Borland Family Papers, 1771/1940

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
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Phone: (757) 221-3090
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Preferred citation:

Borland Family Papers, Robert Blackwell Papers

Summary

Extent:
1.50 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Borland Family Papers, Robert Blackwell Papers

Background

Scope and content:

The Borland, Green, and Godwin families are related in the following manner. George Godwin, son of Jeremiah Godwin, married Fanny Green (whose mother was Mary (Giles) Green) in 1805. Dr. Thomas Wood Borland (d. 1830 or 1831), father of Roscius Cicero Borland, married Harriott Godwin, daughter of Jeremiah Godwin and Sarah (Wilkinson) Godwin.

Family correspondence, chiefly 1830-1854, of Mary (Giles) Green and George Godwin of Nansemond County, Virginia; Roscius C. Borland of Murfreesboro, North Carolina; Thomas Roscius Borland of Norfolk, Virginia; and of other family members in Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. This collection includes business correspondence and receipts, 1788-1867; a manuscript by Armistead Borland about his father Thomas R. Borland (who was involved with William Mahone and the Readjuster Party) which contains a genealogy of the Borland and Godwin families; and family photographs. And it also contains a letter, 1828 April 18, from Euclid Borland to George Godwin giving impressions of life at College of William and Mary.

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Autograph document. Item no. 4 concerns the leaving of three slaves to Temperance Ramsay.

Euclid gives his first impressions of the college where he had just matriculated and mentions family members and refers to the Jeremiah Godwin plantation "Castle Hill" (later known as "Buntings").

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Autograph letter signed. Euclid gives a description of his trip to Holly Springs, Mississippi and the new country, and mentions Roscius and Solon Borland.

Autograph letter signed. Enclosed is an appointment for Mr. Winborn and comments on the Sub-Treasury bill before the U.S. House of Representatives.

Item concerns politics in Raleigh and mentions Cherry, McQueen, Iredell, Sheppard, and Clingman

Capehart announces that he is about to leave Murfreesboro for Suffolk with the remains of the family of R.C. Borland.

Item mentions Uncle Solon's escape from prison in MexiCounty

Item concerns family matters and mentions Uncle Solon's appointment to the U.S. Senate and some remarks on his personality.

Borland mentions his probable return to Virginia permanently and other family news.

Item mentions the hiring of slaves and Mr. Mahone.

Letter was written from the battlefield, Greeneville County, Virginia, advising his uncle to sell Tom, Negro, for $5,000.

Announces the death of his brother Phocian Borland of typhoid fever.

In German.

Receipts of George Godwin.

Receipts of George Godwin, guardian of Miss Catherine O. Green.

Receipts of George Godwin.

Business papers of George Godwin

Receipts of George Godwin.

Pages 157-182. Section 1 is entitled "Doctor Thomas Wood Borland" (d. 1830 or 1831). He married Harriott Godwin and their sons were Roscius Cicero, Euclid (d. 1881), and Solon. Included is a section, pages 168-176, on "Political Principles and Affiliations," including accounts of Thomas R. Borland's (1844-1900) political activities, 1865-1890, and his part in the William Mahone Readjuster Party.

304 pages with index. Original letters and receipts formerly part of this sketch have been re-filed with family correspondence and receipts.

Biographical / historical:

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Acquisition information:
Gift: 521 items, 1944.
Arrangement:

Organization: This collection is organized into 3 Series. Series 1 contains personal papers and correspondence, Series 2 contains tax statements and receipts, and Series 3 contains typed material. Arrangement: The collection is arranged chronologically by date with those items lacking dates found at the end of each series.

Physical description:
521 items
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard