Laine family papers, 1772/1961

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred citation:

MSS 16277, Laine family papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections, University of Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
0.8 Cubic Feet 1 document box, 1 half-width legal document box, 1 oversize folder.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

MSS 16277, Laine family papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections, University of Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

The Laine family papers (1772-1961; 0.8 cubic feet) contains letters and documents about hiring enslaved people, other family correspondence, and financial and legal papers related to the Laine (sometimes Lane) family in Sussex County, Virginia. There is also a letter and information about the War of 1812. Also of interest is the correspondence and church programs for Amos Lloyd Laine who was a minister in Wakefield, Virginia.

Biographical / historical:

Based on family names and relationships in the letters the Lane/Laine family of Sussex County, Virginia seems to date back to Thomas Lane of Jamestown, who came from England in 1634 and more recently pertaining to this collection, from his descendants Joseph Lane (1721-1775) and his wife Lucy Pride Lane (1720-1792?). They had nine children: Jesse Lane (1741-1803), Leticia Lane Hargrave (1748-1781),Drury Lane (1745-1816), Thomas Lane, Joseph Lane (1750-1810) and Selah Lane Phillips. Peter Lane and Jerry (Jeremiah?) Lane descended from Drury Lane in Sussex County, Virginia. Sources: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lane-8795 http://home.windstream.net/ehallman/lane0001.htm http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bowers/lane/thomasl.htm

Other papers in the collection relate to Mrs. Ella Jane Laine(1873-?) who was married to Christopher Columbus Laine and their children, Amos Lloyd Laine 1906-2004,Eugene Roy Laine, 1908-?), Elva Louise Laine Magee 1909-2012, Josie L. Wiedman, Alvin Woodrow Laine 1913-2007, and Milton Columbus Laine 1898-1944 who was married to Alma Lorraine Morris 1901-1987.

Acquisition information:
Accession 2017-0082, Purchased 19 December 2016.
Arrangement:

The collection has been arranged into four series: Series 1. Correspondence, Series 2.Financial and Legal papers, Series 3. Letters and documents about enslaved people, 4. Miscellaneous

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
letters (correspondence)
family papers