Manuscripts - People and Family Names, 1621/1949, bulk 1800

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Manuscripts - Group 3 - People, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Summary

Extent:
6.00 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Manuscripts - Group 3 - People, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Background

Scope and content:

An artificial collection of papers created from material acquired during the 1930's and 1940's. Mostly letters, financial records, published material and official records of individuals in Virginia and elsewhere. Includes documents and signatures of well known people, such as Benjamin Harrison, John Randolph and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Acquisition information:
This collection is an artificial grouping of material given to Special Collections or purchased by Special Collections during the 1930's and 1940's.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by last name.

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Agriculture--History--19th century
Cotton trade--Southern States--History--19th century
Debt
Decedents' estates
Dyes and dyeing
Finances
Horses--Virginia
Insurance, Fire--Virginia--History
Jefferson County (W.Va.)--History--19th century
Legal documents
Logging--Virginia
Lumber trade--Virginia--History
Mecklenburg County (Va.)--History--19th century
Medical practice--Virginia--History
Merchants--Virginia--Richmond
Merchants--West Virginia--Jefferson County
Petersburg (Va.)--History--19th century
Richmond (Va.)--History--19th century
Slavery--Southern States--History
Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846
Tobacco industry--Virginia--Richmond
United States--Abolition--History
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Slavery
Wills
Women--Virginia--Social life and customs
Apprenticeship programs--Virginia
Merchants--Massachusetts
Physicians--Virginia--York County
Women physicians--Virginia--History--19th century.
Women--Physicians
Correspondence
Financial records
Lectures
Military records
Orders (military records)
Pamphlets
Printed ephemera
Names:
Allison White and Company
Centenary Church
Exchange Bank of Virginia
Titanic (Steamship)
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Forrest Family
Marshall, John, 1755-1835
Valentine, Edward Virginius, 1838-1930
West, Francis
West, John
Places:
Jefferson County (W.Va.)--History--18th century
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Mississippi--History--19th century
New York (State)--Social life and customs
Virginia--Genealogy
Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Virginia--Politics and Government--18th century
Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century
West Point (Va.)--History--19th century