Upshur Family Papers, 1662/1936

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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:

Upshur Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
18.00 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Upshur Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers, 1622-1936, of the Upshur family of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Chiefly the genealogical correspondence and notes of Thomas Teackle Upshur (d. 1910) who was interested in the local history of Northampton and Accomack counties, Va. and in the genealogies of Eastern Shore families. Includes three manuscript volumes (indexed) called "Genealogies of the Kingdom of Accomack." The family papers of the Upshur family includes correspondence, 1786-1910, unpublished writings, accounts, and legal documents. The genealogical notes are arranged by family. The correspondence is arranged chronologically and the surnames of correspondents are given.

Oversize boxes contain a map of Belgium (9), a map of France (17), a 1900 address by T.T. Upshur at the dedication of the new Accomac, Virginia Courthouse, rolled family Upshur chart, and rolled family charts on "lines of Scarburgh, Winder and Riderick."

Genealogical correspondence and notes relating to various families.

(See also Stratton)

Also a related scroll.

See also Mifflin and Savage.

Medical information.

See also Kendall.

See also Girard.

Related scrolls in Box 7.

See also Warner.

See also Box 7.

See also Corbin and Box 7.

Also an ovesize chart.

See also Boxes 6 and 7.

Scroll also in box.

Listed in this box but filed in oversize.

Listed in this box but filed in oversize.

Listed in this box but filed in oversize.

Listed in this box but filed in oversize.

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Calvert, Winder and Gerrard Families.

Indexed handwritten volume of genealogical notes. Volume 1.

Indexed handwritten volume of genealogical notes. Volume 2.

Few entries. Parts of letters and more. Volume 3.

Includes other notes.

Typescript. 2 copies.

Two manuscript copies.

Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes.

Miscellaneous Genealogical Material, Patrick County Land, Poems and Stories

Correspondence, tax receipts and notes.

"Duke's Christmas" by Ruth McEnery Stuart, typescript and "A Woman's Hand" by Annie E. Upshur, typescript.

"Daddy Billy and the Witches" by Annie E. Updhur [?], typescript and manuscript.

"Annie's Shark" by Annie E. Upshur, manuscript; "Her Grandmother's Ghost" by T. T. Upshur, typescript; Diary and poems by [?], manuscript and "NO. 17" by Thomas T. Upshur, manuscript.

"The Spectre at Arle" by [?], manuscript

Miscellaneous Genealogical Material. Most undated and not in family name order.

Correspondence and notes regarding Mrs. Robert Garrett's ancestors.

Correspondence other than immediate T. T. Upshur (d. 1910) family, arranged chronologically.

One partial letter is about the Dunn Family.

Correspondence about Cave Jones.

Correspondence about Cave Jones.

Correspondence about Upshur, Teackle, and Ashley.

Correspondence about Upshur, Teackle, and Yerby.

Correspondence about Yerby, Wilson, John Upshur, and Teackle.

Correspondence about Teackle and Upshur.

Correspondence about Teackle, Upshur, and Martin.

Correspondence about Teackle, Jones, and Upshur.

Correspondence about Teackle, Christian, and Graham.

Correspondence about Upshur, Teackle, Wise, and Smith.

Correspondence about Teackle and Upshur.

Correspondence about Teackle and Upshur.

Correspondence about Teackle.

Correspondence about Teackle, Parramore, and Upshur.

Correspondence about Smith, Upshur, Miles and Bowdoin.

Correspondence about Upshur and De Saussure

Correspondence about Uphur and Blanding.

Correspondence about Upshur, Thomas T. Sr. to Jr.

Correspondence about Upshur, Christian and Blanding.

Correspondence about T. T. V. Jr., Teackle, Irving, Wilson, etc.

Correspondence about Irving, etc.

Correspondence about Nottingham, Upshur, etc.

Correspondence about Cotton - Grinnan, etc.

Other Letters, Legal Papers, Accounts, Miscellaneous Papers

Thomas Teackle Upshur Family letters except those from his wife which are in Box 28.

Caroline Blanding Upshur letters to her husband - Thomas Teackle Upshur.

Account book is indexed.

Contains personal and miscellaneous account records.

Part of John Upshur's will.

Copy of December 5, 1696 will of Owen Edminds, Northampton County, and copy of May 7, 1662 will of John Willcockes, Northampton County.

License to keep an ordinary, Northampton County.

Copy of bond made to Anne Tompkins, by William Hewitt, John S. Harmanson, John Burton and William Ronald, Northampton County

Proposed indenture between Richard and Susanna Smith, Nelson Robins and John Upshur, partners, in Northampton County. Legal opinion on back by Littleton W. Tazewell. Copy of will and last codicil of James Hamilton, Bush Hill, Philadelphia, County, Pa. dated October 18, 1780 .

Muster fines, tithes, etc. owed by, and payments to sheriff.

Copy of promissory note to John McLean, Northampton County, assigned to J.L. Fullwell October 27, 1784, by McLean. Endorsed as paid November 13, 1792, by Fullwell.

Copy of David Edmunds Will Northampton County

Promissory Note to Robert and Alex Riddell, signed, Baltimore with endorsements.

Footnote apparently torn from a deed, signed by Taylor.

Bond endorsed to Thomas Upshur on December 11, 1790.

Receipted November 25, 1795.

Ann Kendall: copy of deed to John Upshur, January 17, 1797. John Milby Jr., Northampton County: deed to Sally Eyre, February 18, 1797. Estate of Thomas Parson's with executors John Wise and Tully Wise.

John Upshur, Jr., Northampton County ,bond to John Boisnard, Accomac County for £300 and one for £200.

John Teackle and Anthony West promissory note to John Fosque, etc., dated 1800 January 21; John Teackle of Cradock and Accomack County: promissory note to Robert Jenkins, etc., dated 1800 January 30; Littleton Dennis and wife of Somerset County, Maryland indenture between them and James Upshur, Accomack County, Va., dated 1800 July 20; Power to take deposition from Elizabeth Dennis, dated 1800, July 29; and John Bloxom and wife, Northampton County, indenture between them and John Upshur, dated 1800 October 13.

John Upshur, Jr. note to Littleton Dennis Teackle for $903.00.

John Teackle, promissory note to Andrew Baily, dated 1802 January 15; John Teackle Promissary note to G. and P. Hack, dated 1802 January 21; Deed between Hillary Stringer, Northampton County, and John Upshur, dated 1802 May 5; and John Upshur promissory note to Sally Stran[?], Northampton County, dated 1802 May 21.

Thomas Evans legal opinion, dated 1804, March 26 and James and William Upshur land survey for 760 acres of land, dated 1804 July 21.

George and John Teackle, Accomack County, bond to Richard Rogers, dated 1807 July 6 and endorsed June 25, 1808 by him to Wm. Gibb, and receipted October 11, 1808 and George and John Teackle, Accomack County, bond to Thomas Parramore, Northampton County, assigned by him March 24, 1808 to George Young and receipted April 13, 1809.

Indenture between Littleton Dennis Teackle, Somerset County, Maryland and Littleton Upshur [and wife?], Northampton County, Va. Regarding sale of part of Upshur's [?], Northampton County.

Copy of bond, William Gillett, Accomack County, [and] Hillary Stringer same county, 1809; Promissory note, John Teackle and Joseph [?] to John K. Revell, 1809 September 23; note of John [?] of Craddock, to Mathew Bean [?], 1810 January 1; note from James and Susan Upshur to John Eyre, with certification of Susan Upshur, 18[?] June 10; and Bond of James Upshur to John [Teackle?], 1811 August 16.

Commission in militia for George T. Yerby and John [Upshur?] Senior and a deed with A. P. [?] Upshur.

Confederate Bond of 1864 - [?] E. H. Smith. Slaem, Marion and Memphis R.R. [?]. Bond 7 letters.

Bombay, Education Society's Press 1880.

New York 1886.

Schoharie, N. Y. 1897.

Published by Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society.

Forty-second annual meeting.

Milnor Ljungstedt, Publisher, Bethesda, Rt. 1, Maryland.

Milnor Ljungstedt, Publisher, Bethesda, Rt. 1, Maryland.

Milnor Ljungstedt, Publisher, Bethesda, Rt. 1, Maryland.

Presentation Exercises.

Paper read before the California Genealogical Society by Zoeth S. Eldredge. The Murdoch Press, San Francisco, 1901.

Letter of Lyon G. Tyler, Pres. of William and Mary College. Richmond, Va.

Autographed.

Includes list of officers for 1895-1896. Richmond, I.N. Jones, 1895

Houghton, Mifflin and County, Boston.

Instructions to correspondents.

Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany, N. Y.

Information wanted for official register of matriculates of V.M.I.

Form No. 304

Biographical / historical:
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