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Start Over Collection Genealogy Collection, 1880/2001 Date range 1958

Genealogy Collection, 1880/2001 7.00 Linear Feet

An artificial collection of genealogical materials; ca. 1880 to 1993; many of which were probably collected by Dr. Earl Gregg Swem in connection with the publication of genealogical information in the "William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd Series". Includes correspondence, clippings, coats-of-arms, charts, and family histories. Most newspaper clippings are from "The Standard" in Richmond, Virginia from the early 1880's.

  1. College of William and Mary

Harris Family, 1914/1988 Box 6, Folder 21

Scope and Contents Newspaper clipping. Charts on the Harris Family of William Harris and Mary Netherland Harris of Albemarle County, Virginia ending with Rebecca Diggs Coleman (received as part of the Hart Collection). Copy of a small book on the Harris Family, beginning with Thomas Harris of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, entitled, "Harris Genealogy" compiled by Gideon Dowse Harris of Columbus, Mississippi, dated 1914. (Mss. Acc. 1988.17)

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Genealogy Collection, 1880/2001
  3. Series 1: Alphabetical Files by Last Name

Jones Family, 1942/1958 Box 9, Folder 5

Scope and Contents Newspaper clipping. Family tree beginning with Rowland Jones, born 1608, 1 page. Report entitled "Ancestors-Descendants John I. Jones who married Mary Ellen (McCann) Swartzelder, Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky" compiled by W.R. McCann of Hopewell, Virginia. 1958. 19 pages. Newspaper clipping on Garibaldi Jones. Typed notes on Peter Jones Family of Surry County, Virginia, 5 pages, given by Charles Edger Gilliam of Richmond, Virginia in 1942.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Genealogy Collection, 1880/2001
  3. Series 1: Alphabetical Files by Last Name

Randolph Family, 1904/1977 Box 12, Folder 29

Scope and Contents Cardboard card with coat-of-arms of the Randolph Family. Photocopy of a report entitled "The Randolph Family, a Genealogy" by Gerald S. Cowden, undated, 50 pages. Photocopy of the family record of the Randolph Family, with an index, undated, 50 pages. Photocopy of a Randolph Family tree, beginning with Elizabeth Randolph who married Richard Bland, 4 pages. Typed transcription of an article "Randolph Family No. 1" written for "the Critic." Typed transcription of a letter from William M. Randolph of Memphis, Tennessee to G.M. Wilson of Richmond, Virginia about the Randolph Family, dated September 27, 1907. Report entitled "Genealogy of the Henry Randolph Family of Virginia" compiled by George Matthews Wilson, February 10, 1904, 9 pages. Other items include newspaper articles and transcripts of wills.Items donated by various people, including Wassell Randolph of Memphis, TN (1956) and Herbert R. Preston, Jr. of Baltimore, MD (1977).

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Genealogy Collection, 1880/2001
  3. Series 1: Alphabetical Files by Last Name

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