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Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884,. Papers of the Grinnan family of Brampton, Madison Co., Va. 1773 (1843-1937) 1981.

Title: Papers of the Grinnan family of Brampton, Madison Co., Va. 1773 (1843-1937) 1981.

Papers of the Grinnans and related Coalter, Bryan, Duryea, Tucker, and Glassell families center on Randolph Bryan Grinnan, Southern Presbyterian missionary to Japan, 1885-98, and pastor of churches in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Norfolk, Va., and to a lesser extent on his son Randolph Bryan Grinnan a University of Virginia medical student. Topics of interest in the correspondence include a biography of John Randolph of Roanoke; the War of 1812; politics in 1849 including the Whigs, tariff, loco-focos, and John C. Calhoun; secession and the Civil War; blacks; life at U. Va. in the 1870s, 80s, 1920, and 30s; life at Hampden-Sydney College in the 1870s; Pantops Academy, Charlottesville, Va. in the 1880s; missionary life in Japan in the 1880s and 90s; the Kentucky gubernatorial election of 1899; the Spanish American War; life at Randolph Macon Women's College in the 1930s; genealogy; and family matters. Passing references include cholera and yellow fever in New Orleans in the 1850s, vaccination in 1853, a visit to U. Va. by Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 1928, and the U.S. elections of 1932 and 1936. There are descriptions of Norfolk, Charlottesville and Kempsville, Va., London in 1854, Denver, Colo., Port Gibson, Miss., New York City, Ashville and Henderson, N.C., Columbia, S.C., San Francisco, New Orleans, and Louisville, Ky. Of special interest are the letters and 1864 diary of John F. Sale Co. H, 12th Virginia Infantry describing some of the bleaker sides of army life and referring to Seven Pines, Antietam (Crampton's Gap), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. Also of interest are items pertaining to John Randolph of Roanoke including a copy of Dr. Francis West's account of his final illness; essays by Georgia Screven Bryan Grinnan including one regarding family servants Abram and Lucy Carter together with their marriage certificate and her will; an essay on Brampton; an Iowa land grant, 1860, signed by James Buchanan, photographs, scrapbooks, newsclippings, and the Rev. Grinnan's Japanese notebooks and diary. Among the correspondents are Judah Philip Benjamin, Corbin Braxton Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan, John Randolph Bryan, John Stewart Bryan, Joseph Bryan, John Coalter, John Esten Cooke, Noah Knowles Davis, John H. Duryea, Eudora Glassell, James MacMillan Glassell, Andrew Glassell Grinnan, Cornelia Grinnan, Daniel Grinnan, Ella Grinnan, Helen Grinnan, Lena Leete Grinnan, Martha Estelle Duryea Grinnan, Nina Stuart Grinnan, St. George Tucker Grinnan, Joseph Henry, Samuel Hopkins, John Letcher, John William Mallett, Delia Bryan Page, James Alexander Seddon, Samuel Lewis Southard, Thomas Tudor Tucker, St. George Tucker, and Charles Scott Venable.

ArchivalResource: 1,800 items.

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Coalter, John, 1769-1838. Brown-Coalter-Tucker Papers (I). Group A, 1780-1858.

Title: Brown-Coalter-Tucker Papers (I). Group A, 1780-1858.

Papers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George Tucker, and others including several by female writers. Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford, Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809, College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the springs of Virginia. Group A also includes papers of Coalter's children: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship with Moses Drury Hoge.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21500101 View

Randolph, John, 1773-1833. Letter to John Randolph Bryan, concerning his ill-health [manuscript] 25 Apr. 1827.

Title: Letter to John Randolph Bryan, concerning his ill-health [manuscript] 25 Apr. 1827. 1827.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Emerson collection : relating to Albemarle County, Virginia families, 1600-1947.

Title: Emerson collection : relating to Albemarle County, Virginia families, 1600-1947.

The collection includes Tucker family bible records, 1774-1786; Bryan family bible record and genealogy chart; Minor and Carr family Bible records, 1683-1794, correspondence, 1930, and photographs. Also included are Bryan family letters, 1849; John Randolph Bryan Civil War record and photographs; Overton family correspondence and genealogy; Terrell family papers, 1877; and a sketch of James Watson, ca. 1715, from Scotland and Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 36 items.

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Grinnan, Andrew Glassell,. Papers of the Grinnan family, including letters to and from Andrew Glassell Grinnan, "Brampton," Madison County, Va. [manuscript] 1763-1907.

Title: Papers of the Grinnan family, including letters to and from Andrew Glassell Grinnan, "Brampton," Madison County, Va. [manuscript] 1763-1907.

Letters to and from John Randolph of Roanoke ; the story of the capture of Frances Madison Hite by Indians in the revolution ; letters from Henry St. George Tucker with material on the war of 1812 ; land investments by Dr. Andrew G. Grinnan in Kansas, West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia after the Civil War ; clippings and letters on the Civil War ; material on Braidwood's Institutions for the deaf and dumb. Correspondents include William Bolling, John Randolph Bryan, Joseph Bryan, Mrs. Frances Burnley, Joseph Cabell, John F. Coalter, Daniel Grinnan, Charles P. Howard, Andrew Johnson, Gen. Marsena R. Patrick, Henry St. George Tucker, and William Wirt.

ArchivalResource: 400 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967045 View

Grinnan family. Papers, 1645-1935.

Title: Papers, 1645-1935.

Papers of the Grinnan and related Bryan, Coalter, Glassell, Randolph, and Tucker families, all of Virginia. Represented are Daniel Grinnan ([1730-1800] of Culpepper County, including his will); Andrew Glassell ([1738-1827] of "Torthorwald," Madison County, including an inventory of his estate); John Coalter ([1769-1838] of "Bush Hill," Henrico County, including correspondence with John Brown [1762-1826] of Augusta County, concerning the establishment of state banks and the Virginia constitution, and biographical sketches); John Randolph ([1773-1833] of "Roanoke," Charlotte County), John Randolph Bryan ([1806-1887] of "Carysbrook," Fluvanna County, and "Eagle Point," Gloucester County, including correspondence, slave lists, 1845-1865, and autobiographical notes); Dr. Andrew Glassell Grinnan ([1827-1902] of Madison County, including correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and a commonplace book, 1800-1881, concerning mining and mineral resources); and St. George Tucker Coalter Bryan ([1843-1916] including his memoirs, 1843-1910?, concerning his family and plantation life, and an autobiographical sketch of his Confederate service in the 1st Virginia Artillery Regiment [Richmond Howitzers]).

ArchivalResource: 342 items.

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Grinnan, Andrew Glassell, Dr.,. Letters, 1879-1967, receipts of the Grinnan family [manuscript] 1789-1907.

Title: Letters, 1879-1967, receipts of the Grinnan family [manuscript] 1789-1907.

Chiefly correspondence of Dr. Andrew Glassell Grinnan, John Randolph Bryan, and business papers of Robert A. Grinnan and Helen Grinnan. Includes transcripts of letters of John Coalter, Henry St. George Tucker, James E.B. Stuart.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967411 View

Bryan family. Bryan and Minor family papers, 1807-1918; ca. 1930s [manuscript].

Title: Bryan and Minor family papers, 1807-1918; ca. 1930s [manuscript].

Scattered family letters, 1807-1918, of the Bryan and Minor families; Bryan family Bible records; reminiscences of John Randolph Bryan's experiences in balloon reconnaissance for the Confederate Army during the siege of Yorktown in 1862; and thirteen volumes of Bryan and Minor family records, chiefly consisting of typed transcriptions of biographies, autobiographies, and letters, including reminiscences of a former slave and servant, and relating to religion, education, household affairs, slavery, freedmen, plantation economy, and other aspects of 19th- century Virginia life.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24201799 View

Bryan, John Randolph, 1806-1887,. Papers of the Bryant, Coalter, Randolph, and Tucker families [manuscript] 1770-1887.

Title: Papers of the Bryant, Coalter, Randolph, and Tucker families [manuscript] 1770-1887.

Consisting chiefly of letters to and from the following: Elizabeth T. Coalter Bryan, 1812-1887, John Randolph Bryan, 1818-1835, Joseph C. Cabell, 1804-1827, Frances B. Tucker Coalter, 1791-1831, John Coalter, 1788-1832, St. George Coalter, 1822-1826, Francis Walker Gilmer, 1818-1821, John Randolph, Sr., 1770-1774, John Randolph of Roanoke, 1781-1833, Judith Randolph, 1796-1814, Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1804-1851, and St. George Tucker, 1781-1826. Letters to or from the following are also included: Theoderick Bland, Theoderick Bland, Jr., Delia F. Bryan, Thomas M.F. Bryan, Richard Randolph, St. George Randolph, Theoderick Randolph, John Taylor, Henry St. George Tucker, Lelia Tucker, Thomas Tudor Tucker, and William Wirt. There are also copies of the Augusta, Georgia, Weekly Republic, 9 July 1850, the Union Seminary Magazine in September-October 1893, and the Petersburg Virginia, Index-Appeal, 24 February 1901, as well as a few prints of John Randolph and a few Confederate prints.

ArchivalResource: 719 items.

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Carmichael, James, 1771-1831. Papers, chiefly of Dr. James Carmichael, relating to the Carmichael, Bryan, Tucker, and Randolph families [manuscript] 1787-1887.

Title: Papers, chiefly of Dr. James Carmichael, relating to the Carmichael, Bryan, Tucker, and Randolph families [manuscript] 1787-1887.

The collection iIncludes letters from John Randolph to Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter, John Coalter, John Randolph Bryan, St. George Tucker, and Henry St. George Tucker relating chiefly to personal and family affairs. Also several drawings of Randolph, some clippings, and his bookplate.

ArchivalResource: 181 items.

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McKnight, A. A. (Amor A.). A. A. McKnight papers, 1862-1996.

Title: A. A. McKnight papers, 1862-1996.

ALS (13 April 1862) containing Union army officer A. A. McKnight's eyewitness account of the balloon ascent by Confederate army officer John Randolph Bryan in the South's first attempt at aerial operations. McKnight also describes other incidents relating to his service with the 105th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. Includes photocopy of an article (1996) concerning Bryan and Confederate aerial operations.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Randolph, John, 1773-1833. Letters to Fanny Bland Coalter, 19 August 1811 [manuscript] 1811-1831.

Title: Letters to Fanny Bland Coalter, 19 August 1811 [manuscript] 1811-1831.

Letters to Dr. ... Brockenbrough, 10 February 1826, concerning the session of the U.S. Senate ; to John R. Bryan, 19 October 1831, concerning a rough Atlantic crossing.

ArchivalResource: p. ; cm.

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Bryan Family Papers, 1852 and 1931

Title: Bryan Family Papers 1852 and 1931

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