Baird Family Papers

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:

Copyright to this collection was retained by the family and researchers should first contact the Special Collections Research Center.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:

Baird Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
8.01 Linear Feet
Creator:
Hunter, R. M. T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), 1809-1887
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Baird Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes papers, 1656-1848, concerning Essex County, Va. including land records and wills, many of which relate to the Rowzee family. Many of the records date from the seventeenth century.

The collection also includes correspondence, 1830-1920, of members of the Baird family including letters, 1859-1911, of Edward R. Baird while attending the University of Virginia, serving in Pickett's Division and as superintendent of schools in Essex County.

There are also letters of William Baird while attending the University of Virginia and business correspondence of the family with publishers and with cigar manufacturers. The collection also includes papers, 1835-1897, of members of the Hunter family including R. M. T. Hunter.

1994.46 Addition: Copy of Baird-Rowzie genealogy chart and Samuel Barron I genealogy chart.

2008.271 Addition: "Letters to a Nineteenth Century Physician" paper by R.D. Jordan. Papers concerns letters from owners of ailing slaves in Albemarle County, Virginia to Charles Brown, a Charlottesville physician.

2 items. 1 photostat included.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Document signed.

1 page. Document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. The deed is transferred from John Weine, Rappahannock County, to Edward Rowzee, March 11, 1665. 1 p.

1 page. Document signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

2 pages. Document signed.

2 pages. Document signed.

1 page. Document signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

2 pages. Document signed.

Document signed.

2 pages. Autograph document.

1 page. Document signed.

1 page.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed. Modern autograph copy included.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

5 pages. Autograph document signed.

3 pages. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

2 pages. Autograph document. Autograph copy included.

Fragments. Autograph document signed.

Scope and Contents

Two questions about a will from Jo[h]n Rowzee to Edward Barradall. 2 pages. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Reply from Edward Barradall, 12 March [?].

Signed by William Gooch. 1 page. Document signed.

1 page. Document signed.

1 page. Fragments. Document signed.

2 pages. Document signed.

2 pages. Document.

2 pages. Autograph copy signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

6 pages. Autograph document signed.

Description of land deeded to John Rowzee by John Noel. 1 page. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Description of land deeded to Tho[ma]s Andrews by John Noel, 1754. 1 page.

1 page. fragments. Autograph document.

1 page. Printed document signed.

3 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Fragments. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph document.

1 page. Copy of autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Document signed.

7 pieces.

2 pages. Autograph document.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph document.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

Appointment of W[illia]m Boutwell as guardian to Mary Ann Boutwell, W[illia]m Boutwell, John Boutwell; also to Burkenhead, Elizabeth and Mary Boutwell; signed by Tho[ma]s Jones, D[i]st[rict] Att[orne]y. 1 page. Copy of autograph document signed. Including autograph note signed on verso. Recept from W[illia]m Boutwell to William Rowzee, 4 Nov. 1784. 1 page.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

Order of payment to Thomas Hawkins, Essex County, from W[illia]m Boutwell to pay W[illia]m Gray. 1 page. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Receipt from J[o]hn Gray to Thomas Hawkins, 13 Sept. 1784. 1 page.

Statement of a bond between W[illia]m Rowzee and W[illia]m Boutwell. 1 page. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Receipt to W[illia]m Boutwell, 18 Aug. 1785. 1 page.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

An order for two barrels of corn and a request for a statement of his account. 1 page. Autograph letter signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph letter signed.

Receipt from Boutwell to Thomas Hawkins. 1 page. Autograph document signed. Including autograph document signed on verso. Receipt from John Boutwell to Thomas Hawkins, 27 Oct. 1785. 1 page.

1 page. Autograph document.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

2 pages. Autograph copy signed.

A list of bonds paid to Jo[h]n Hord by W[illia]m Rowzee. 2 pages. Autograph document. Including autograph document on verso. Receipt from John Hord to William Rowzee. 1 page.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph letter signed.

4 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.

4 pieces.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

22 pieces.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

2 pages. Autograph document.

lp. Copy of autograph document signed.

2 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph letter signed.

1 page. Copy of autograph document signed.

Agreement made between John Rowzee and Apphia Rowzee. 1 page. Copy of autograph document signed. Including copy of autograph document signed on verso. Agreement admitted to record in Essex County by John P. Lee, Clerk, 20 June 1814. 1 page.

2 pages. Copy of autograph document signed.

4 items. Autograph document.

4 pages. Autograph letter signed.

2 pages. Autograph letter signed.

1 pages. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

5 items. Autograph document.

1 page. Autograph document.

1 page. Document signed.

1 page. Autograph document.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Autograph document.

1 page. Autograph document

1 page. Autograph document.

3 pages. Autograph document signed.

1 page. Document signed.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

6 items. Autograph document.

1 page. Autograph document.

1 page. Autograph document signed.

2 pages. Autograph document signed.

3 letters. Autograph letter signed.

53 items.

97 items.

11 items.

3 pages. Autograph letter signed.

1 page. Autograph document.

1 page. Autograph document.

15 pieces.

1 page. Fragments. Sk.

lp. Sk.

lp. Sk.

2 pages. Sk. and Document.

11 items.

22 items.

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24 items.

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21 items.

21 items.

2 items. Autograph letter signed.

4 pages. Autograph letter signed.

15 items.

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15 items.

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81 items.

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55 items.

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125 items.

17 pieces.

2 pieces. Document.

39 items.

69 items.

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48 items.

41 items.

23 items.

32 items.

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15 items.

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23 items.

6 items.

12 pages. Autograph manuscript.

1 page. Document signed.

1 item. Pamphlet.

2 items. Document signed.

1 page. Document signed.

Signed by E.R. Watson and John A. Meredith, two judges of the Commonwealth. 1 page. Document signed.

17 items.

8 items.

5 items. Photograph and newspaper.

2 items. Typewritten document signed and manuscript.

2 items. Manuscripts.

5 items.

18 items.

2 items. Manuscript volume.

Copy of Baird-Rowzie genealogy chart and Samuel Barron I genealogy chart. Addition.

"Letters to a Nineteenth Century Physician" paper by R.D. Jordan. Papers concern letters from owners of ailing slaves in Albemarle County, Virginia to Charles Brown, a Charlottesville physician. Addition.

26 items.

20 items.

15 items.

12 items.

3 pages Autograph letter signed.

10 items.

5 items.

34 items.

Acquisition information:
Deposit of 3,312 items by Elizabeth W. Baird, Imogen W. Baird, and Samuel B. Baird in 1942; and Acc. 1994.046 gift of 2 items by Lili Blackwell on 6/7/1994. 2008.271 addition a gift of R. D. Jordan.