylor (1750-1808), the heir of \" \n             Newmarket, \" while unable to fight due\n            to a childhood injury, gave financial support to the war\n            effort. He later had difficulties in shedding his\n            reputation as a \"Tory\" because he had gone back to \n             England in 1778 to marry his cousin, \n             Frances Norton (1760-1815) and had to\n            live in \n             Europe until they could obtain a return\n            passage to \n             America.\n        \n                George Baylor (1752-1784) was a member\n            of the \n             Caroline County Committee of Safety,\n            1775-1776, and from 1775-1777, he was aide-de-camp of\n            General \n             George Washington. He was commanding\n            officer of the \n             3rd Regiment Light Dragoons when he was\n            wounded and captured on September 28, 1778. He was\n            eventually exchanged and his regiment was consolidated with\n            the \n             First Continental Dragoons on November\n            9, 1782, which he commanded until the end of the war. On\n            September 30, 1783, he received his commission as a Brevet\n            Brigadier General.\n        \n                Walker Baylor served as a lieutenant\n            and captain of the \n             3rd Regiment Light Dragoons during the\n            Revolution. He along with his other brother \n             Robert Baylor, who also served in the\n            Revolution, immigrated to \n             Kentucky. Later \n             Robert Baylor apparently settled in the\n             Pearl River area of the \n             Mississippi Territory.\n        The estate of \n             John Baylor (1750-1808) was hopelessly\n            entangled when he inherited it from his father in 1772 and\n            much of it was lost through his own ineptitude as a\n            businessman and the dishonesty of others. However, the\n            house and two thousand acres were entailed and could not be\n            alienated; these were passed on to his son, \n             John Baylor ( ? ), who married \n             Maria Ann Roy and produced Dr. \n             John Roy Baylor (1821-1897). It was Dr.\n             John Roy Baylor's son, Captain \n             James Bowen Baylor (1848-1924), who was\n            a member of the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic\n            Survey team.\n        The correspondence series contains the correspondence\n            from family members, friends, and business associates of\n            all the above generations of the \n             Baylor family, beginning with Colonel \n             John Baylor (1705-1772). Letters\n            pertaining to the sojourn of \n             John Baylor (1750-1808) in \n             England prior to and during the\n            Revolutionary War include the following: a reference to\n            Colonel \n             John Baylor's son at school in \n             Caius College, \n             Cambridge (August 12,1769); his\n            intentions of returning to the \n             United States (December 28, 1770); the\n            advice of \n             William Bond, a former teacher of \n             John Baylor, for him to seek further\n            educational opportunities upon the continent rather than to\n            return to college studies (July 15, 1773); \n             William Bond's request for \n             John Baylor to ignore \"national evils\"\n            and to visit \n             England (May 4, 1778); \n             John Baylor's trip to \n             England to wed his cousin, \n             Frances Norton (1778); a reference to\n            the Baylor's leaving \n             England, and comments concerning the\n            fashions and decadence of \n             England (May 4, 1779).\n        Correspondence concerning events leading up to and\n            including the Revolutionary War includes: \n             Sam Waterman's support of the Stamp\n            Act repeal and the danger of shipping livestock from \n             London to \n             John Baylor (March 6, 1766); a Mr.\n            Grand's letter refusing to advise \n             John Baylor due to threat of prison\n            (March 28, [1772]): copies of \n             Committee of Correspondence letters to \n             John Norton asking him to keep them\n            informed regarding events in \n             England and Acts of \n             Parliament and his reply (April 6,\n            \u0026 July 6, 1773); a recommendation for the Baron of\n            [Bonstetten] who served in the Danish and Prussian Wars\n            (September 27,1777); \n             John Baylor as a prisoner aboard a\n            British ship, Thomas [Thortican], possibly due to suspicion\n            that he was reportedly carrying a treaty between \n             France and the \n             United States (February 5, 1778); the\n            birth of Colonel \n             George Baylor's son (May 6, 1779); \n             Walker Baylor asking his brother to\n            send him some money to cover his expenses incurred in\n            fighting in the Revolution (August 13, 1779); a statement\n            of \n             Edmund Pendleton, the Chairman of the \n             Caroline Committee of Correspondence,\n            regarding the loyalty of \n             John Baylor to the colonial cause,\n            relating that \n             John Baylor supported the actions of\n            the Americans at \n             Lexington, and returned to \n             England only to marry (October 13,\n            1779); the statement of \n             George Baylor regarding the loyalty of\n            his brother evidenced by his opinion of events at \n             Lexington, and his recommendation of\n            Baron de Wolfen in the service of the \n             American Army, and concluding with the\n            explanation that \n             John Baylor did not fight due to a\n            physical infirmity acquired in his youth (October 14,1779);\n             John Wormeley requests \n             John Baylor to use his influence to\n            give him an escort to visit his father in \n             Virginia (August 16, 1782); and a\n            request for \n             George Baylor to help recover money\n            form one of the officers of his regiment for Mr. Alexander\n            (September 3, 1783).\n        Other subjects of note include: the tobacco growing and\n            export business (May 8, 1741; March 6, 1766; August 12,\n            1769; February 5, 1778; June 29, 1788; March 10, 1789; June\n            6, 1789; March 15, 1793; \u0026 February 5, 1790); iron and\n            forge business (October 11, 1771; \u0026 April 13, 1774);\n            horses and horse breeding (\"Sober John\"-October25, 1754;\n            \"Fearnought\"-March 21, 1771; October 30, 1756; March 6,\n            1766; and July 17, 1800); and a discussion about whether\n            the Spanish will allow free trade up the \n             Mississippi River and \n             Ohio River ([December 4], 1783).\n        Several letters mention slaves and slavery. Among these\n            are: slaves for sale (April 14, 1770; March 21, 1771;\n            September 14, 1771; \u0026 June 19, 1811); mention of slave\n            passes, a slave detained on the road for lack of one, and a\n            visit of slaves with the family in \n             Gloucester County, Virginia (July 12,\n            1813); the prices of slaves in the \n             Pearl River area of the \n             Mississippi Territory and prices of\n            hire (November 28, 1816); and a letter from a Quaker, \n             George Boone, of \n             Berks County, Pennsylvania, attempting\n            to verify that \n             James Martin, a black man who claimed\n            to have been born to free parents and wrongly sold as part\n            of Colonel \n             John Baylor's estate, was indeed a\n            free black and not legally owned by \n             Thomas Adams of \n             Orange County, Virginia (August 12,\n            1818).\n        There is a group of letters between \n             John Baylor, \n             John Frere, and \n             John Baylor's former teacher in \n             England, \n             William Bond, concerning education for\n            his two sons, \n             John Baylor and \n             George Daniel Baylor. This\n            correspondence sheds some light on the attempts of\n            Americans to educate their sons following the Revolution\n            and includes: a discussion of \n             Eton and \n             Rugby and changes that have occurred at\n             Cambridge (August 17, 1793); a\n            suggestion to try \n             Glasgow in \n             Scotland (March 1, 1796); the\n            possibility of using a tutor (February 27, 1797); terms to\n            secure a tutor from \n             England and his opinion of \n             Eton (October 2, 1797); and a\n            suggestion to use an American clergyman for a tutor (June\n            22, 1799 \u0026 June 30, 1800).\n        Other subjects mentioned include: the French Revolution\n            (July 2, August 17, and [September 18], 1793); a\n            description of fashions ([September 18], 1793); a\n            description of \n             Warm Springs, \n             Bath County, Virginia (August 26,\n            1805); the career of \n             Napoleon Bonaparte (June 30 \u0026 July\n            17, 1800); the settlement of \n             John Baylor's estate (December 26,\n            1801; \u0026 January 3, 1804); the \n             Louisiana Purchase (September 17,\n            1803); a woman's viewpoint and thoughts (April 9, 1802);\n            the interdiction of His Majesty's ships from American ports\n            and the War of 1812 (August 29, 1808; March 25, 1812; and\n            July 18, 1813); an excellent discussion of social and\n            economic life in \n             Pearl River, \n             Mississippi Territory (November 28,\n            1816); the financial difficulties of the \n             Baylor family (September 1, 1819; \u0026\n            July 25, 1820); a meteorite falling in \n             Washington, D.C. (March 18, 1821); the\n            celebration in \n             Richmond of the French victory over the\n            Turkish Dey of \n             Algiers (September 13, 1830); the\n            medical studies of \n             John Roy Baylor (January 31, 1842);\n            discussion of \n             George Catlin's book about American\n            Indians and the explorations of \n             John C. Fremont and \n             Charles Wilkes (April 30, 1846); a\n            detailed description of \n             William P. Palmer's trip to \n             Europe (October 30, 1865); and the\n            voyage of Presbyterian missionary \n             E. Lanc[aster] to \n             Rio De Janeiro (August 26, 1869).\n        Events during the Civil War period are represented by\n            the following: \n             William P. Palmer's comments\n            concerning \n             John Brown's raid at \n             Harper's Ferry and the preparations for\n            his hanging (November 22 \u0026 December 1, 1859); the\n            struggle for possession of the \n             Fredericksburg Water Power\n            Company (March 17 \u0026 November 3, 1863; \u0026\n            September 5, 1865); the building of \n             Confederate stables and cabins for a\n            camp in \n             Louisa near the gold mines of \n             Louisa County's \n             Walnut Grove and \n             Slate Grove, formerly owned by Yankee\n            speculators (December 30, 1863); requests for donations of\n            flour and foodstuffs for soldiers (February 25, 1865); and\n            the assassination of \n             Abraham Lincoln deplored (April 25,\n            1865). Related topics include the mention of seeing \n             Robert E. Lee at \n             White Sulpher Springs, West\n            Virginia (August 17, 1867) and a letter from \n             Henry Stephens Randall declining to\n            visit the Old Dominion until the scars of the Civil War are\n            healed (n.d.).\n        Other post-Civil War subjects include: racial tensions\n            (August 11, 1878) and the \n             Richmond riots during which a white\n            policeman was killed in \n             Old Market Hall (March 20, 1870); \n             John Roy Baylor's assurances that his\n            black tenant farmers were not involved in the violence in \n             Caroline County (n.d.); life in \n             St. Louis, Missouri (September \u0026\n            July 3, 1873); a description of a shoot-out in \n             Uvalde County, Texas (May 10, 1881);\n            the black vote during Reconstruction in \n             Virginia (October 28, 1889); mention of\n             Micajah Woods, the \n             University of Virginia, and \n             Monticello (October 21, 1887); and the \n             Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n            Company (March 21, 1873; \u0026 May 20, 1881).\n        Letters containing genealogical information include the\n            following families: the \n             Norton family (June 22, 1828); \n             Robert Baylor's (August 14, 1828); the\n             Frere family (June 28, 1872 \u0026 n.d.);\n            the \n             Roy family (March 21, 1887 \u0026 January\n            8, 1885); the \n             Braxton family (April 20, 1810); the \n             Baylor family (February 20, 1895); and\n            the \n             Texas \n                Baylor family (April 28 \u0026 May 2,\n            1894).\n        For a list of individual correspondents, please consult\n            the \n             Baylor family sliplist.\n        The next series of papers contain the legal and\n            financial papers of the \n             Baylor family. These include: the\n            amnesty papers of Dr. \n             John Roy Baylor (1865); land plats and\n            surveys (1701-1841) of \n             Virginia lands in \n             King William County, \n             King and Queen County, \n             Spotsylvania County, \n             Caroline County, \n             Pocahontas County, and \n             Orange County, many of which were done\n            by surveyor, \n             James Taylor; and other legal\n            documents such as indentures, bonds, deeds, land grants,\n            and bills of complaint. Items of special note are: copies\n            of land grants signed by \n             Alexander Spotswood (July 20, 1722) and\n             Hugh Drysdale (July 16, 1726); a list\n            of named slaves sold to \n             John Baylor (December 12, 1751);\n            charges against \n             Philip Easter, overseer for \n             John Baylor, particularly for\n            \"constantly driving of the Negroes for which I paid a great\n            deal of tobacco,\" especially old \n             Sarah, a midwife (ca. 1757); agreement\n            of \n             John Hatley Norton to buy \n             John Baylor's tobacco (December 12,\n            1776); a water lot rental (June 12, 1794); articles of\n            agreement concerning a grist mill in \n             Caroline County (June 18, 1813); the\n            pardon of \n             John Crowley signed by \n             James Madison and \n             James Monroe (September 11, 1815); an\n            indenture of 1820 with named slaves; a schedule of property\n            with a named slave (December 17, 1822); an agreement\n            concerning a mill with \n             P. Harrison as the miller (1831); a\n            certificate of exemption from active service in the \n             Confederate Army as an agriculturalist\n            (November 10, 1864); and a copy of a receipt concerning\n            work done on a gravel pit for the \n             Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026 Potomac\n            Railroad (June 2, 1870).\n        This series also contains copies of the wills of \n             John Baylor (1705-1772), dated February\n            19, 1770, and \n             Frances Baylor (1760-1815), dated June\n            12, 1815, both mentioning family slaves by name.\n        The financial papers of the \n             Baylor family contain six small account\n            books, 1859-1870, listing payment to hired hands, one of\n            which contains the \n             Tiverton Farm Stockbook (1866); bank\n            statements; a farm book for the \n             Greenwood Farm; \n             John Baylor's receipt book, 1792-1795,\n            which mentions Negroes purchased (December 5, 1790), \n             George Baylor's estate (February 17,\n            1792), and Negroes sold (February 23, 1795); and other\n            miscellaneous financial papers.\n        Topics in the financial papers include the following: an\n            account with \n             Donald Robertson for \n             Robert Baylor and \n             Walker Baylor's schooling (April 1,\n            1772); Colonel Braxton's smith works (April 1736); the \n             Rappahannock River Forge belonging to \n             James Hunter (March 31, 1784); tobacco\n            accounts (1775-1776; 1782; June \u0026 August 1782, October\n            2, 1789; February 24, 1784; March 19 \u0026 December 11,\n            1875; and n.d.); horses and racing (January 16, 1741; July\n            11, 1777, May 29, 1767; November 15, 1774; April 1, 1756;\n            and list of horses, n.d.); an account for carpenter and\n            house work [1726]; an account with the \n             Swan Tavern (September 23, 1815); the\n            settling of \n             John Baylor's estate (1750-1808)\n            (January 5, 1812; May 29, 1811; October 27, 1812; September\n            10, 1815; October 2, 1819; June 1, 1821; August 3, 1821;\n            and n.d.); medical accounts (April 12, 1830); corn and meal\n            from \n             John Baylor's mill (January 1, 1830);\n            and a blacksmith account (January 1, 1875).\n        There are also accounts with the \n             Confederate government (November 14\n            \u0026 24, \u0026 December 12, 1863; March 24 \u0026 May 3,\n            1864; and February 4, 1865) and many concerning slaves and\n            slavery.\n        These include: duty paid on Negroes (1742-1744); claim\n            for payment for capturing and placing \n             John Baylor's runaway slave in the \n             Spotsylvania goal (April 16, 1744); the\n            sale of \n             George Baylor's slaves (November 28,\n            1786); slaves for hire (December 26, 1805; June 15, 1814);\n            hire of \" \n             Ned \" as a mason (October 2, 1814);\n            clothing for Negroes (1814); grog for servants (September\n            23, 1815); bills of sale for unnamed slaves (June 11,\n            1847); \n             Mary and daughter \n             Elizabeth (September 4, 1848); \n             Miles (February 20, 1849); \n             Pompey (June 11, 1847); slave boy, \n             Frank (January 15, 1851); \n             Kitty Brook and \n             Fanny (December 28, 1853); \n             George Cooper (June 18, 1857); and\n            slave hire (April 30, 1859 \u0026 ca. 1854).\n        The miscellaneous series contains a diary (1780) of \n             John Baylor 1750-1808) describing a\n            journey from \" \n             Newmarket \" to \n             Warm Springs, \n             Augusta County, Virginia, and\n            mentioning Dr. \n             [Thomas ?] Walker and his son, \n             Thomas Walker, of \n             Albemarle County, Virginia, and \n             John Baylor's \n             Orange plantations; genealogical\n            material pertaining to the \n             Roy family, \n             Baylor family, and \n             Norton family, and including\n            biographical sketches of \n             Mungo Roy and \n             John Baylor (1750-1808); a \"History of\n            the Early Church in Virginia\"; several literary\n            compositions by \n             Maria Roy Baylor; and a memorandum\n            book of \n             John Baylor (1750-1808) which describes\n            the beginning of his voyage on the Potomack (October 1775)\n            and furnishes a description of saltworks at \n             Portsmouth, [England] (1778).\n        Other material in this series includes military papers,\n            miscellaneous papers, newsclippings, and loose photographs.\n            Thirteen of the items in the military papers pertain to\n            Colonel \n             John Baylor (1705-1772) and the \n             Caroline militia, who served under\n            Colonel \n             George Washington in the construction\n            of a fort at \n             Winchester, Virginia, during the\n            French and Indian War, 1756-1757, and consist of company\n            returns, orders for payment, and receipts for payment.\n        The rest of the military papers consist of Revolutionary\n            War material, relating to \n             George Baylor, aide-de-camp to General\n             George Washington, 1775-1777, and\n            Commander of the \n             Third Regiment of Light Dragoons, and\n            the papers about clothing, arms, and other supplies,\n            regimental finances, roster of officers, and weekly returns\n            of the regiment. Among these papers are: a copy of a letter\n            from General Burgoyne to Colonel Phillipson concerning\n            military conditions and discussing his ill-fated \n             Saratoga campaign (October 20, 1777); a\n            mention of \n             George Baylor's upcoming marriage\n            (February 4, 1778); \n             B. Dade's request to be exchanged as a\n            prisoner of war (February 1779); monies owed for supplies\n            to \n             James Hunter with an itemized account\n            (October 12 \u0026 November 1, 1779); the problems and\n            arrangements involved in outfitting the regiment (February\n            4, June 6 \u0026 12, 1778; October 13, 1780; October 26,\n            1781 [2 letters]; November 2, 1781; April 3 \u0026 August\n            14, 1782); the difficulty of working with the \"financier \n             Robert Morris \" (October 13, 1780); an\n            outbreak of smallpox in the \n             Third Regiment at \n             Petersburg, Virginia (November 25,\n            1781); and an order for a review of the \n             Continental army for July 4, 1782. A\n            final item is a general order for a discharge from the \n             4th Regiment of \n             Virginia militia during the War of 1812\n            (April 10, 1814). For a list of individual correspondents,\n            please consult the original list in the control folder.\n        The miscellaneous folder contains the following: a\n            printed score sheet for archery (July 4, 1771); a list of\n            books, probably from the library of \n             John Baylor [ca. 1800 ?]; notes\n            concerning Blackstone's law; a pamphlet, \"The Lewis and\n            Clark Expedition,\" by \n             Grace Flandrau (n.d.); an oath to \"our\n            Sovereign Lord King George\" (n.d.); and a parochial report,\n             Emmanuel Church, \n             Greenwood Parish, Reverend \n             W.M. Nelson, Rector (n.d.).\n        The newsclippings, 1921-1933, concern \n             University of Virginia events, news of\n            the \n             Ivy area, the \n             Lewis Association of America, the \n             Lewis family, and historical\n            articles.\n        The loose photographs, mostly unidentified, include:\n            Mrs. Rutherford's children, \n             Rosa Rutherford, \n             Charles Frere and \n             Douglas Frere, possible photographs of\n            \" \n             Newmarket, \" and \n             University of Virginia professors.\n        The notebooks and bound volumes series contains the\n            following: a photograph album; school notebooks of \n             Maria Roy Baylor, \n             Frank Blackford, and \n             James B. Baylor; an expense book; two\n            scrapbooks of newsclippings; and the \n            Letters of Junius,hand\n            copied by \n             John Baylor (1769-1771).\n        Those volumes belonging to Dr. \n             John Roy Baylor include: a genealogical\n            and historical notebook (1872); a medical notebook and farm\n            expense book which records a controversy with the \n             Clayton family over slaves (1847-1851); a\n            farm account book, 1856-1892, with accounts with the \n             Fredericksburg Water Power Company, a\n            servant's account (June-August, 1865), and reports of wheat\n            crops; an account book with grape expenses, sheep\n            memorandum, apple accounts, and a mill account (1868-1874);\n            and another farm book with an account with the \n             Bowling Green Tanning Yard, and slave\n            hire records with named slaves (1847-1868).\n        The photograph album, apparently given to \n             John Roy Baylor by his granddaughter on\n            Christmas of 1887, contains photographs of the following: \n             Rosa Seddon Rutherford (1891 \u0026\n            n.d.); \n             Helen Rutherford Johnson; \n             James B. Baylor; \n             Frances Starke Bowen, of \" \n             Mirador, \" \n             Albemarle County (1886); \n             Fanny Courtenay Baylor (1886); the\n            mother of \n             Fanny Courtenay Baylor; a portrait of\n            Colonel \n             George Armistead; \n             Roy Ellerson Massie; General \n             Lewis Armistead (killed at \n             Gettysburg ); \n             Maria Roy Baylor; \n             Eloise Baylor (1885); \n             Julia Howard Baylor; and \n             John Roy Baylor.\n        The series containing the papers of \n             James B. Baylor and the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic\n            Survey consists of the financial records of the\n            survey teams led by \n             John Baylor, circular letters from the\n            home office in \n             Washington, D.C., the official\n            correspondence and reports of \n             John Baylor, photographs, printed\n            material, \n             United States government property\n            inventories, and bound volumes.\n        \n                James Bowen Baylor (1849-1924)\n            graduated with an engineering degree from the \n             University of Virginia in 1872 and was\n            appointed an aid in the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic Survey\n            Department in 1874, continuing to work as a field\n            agent throughout his career. His many assignments included:\n            the determination of the elements of earth's magnetism from\n             Canada to \n             Mexico; the survey of oyster grounds\n            in \n             Louisiana and \n             Virginia, 1889-1894; his appointment\n            as a Commissioner of the \n             United States Supreme Court to settle\n            the \n             Virginia - \n             Tennessee boundary line dispute,\n            establishing it in the middle of Main Street, \n             Bristol, 1900-1902; and also the\n            establishment of boundaries between \n             Virginia and \n             Maryland, \n             New York and \n             Pennsylvania, and the \n             United States and \n             Canada.\n        The Oyster Industry Protection Correspondence contains\n            much correspondence from \n             William Ellinger of \n             Fox Island, Virginia, who describes\n            himself as an oyster planter. Printed material consists of\n            death notices for \n             United States Coast and Geodetic\n            Survey men, \n             Richard D. Cutts and \n             Benjamin Peirce (1880\u0026 1883), and\n            three pamphlets concerning the \n             United States and Canadian boundary,\n            the oyster laws of \n             Virginia, and a \n             Virginia Military Institute valedictory\n            address by \n             Edward Hutson Russell.\n        Oversize items include a survey of the lands of \n             John Roy Baylor (June 1847),\n            photographs of the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic\n            Survey, and a printed plan of the fairgrounds of\n            the \n             Virginia State Agricultural Society, \n             Richmond, 1854.\n        The three \n             Baylor family ledgers, 1719-1755, contain\n            many references to the purchase of slaves (see\n            addendum).","ADDENDUM RE THE BAYLOR LEDGERS\n        The three \n             Baylor family ledgers contain many\n            references concerning tobacco exports, the purchase of\n            merchandise, work done on various ships, and slaves, which\n            at times had their place of origin noted, as in \" \n             Madigaschar woman,\" \"man of \n             Callabar, \" and \" \n             Barbadoes negro.\" The accounts of the\n            first two ledgers are indexed in the front of the\n            volumes.\n        References to slavery occurring in volume one include\n            the following pages: 12, 13, 15, 17, 22-24, 26, 28, 35, 37,\n            39, 47, 49, 64-66, 68, 70-71, 77, 80-81, 83, 92-93,\n            101-102, 113-114, 127, 130, 134, 166, \u0026 175. References\n            to slavery in volume two include: 10, 16, 30, 34, 56,\n            63-64, 74, 86, 88, 102, 115, 123, 134, 183, \u0026 207.\n            Volume three pages include: 40, 71, 124, 130, 132, 135,\n            146, 148, 152-153, \u0026 155.\n        Occasionally the names of the slave ships and other\n            vessels are recorded in the ledgers with notes on the\n            contents purchased from them. These, along with their\n            volume and page number, are listed below.\n        \n                Ann \u0026 Sarah 1.96, 139, 150, \u0026\n            155\n        \n                Berkeley 1.38, 64, 71, 98, 121, 149,\n            \u0026 167; \u0026 2.50\n        \n                Betty 1.94\n        \n                Callabar 1.39, 68, \u0026 98; \u0026\n            2.96, 111, 136\n        \n                Greyhound 1.23, 37, 38, 65, 92, \u0026\n            96; \u0026 2.4, 54, \u0026 97\n        \n                Hunter 1.68\n        \n                Little John 1.9, 10, 12, 25, \u0026 75;\n            \u0026 2.116 \u0026 136\n        \n                Little York 2.124\n        \n                Lucy 1.94 \u0026 149\n        \n                Mattapony Pink 1.9, 33, 94, 99, 135,\n            145, 158, 180, \u0026 185\n        \n                Nassopenex Sloop 1.2, 5, 38, \u0026\n            75\n        \n                Parnel Galley 2.22\n        \n                Prince Eugene 1.139, 150, \u0026\n            162-164\n        \n                Twerton 1.15, 39, 103, \u0026 2.90\n        Other entries include: the Iron Mine Adventurers 1.1\n            \u0026 1.11; horses 1.28; the \n             Germana mines 2.188; \n             John Baylor's estate 2.73 \u0026 131;\n            quitrents for land in \n             Caroline County, \n             Spotsylvania County, \n             Orange County, and \n             King and Queen County 2.34 \u0026 79;\n            and doctor and midwife accounts 3.120-121, 142, \u0026 149.\n            Volume three also has many references to the manufacture\n            and repair of hardware, utensils, and agricultural\n            equipment. In addition, at the end of the last volume,\n            there is a list of memoranda concerning agreements and\n            contracts of \n             John Baylor, a memorandum of slaves\n            sold off \n             W. Lyde's plantation (November 30,\n            1742) and a list of all the Negroes belonging to Baylor in\n            1744."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":66,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:55:15.948Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eScope and Content\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe papers of the \n             Baylor family of \"Newmarket,\" \n             Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, contain ca.\n            2000 items (11 Hollinger boxes, 4.5 linear feet),\n            1653-1915, and consist of correspondence, legal and\n            financial papers, ledgers, genealogical material, students\n            notebooks and bound volumes, scrapbooks, photographs, a\n            diary, literary compositions, military papers pertaining to\n            the Revolutionary War, newsclippings, the records of James Bowen Baylor and the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and miscellaneous papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThese papers pertain to John Baylor (1650-1720) of \n             Gloucester County, and King and Queen County, Virginia, and his wife, \n             Lucy Todd O'Brien of New Kent County, Virginia, and four generations of their descendants. The \n             John Baylor ledgers, 1719-1755, reveal that John Baylor was a wealthy merchant,\n            planter, and shipowner. He also served as a burgess, representing Gloucester County in the 1693 General Assembly and King and Queen County in 1718.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eJohn Baylor's son, John Baylor (1705-1772), greatly increased the family landholdings when he received a royal\n            land grant in 1726 in what was to become Caroline County, Virginia. John Baylor was educated in \n             England, at the \n             Putney Grammer School and \n             Caius College, \n             Cambridge. While in \n             England, he developed a keen interest\n            in thoroughbred horses and horse racing, going so far as to\n            name his new home, \" \n             Newmarket, \" for the famous English\n            racing center. He became an important colonial horse\n            importer and breeder whose stables greatly contributed to\n            the development of American thoroughbreds. \n             John Baylor also rendered public\n            service to the newly formed county of \n             Caroline, as a colonel in the county\n            militia and a burgess in 1742-1749, and 1756-1765.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eAll four of the sons of \n             John Baylor (1705-1772) contributed in\n            some way to the American effort during the Revolutionary\n            War. \n             John Baylor (1750-1808), the heir of \" \n             Newmarket, \" while unable to fight due\n            to a childhood injury, gave financial support to the war\n            effort. He later had difficulties in shedding his\n            reputation as a \"Tory\" because he had gone back to \n             England in 1778 to marry his cousin, \n             Frances Norton (1760-1815) and had to\n            live in \n             Europe until they could obtain a return\n            passage to \n             America.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\n                George Baylor (1752-1784) was a member\n            of the \n             Caroline County Committee of Safety,\n            1775-1776, and from 1775-1777, he was aide-de-camp of\n            General \n             George Washington. He was commanding\n            officer of the \n             3rd Regiment Light Dragoons when he was\n            wounded and captured on September 28, 1778. He was\n            eventually exchanged and his regiment was consolidated with\n            the \n             First Continental Dragoons on November\n            9, 1782, which he commanded until the end of the war. On\n            September 30, 1783, he received his commission as a Brevet\n            Brigadier General.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\n                Walker Baylor served as a lieutenant\n            and captain of the \n             3rd Regiment Light Dragoons during the\n            Revolution. He along with his other brother \n             Robert Baylor, who also served in the\n            Revolution, immigrated to \n             Kentucky. Later \n             Robert Baylor apparently settled in the\n             Pearl River area of the \n             Mississippi Territory.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe estate of \n             John Baylor (1750-1808) was hopelessly\n            entangled when he inherited it from his father in 1772 and\n            much of it was lost through his own ineptitude as a\n            businessman and the dishonesty of others. However, the\n            house and two thousand acres were entailed and could not be\n            alienated; these were passed on to his son, \n             John Baylor ( ? ), who married \n             Maria Ann Roy and produced Dr. \n             John Roy Baylor (1821-1897). It was Dr.\n             John Roy Baylor's son, Captain \n             James Bowen Baylor (1848-1924), who was\n            a member of the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic\n            Survey team.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe correspondence series contains the correspondence\n            from family members, friends, and business associates of\n            all the above generations of the \n             Baylor family, beginning with Colonel \n             John Baylor (1705-1772). Letters\n            pertaining to the sojourn of \n             John Baylor (1750-1808) in \n             England prior to and during the\n            Revolutionary War include the following: a reference to\n            Colonel \n             John Baylor's son at school in \n             Caius College, \n             Cambridge (August 12,1769); his\n            intentions of returning to the \n             United States (December 28, 1770); the\n            advice of \n             William Bond, a former teacher of \n             John Baylor, for him to seek further\n            educational opportunities upon the continent rather than to\n            return to college studies (July 15, 1773); \n             William Bond's request for \n             John Baylor to ignore \"national evils\"\n            and to visit \n             England (May 4, 1778); \n             John Baylor's trip to \n             England to wed his cousin, \n             Frances Norton (1778); a reference to\n            the Baylor's leaving \n             England, and comments concerning the\n            fashions and decadence of \n             England (May 4, 1779).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eCorrespondence concerning events leading up to and\n            including the Revolutionary War includes: \n             Sam Waterman's support of the Stamp\n            Act repeal and the danger of shipping livestock from \n             London to \n             John Baylor (March 6, 1766); a Mr.\n            Grand's letter refusing to advise \n             John Baylor due to threat of prison\n            (March 28, [1772]): copies of \n             Committee of Correspondence letters to \n             John Norton asking him to keep them\n            informed regarding events in \n             England and Acts of \n             Parliament and his reply (April 6,\n            \u0026amp; July 6, 1773); a recommendation for the Baron of\n            [Bonstetten] who served in the Danish and Prussian Wars\n            (September 27,1777); \n             John Baylor as a prisoner aboard a\n            British ship, Thomas [Thortican], possibly due to suspicion\n            that he was reportedly carrying a treaty between \n             France and the \n             United States (February 5, 1778); the\n            birth of Colonel \n             George Baylor's son (May 6, 1779); \n             Walker Baylor asking his brother to\n            send him some money to cover his expenses incurred in\n            fighting in the Revolution (August 13, 1779); a statement\n            of \n             Edmund Pendleton, the Chairman of the \n             Caroline Committee of Correspondence,\n            regarding the loyalty of \n             John Baylor to the colonial cause,\n            relating that \n             John Baylor supported the actions of\n            the Americans at \n             Lexington, and returned to \n             England only to marry (October 13,\n            1779); the statement of \n             George Baylor regarding the loyalty of\n            his brother evidenced by his opinion of events at \n             Lexington, and his recommendation of\n            Baron de Wolfen in the service of the \n             American Army, and concluding with the\n            explanation that \n             John Baylor did not fight due to a\n            physical infirmity acquired in his youth (October 14,1779);\n             John Wormeley requests \n             John Baylor to use his influence to\n            give him an escort to visit his father in \n             Virginia (August 16, 1782); and a\n            request for \n             George Baylor to help recover money\n            form one of the officers of his regiment for Mr. Alexander\n            (September 3, 1783).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOther subjects of note include: the tobacco growing and\n            export business (May 8, 1741; March 6, 1766; August 12,\n            1769; February 5, 1778; June 29, 1788; March 10, 1789; June\n            6, 1789; March 15, 1793; \u0026amp; February 5, 1790); iron and\n            forge business (October 11, 1771; \u0026amp; April 13, 1774);\n            horses and horse breeding (\"Sober John\"-October25, 1754;\n            \"Fearnought\"-March 21, 1771; October 30, 1756; March 6,\n            1766; and July 17, 1800); and a discussion about whether\n            the Spanish will allow free trade up the \n             Mississippi River and \n             Ohio River ([December 4], 1783).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eSeveral letters mention slaves and slavery. Among these\n            are: slaves for sale (April 14, 1770; March 21, 1771;\n            September 14, 1771; \u0026amp; June 19, 1811); mention of slave\n            passes, a slave detained on the road for lack of one, and a\n            visit of slaves with the family in \n             Gloucester County, Virginia (July 12,\n            1813); the prices of slaves in the \n             Pearl River area of the \n             Mississippi Territory and prices of\n            hire (November 28, 1816); and a letter from a Quaker, \n             George Boone, of \n             Berks County, Pennsylvania, attempting\n            to verify that \n             James Martin, a black man who claimed\n            to have been born to free parents and wrongly sold as part\n            of Colonel \n             John Baylor's estate, was indeed a\n            free black and not legally owned by \n             Thomas Adams of \n             Orange County, Virginia (August 12,\n            1818).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThere is a group of letters between \n             John Baylor, \n             John Frere, and \n             John Baylor's former teacher in \n             England, \n             William Bond, concerning education for\n            his two sons, \n             John Baylor and \n             George Daniel Baylor. This\n            correspondence sheds some light on the attempts of\n            Americans to educate their sons following the Revolution\n            and includes: a discussion of \n             Eton and \n             Rugby and changes that have occurred at\n             Cambridge (August 17, 1793); a\n            suggestion to try \n             Glasgow in \n             Scotland (March 1, 1796); the\n            possibility of using a tutor (February 27, 1797); terms to\n            secure a tutor from \n             England and his opinion of \n             Eton (October 2, 1797); and a\n            suggestion to use an American clergyman for a tutor (June\n            22, 1799 \u0026amp; June 30, 1800).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOther subjects mentioned include: the French Revolution\n            (July 2, August 17, and [September 18], 1793); a\n            description of fashions ([September 18], 1793); a\n            description of \n             Warm Springs, \n             Bath County, Virginia (August 26,\n            1805); the career of \n             Napoleon Bonaparte (June 30 \u0026amp; July\n            17, 1800); the settlement of \n             John Baylor's estate (December 26,\n            1801; \u0026amp; January 3, 1804); the \n             Louisiana Purchase (September 17,\n            1803); a woman's viewpoint and thoughts (April 9, 1802);\n            the interdiction of His Majesty's ships from American ports\n            and the War of 1812 (August 29, 1808; March 25, 1812; and\n            July 18, 1813); an excellent discussion of social and\n            economic life in \n             Pearl River, \n             Mississippi Territory (November 28,\n            1816); the financial difficulties of the \n             Baylor family (September 1, 1819; \u0026amp;\n            July 25, 1820); a meteorite falling in \n             Washington, D.C. (March 18, 1821); the\n            celebration in \n             Richmond of the French victory over the\n            Turkish Dey of \n             Algiers (September 13, 1830); the\n            medical studies of \n             John Roy Baylor (January 31, 1842);\n            discussion of \n             George Catlin's book about American\n            Indians and the explorations of \n             John C. Fremont and \n             Charles Wilkes (April 30, 1846); a\n            detailed description of \n             William P. Palmer's trip to \n             Europe (October 30, 1865); and the\n            voyage of Presbyterian missionary \n             E. Lanc[aster] to \n             Rio De Janeiro (August 26, 1869).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eEvents during the Civil War period are represented by\n            the following: \n             William P. Palmer's comments\n            concerning \n             John Brown's raid at \n             Harper's Ferry and the preparations for\n            his hanging (November 22 \u0026amp; December 1, 1859); the\n            struggle for possession of the \n             Fredericksburg Water Power\n            Company (March 17 \u0026amp; November 3, 1863; \u0026amp;\n            September 5, 1865); the building of \n             Confederate stables and cabins for a\n            camp in \n             Louisa near the gold mines of \n             Louisa County's \n             Walnut Grove and \n             Slate Grove, formerly owned by Yankee\n            speculators (December 30, 1863); requests for donations of\n            flour and foodstuffs for soldiers (February 25, 1865); and\n            the assassination of \n             Abraham Lincoln deplored (April 25,\n            1865). Related topics include the mention of seeing \n             Robert E. Lee at \n             White Sulpher Springs, West\n            Virginia (August 17, 1867) and a letter from \n             Henry Stephens Randall declining to\n            visit the Old Dominion until the scars of the Civil War are\n            healed (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOther post-Civil War subjects include: racial tensions\n            (August 11, 1878) and the \n             Richmond riots during which a white\n            policeman was killed in \n             Old Market Hall (March 20, 1870); \n             John Roy Baylor's assurances that his\n            black tenant farmers were not involved in the violence in \n             Caroline County (n.d.); life in \n             St. Louis, Missouri (September \u0026amp;\n            July 3, 1873); a description of a shoot-out in \n             Uvalde County, Texas (May 10, 1881);\n            the black vote during Reconstruction in \n             Virginia (October 28, 1889); mention of\n             Micajah Woods, the \n             University of Virginia, and \n             Monticello (October 21, 1887); and the \n             Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026amp; Potomac Railroad\n            Company (March 21, 1873; \u0026amp; May 20, 1881).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eLetters containing genealogical information include the\n            following families: the \n             Norton family (June 22, 1828); \n             Robert Baylor's (August 14, 1828); the\n             Frere family (June 28, 1872 \u0026amp; n.d.);\n            the \n             Roy family (March 21, 1887 \u0026amp; January\n            8, 1885); the \n             Braxton family (April 20, 1810); the \n             Baylor family (February 20, 1895); and\n            the \n             Texas \n                Baylor family (April 28 \u0026amp; May 2,\n            1894).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eFor a list of individual correspondents, please consult\n            the \n             Baylor family sliplist.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe next series of papers contain the legal and\n            financial papers of the \n             Baylor family. These include: the\n            amnesty papers of Dr. \n             John Roy Baylor (1865); land plats and\n            surveys (1701-1841) of \n             Virginia lands in \n             King William County, \n             King and Queen County, \n             Spotsylvania County, \n             Caroline County, \n             Pocahontas County, and \n             Orange County, many of which were done\n            by surveyor, \n             James Taylor; and other legal\n            documents such as indentures, bonds, deeds, land grants,\n            and bills of complaint. Items of special note are: copies\n            of land grants signed by \n             Alexander Spotswood (July 20, 1722) and\n             Hugh Drysdale (July 16, 1726); a list\n            of named slaves sold to \n             John Baylor (December 12, 1751);\n            charges against \n             Philip Easter, overseer for \n             John Baylor, particularly for\n            \"constantly driving of the Negroes for which I paid a great\n            deal of tobacco,\" especially old \n             Sarah, a midwife (ca. 1757); agreement\n            of \n             John Hatley Norton to buy \n             John Baylor's tobacco (December 12,\n            1776); a water lot rental (June 12, 1794); articles of\n            agreement concerning a grist mill in \n             Caroline County (June 18, 1813); the\n            pardon of \n             John Crowley signed by \n             James Madison and \n             James Monroe (September 11, 1815); an\n            indenture of 1820 with named slaves; a schedule of property\n            with a named slave (December 17, 1822); an agreement\n            concerning a mill with \n             P. Harrison as the miller (1831); a\n            certificate of exemption from active service in the \n             Confederate Army as an agriculturalist\n            (November 10, 1864); and a copy of a receipt concerning\n            work done on a gravel pit for the \n             Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026amp; Potomac\n            Railroad (June 2, 1870).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThis series also contains copies of the wills of \n             John Baylor (1705-1772), dated February\n            19, 1770, and \n             Frances Baylor (1760-1815), dated June\n            12, 1815, both mentioning family slaves by name.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe financial papers of the \n             Baylor family contain six small account\n            books, 1859-1870, listing payment to hired hands, one of\n            which contains the \n             Tiverton Farm Stockbook (1866); bank\n            statements; a farm book for the \n             Greenwood Farm; \n             John Baylor's receipt book, 1792-1795,\n            which mentions Negroes purchased (December 5, 1790), \n             George Baylor's estate (February 17,\n            1792), and Negroes sold (February 23, 1795); and other\n            miscellaneous financial papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eTopics in the financial papers include the following: an\n            account with \n             Donald Robertson for \n             Robert Baylor and \n             Walker Baylor's schooling (April 1,\n            1772); Colonel Braxton's smith works (April 1736); the \n             Rappahannock River Forge belonging to \n             James Hunter (March 31, 1784); tobacco\n            accounts (1775-1776; 1782; June \u0026amp; August 1782, October\n            2, 1789; February 24, 1784; March 19 \u0026amp; December 11,\n            1875; and n.d.); horses and racing (January 16, 1741; July\n            11, 1777, May 29, 1767; November 15, 1774; April 1, 1756;\n            and list of horses, n.d.); an account for carpenter and\n            house work [1726]; an account with the \n             Swan Tavern (September 23, 1815); the\n            settling of \n             John Baylor's estate (1750-1808)\n            (January 5, 1812; May 29, 1811; October 27, 1812; September\n            10, 1815; October 2, 1819; June 1, 1821; August 3, 1821;\n            and n.d.); medical accounts (April 12, 1830); corn and meal\n            from \n             John Baylor's mill (January 1, 1830);\n            and a blacksmith account (January 1, 1875).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThere are also accounts with the \n             Confederate government (November 14\n            \u0026amp; 24, \u0026amp; December 12, 1863; March 24 \u0026amp; May 3,\n            1864; and February 4, 1865) and many concerning slaves and\n            slavery.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThese include: duty paid on Negroes (1742-1744); claim\n            for payment for capturing and placing \n             John Baylor's runaway slave in the \n             Spotsylvania goal (April 16, 1744); the\n            sale of \n             George Baylor's slaves (November 28,\n            1786); slaves for hire (December 26, 1805; June 15, 1814);\n            hire of \" \n             Ned \" as a mason (October 2, 1814);\n            clothing for Negroes (1814); grog for servants (September\n            23, 1815); bills of sale for unnamed slaves (June 11,\n            1847); \n             Mary and daughter \n             Elizabeth (September 4, 1848); \n             Miles (February 20, 1849); \n             Pompey (June 11, 1847); slave boy, \n             Frank (January 15, 1851); \n             Kitty Brook and \n             Fanny (December 28, 1853); \n             George Cooper (June 18, 1857); and\n            slave hire (April 30, 1859 \u0026amp; ca. 1854).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe miscellaneous series contains a diary (1780) of \n             John Baylor 1750-1808) describing a\n            journey from \" \n             Newmarket \" to \n             Warm Springs, \n             Augusta County, Virginia, and\n            mentioning Dr. \n             [Thomas ?] Walker and his son, \n             Thomas Walker, of \n             Albemarle County, Virginia, and \n             John Baylor's \n             Orange plantations; genealogical\n            material pertaining to the \n             Roy family, \n             Baylor family, and \n             Norton family, and including\n            biographical sketches of \n             Mungo Roy and \n             John Baylor (1750-1808); a \"History of\n            the Early Church in Virginia\"; several literary\n            compositions by \n             Maria Roy Baylor; and a memorandum\n            book of \n             John Baylor (1750-1808) which describes\n            the beginning of his voyage on the Potomack (October 1775)\n            and furnishes a description of saltworks at \n             Portsmouth, [England] (1778).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOther material in this series includes military papers,\n            miscellaneous papers, newsclippings, and loose photographs.\n            Thirteen of the items in the military papers pertain to\n            Colonel \n             John Baylor (1705-1772) and the \n             Caroline militia, who served under\n            Colonel \n             George Washington in the construction\n            of a fort at \n             Winchester, Virginia, during the\n            French and Indian War, 1756-1757, and consist of company\n            returns, orders for payment, and receipts for payment.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe rest of the military papers consist of Revolutionary\n            War material, relating to \n             George Baylor, aide-de-camp to General\n             George Washington, 1775-1777, and\n            Commander of the \n             Third Regiment of Light Dragoons, and\n            the papers about clothing, arms, and other supplies,\n            regimental finances, roster of officers, and weekly returns\n            of the regiment. Among these papers are: a copy of a letter\n            from General Burgoyne to Colonel Phillipson concerning\n            military conditions and discussing his ill-fated \n             Saratoga campaign (October 20, 1777); a\n            mention of \n             George Baylor's upcoming marriage\n            (February 4, 1778); \n             B. Dade's request to be exchanged as a\n            prisoner of war (February 1779); monies owed for supplies\n            to \n             James Hunter with an itemized account\n            (October 12 \u0026amp; November 1, 1779); the problems and\n            arrangements involved in outfitting the regiment (February\n            4, June 6 \u0026amp; 12, 1778; October 13, 1780; October 26,\n            1781 [2 letters]; November 2, 1781; April 3 \u0026amp; August\n            14, 1782); the difficulty of working with the \"financier \n             Robert Morris \" (October 13, 1780); an\n            outbreak of smallpox in the \n             Third Regiment at \n             Petersburg, Virginia (November 25,\n            1781); and an order for a review of the \n             Continental army for July 4, 1782. 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Nelson, Rector (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe newsclippings, 1921-1933, concern \n             University of Virginia events, news of\n            the \n             Ivy area, the \n             Lewis Association of America, the \n             Lewis family, and historical\n            articles.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe loose photographs, mostly unidentified, include:\n            Mrs. Rutherford's children, \n             Rosa Rutherford, \n             Charles Frere and \n             Douglas Frere, possible photographs of\n            \" \n             Newmarket, \" and \n             University of Virginia professors.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe notebooks and bound volumes series contains the\n            following: a photograph album; school notebooks of \n             Maria Roy Baylor, \n             Frank Blackford, and \n             James B. Baylor; an expense book; two\n            scrapbooks of newsclippings; and the \n            \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLetters of Junius,\u003c/title\u003ehand\n            copied by \n             John Baylor (1769-1771).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThose volumes belonging to Dr. \n             John Roy Baylor include: a genealogical\n            and historical notebook (1872); a medical notebook and farm\n            expense book which records a controversy with the \n             Clayton family over slaves (1847-1851); a\n            farm account book, 1856-1892, with accounts with the \n             Fredericksburg Water Power Company, a\n            servant's account (June-August, 1865), and reports of wheat\n            crops; an account book with grape expenses, sheep\n            memorandum, apple accounts, and a mill account (1868-1874);\n            and another farm book with an account with the \n             Bowling Green Tanning Yard, and slave\n            hire records with named slaves (1847-1868).\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe photograph album, apparently given to \n             John Roy Baylor by his granddaughter on\n            Christmas of 1887, contains photographs of the following: \n             Rosa Seddon Rutherford (1891 \u0026amp;\n            n.d.); \n             Helen Rutherford Johnson; \n             James B. Baylor; \n             Frances Starke Bowen, of \" \n             Mirador, \" \n             Albemarle County (1886); \n             Fanny Courtenay Baylor (1886); the\n            mother of \n             Fanny Courtenay Baylor; a portrait of\n            Colonel \n             George Armistead; \n             Roy Ellerson Massie; General \n             Lewis Armistead (killed at \n             Gettysburg ); \n             Maria Roy Baylor; \n             Eloise Baylor (1885); \n             Julia Howard Baylor; and \n             John Roy Baylor.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe series containing the papers of \n             James B. Baylor and the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic\n            Survey consists of the financial records of the\n            survey teams led by \n             John Baylor, circular letters from the\n            home office in \n             Washington, D.C., the official\n            correspondence and reports of \n             John Baylor, photographs, printed\n            material, \n             United States government property\n            inventories, and bound volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\n                James Bowen Baylor (1849-1924)\n            graduated with an engineering degree from the \n             University of Virginia in 1872 and was\n            appointed an aid in the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic Survey\n            Department in 1874, continuing to work as a field\n            agent throughout his career. His many assignments included:\n            the determination of the elements of earth's magnetism from\n             Canada to \n             Mexico; the survey of oyster grounds\n            in \n             Louisiana and \n             Virginia, 1889-1894; his appointment\n            as a Commissioner of the \n             United States Supreme Court to settle\n            the \n             Virginia - \n             Tennessee boundary line dispute,\n            establishing it in the middle of Main Street, \n             Bristol, 1900-1902; and also the\n            establishment of boundaries between \n             Virginia and \n             Maryland, \n             New York and \n             Pennsylvania, and the \n             United States and \n             Canada.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe Oyster Industry Protection Correspondence contains\n            much correspondence from \n             William Ellinger of \n             Fox Island, Virginia, who describes\n            himself as an oyster planter. Printed material consists of\n            death notices for \n             United States Coast and Geodetic\n            Survey men, \n             Richard D. Cutts and \n             Benjamin Peirce (1880\u0026amp; 1883), and\n            three pamphlets concerning the \n             United States and Canadian boundary,\n            the oyster laws of \n             Virginia, and a \n             Virginia Military Institute valedictory\n            address by \n             Edward Hutson Russell.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOversize items include a survey of the lands of \n             John Roy Baylor (June 1847),\n            photographs of the \n             United States Coast and Geodetic\n            Survey, and a printed plan of the fairgrounds of\n            the \n             Virginia State Agricultural Society, \n             Richmond, 1854.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe three \n             Baylor family ledgers, 1719-1755, contain\n            many references to the purchase of slaves (see\n            addendum).\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/scopecontent\u003e\n      ","\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eADDENDUM RE THE BAYLOR LEDGERS\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe three \n             Baylor family ledgers contain many\n            references concerning tobacco exports, the purchase of\n            merchandise, work done on various ships, and slaves, which\n            at times had their place of origin noted, as in \" \n             Madigaschar woman,\" \"man of \n             Callabar, \" and \" \n             Barbadoes negro.\" The accounts of the\n            first two ledgers are indexed in the front of the\n            volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eReferences to slavery occurring in volume one include\n            the following pages: 12, 13, 15, 17, 22-24, 26, 28, 35, 37,\n            39, 47, 49, 64-66, 68, 70-71, 77, 80-81, 83, 92-93,\n            101-102, 113-114, 127, 130, 134, 166, \u0026amp; 175. References\n            to slavery in volume two include: 10, 16, 30, 34, 56,\n            63-64, 74, 86, 88, 102, 115, 123, 134, 183, \u0026amp; 207.\n            Volume three pages include: 40, 71, 124, 130, 132, 135,\n            146, 148, 152-153, \u0026amp; 155.\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOccasionally the names of the slave ships and other\n            vessels are recorded in the ledgers with notes on the\n            contents purchased from them. 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