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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Pauline E. Burks Family Papers

9 Cubic Feet 15 boxes, 4 oversize folders
Pauline E. Burks of Richmond, Virginia, collected genealogy materials about her husband Broaddus Vaughan Burks' family. The papers include correspondence, account books, essays, receipts, newspapers, and plats and surveys of the Broaddus, Burks, Edmonds, Taliaferro, and Vaughan families of Amherst County, Virginia. Materials focus mainly on the Vaughan and Burks families and range from 1760s land grants to 1970s family correspondence.
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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

John W. Warner papers

756 Cubic Feet Approximately 730 cubic foot boxes, 42 document boxes, and oversize scrapbooks and folders.

This collection includes general and constituent correspondence, office files, speeches, appointment books, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings documenting Senator Warner's life and career.

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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

John W. Warner papers

756 Cubic Feet Approximately 730 cubic foot boxes, 42 document boxes, and oversize scrapbooks and folders.

This collection includes general and constituent correspondence, office files, speeches, appointment books, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings documenting Senator Warner's life and career.

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College of William and Mary

Jack Eric Morpurgo Papers

23.00 Linear Feet

*Note to reserachers: Series 2 is stored offsite. Please allow 72 hours notice for retrieval.*

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College of William and Mary

Philip Slaughter Diary

1.00 Linear Feet

Fragment of a diary, 1777, kept by Philip Slaughter probably while serving in the 11th Virginia Regiment which concerns the campaign in Pennsylvania. The diary mentions John Marshall and also includes Slaughter's account for 1837.

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Diary Box MsV Box 142, Folder 1

Philip Slaughter Diary 1.00 Linear Feet

Fragment of a diary, 1777, kept by Philip Slaughter probably while serving in the 11th Virginia Regiment which concerns the campaign in Pennsylvania. The diary mentions John Marshall and also includes Slaughter's account for 1837.

College of William and Mary

Henry Toler Diary

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This small diary was kept by Henry Toler from December 21, 1782 through October 20, 1783 and from April 21 through November 6, 1786. The diary begins with Toler leaving Philadelphia, where he had received his training as a minister, and traveling back home to Virginia, where he took up the life of an itinerant Baptist preacher. Funding for his education and his first horse had been provided by Baptist-convert Robert Carter of Nomini Hall, whom Toler frequently visited. Toler rode circuit through Tidewater and Piedmont Virginia, from the Lower Peninsula to Northern Neck and as far west as Goochland and Louisa counties. The 1786 section of the diary includes the establishment of a church in Westmoreland County, where Toler became a more settled minister.

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Diary and transcription Box MsV Box 142, Folder 1

Toler begins his diary as he is preparing to leave Philadelphia and take up his career as an itinerant Baptist preacher in Virginia. His education had been funded by Robert Carter of Nomini Hall, who also provided the horse Toler rode from Philadelphia and on his circuits in Virginia. Toler records his travels and the occasions when he preached or heard other preachers, usually citing the Biblical texts of the sermons. He often notes the doubts, anxieties, and hopes that occupy him as he pursues his career. In 1786 he helps establish a church at Nomini in Westmoreland County, where he becomes a more settled minister. His first child is born. 4 x 6 in., with a loose, paper cover. A few pages are missing, and the section covering 1786 begins and ends in mid-sentence. Accompanying the diary are issue 31 (1992) and issue 32 (1993) of The Virginia Baptist Register, containing a two-part transcription of Toler's diary.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Dillard-Larkin Family Papers

1.9 Cubic Feet 3 boxes
This collection contains correspondence to and from the Dillard, Larkin, Turner, Christian, and Wallace families. The collection also includes financial documents and records, speeches, photographs, and personal papers from the Dillard and Larkin families. Materials range from approximately 1811 through 1955.
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Dillard-Larkin Family Papers 1.9 Cubic Feet 3 boxes

Dillard, James Spotswood, 1791-1866
This collection contains correspondence to and from the Dillard, Larkin, Turner, Christian, and Wallace families. The collection also includes financial documents and records, speeches, photographs, and personal papers from the Dillard and Larkin families. Materials range from approximately 1811 through 1955.
West Virginia and Regional History Center

Dille Family of Monongalia County (W.Va.), Financial, Legal, and Military Papers

0.25 Linear Feet 2 1/2 in. (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 oversize folder)
Miscellaneous nineteenth-century financial, legal, and military materials chiefly related to the Dille, Dawson, and Evans families of Morgantown, Virginia (now West Virginia). Papers chiefly contain surveys of and land grants for Monongalia County, Virginia, from 1792 to 1875 (many of these are oversize), including plats sold to O.H. Dille in 1839 and 1875. There is also an oversized plan of Morgantown, Virginia, 1785-1824, showing deeds along the Monongahela River and Decker's Creek. Military materials consist of an 1819 pension for John Fairchild, killed during the War of 1812; declarations about military service during the Revolutionary War written in 1832; and a May 1864 letter from R. W. Dawson regarding the Union 10th Army Corps at Bermuda Hundred during the Civil War. Miscellaneous items include checks from Morgantown banks, 1873-1874; receipts, 1816-1874; scattered Dille genealogical information, undated; materials from the Morgantown Presbyterian Church, 1896-1897; and undated photographs.
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Dille Family of Monongalia County (W.Va.), Financial, Legal, and Military Papers 0.25 Linear Feet 2 1/2 in. (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 oversize folder)

Dawson, Dille, and Evans families
Miscellaneous nineteenth-century financial, legal, and military materials chiefly related to the Dille, Dawson, and Evans families of Morgantown, Virginia (now West Virginia). Papers chiefly contain surveys of and land grants for Monongalia County, Virginia, from 1792 to 1875 (many of these are oversize), including plats sold to O.H. Dille in 1839 and 1875. There is also an oversized plan of Morgantown, Virginia, 1785-1824, showing deeds along the Monongahela River and Decker's Creek. Military materials consist of an 1819 pension for John Fairchild, killed during the War of 1812; declarations about military service during the Revolutionary War written in 1832; and a May 1864 letter from R. W. Dawson regarding the Union 10th Army Corps at Bermuda Hundred during the Civil War. Miscellaneous items include checks from Morgantown banks, 1873-1874; receipts, 1816-1874; scattered Dille genealogical information, undated; materials from the Morgantown Presbyterian Church, 1896-1897; and undated photographs.
College of William and Mary

Dismal Swamp Collection

0.01 Linear Foot

Transcripts collected circa 1922 by Earl Gregg Swem in connection with his editing of William Byrd's Description of the Dismal Swamp and a Proposal to Drain the Swamp. Includes land entries made in the Dismal Swamp; petitions, 1763-1785, to the Governor and Council; and papers, 1764-1785, of George Washington concerning the proposed canal in the Dismal Swamp.

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Dismal Swamp Collection 0.01 Linear Foot

Transcripts collected circa 1922 by Earl Gregg Swem in connection with his editing of William Byrd's Description of the Dismal Swamp and a Proposal to Drain the Swamp. Includes land entries made in the Dismal Swamp; petitions, 1763-1785, to the Governor and Council; and papers, 1764-1785, of George Washington concerning the proposed canal in the Dismal Swamp.

College of William and Mary

Tazewell Taylor Papers

0.25 Linear Feet

This collection contains correspondence to and from Taylor, account books, financial statements, and deeds and other documents for the Dismal Swamp Company. Includes correspondence related to William & Mary. The collection also includes a land indenture between William and Mary Cunningham and Edmund Christian and the College of William and Mary regarding land in Hanover County.

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Tazewell Taylor Papers 0.25 Linear Feet

Taylor, Tazewell, 1810-1875

This collection contains correspondence to and from Taylor, account books, financial statements, and deeds and other documents for the Dismal Swamp Company. Includes correspondence related to William & Mary. The collection also includes a land indenture between William and Mary Cunningham and Edmund Christian and the College of William and Mary regarding land in Hanover County.

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