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Fontaine family. Papers, 1760-1892.

Title: Papers, 1760-1892.

Primarily papers of Walter Lloyd Fontaine (1787-1860), lawyer of Buckingham County, Va., including correspondence, 1810-1860, accounts, 1810-1861, and miscellaneous legal documents. Correspondents include Archibald Austin ([1772-1827] concerning abolitionists), William Sheridan Cabell ([1793-1862] concerning internal improvements), James Caskie ([1792- 1866] concerning the Bank of Virginia), Cary Charles Cocke (1814-1888) and John Hartwell Cocke ([1780-1866] concerning the construction of a dam by the James River and Kanawha Company near New Canton, Buckingham County), Walter F. Smith (concerning Hampden-Sydney College), and others (concerning Asbury Crenshaw (d. 1851) and Virginia Mills, Buckingham County). Accounts concern fees paid to Fontaine for legal services and fees paid by him for medical services, as well as fees paid to the Female Collegiate Institute, Buckingham County. Legal documents include land grants, deeds and agreements, many concerning Virginia Mills. Also included are estate papers of George Nicholas (d. 1812), David Ross (1740?- 1817), David Ross (d. 1821), and James Henry Fontaine (d. 1827), all of Buckingham County.

ArchivalResource: 929 items.

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Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837. Austin-Twyman papers, 1765-1939, 1800-1890.

Title: Austin-Twyman papers, 1765-1939, 1800-1890.

Papers of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham counties, Va. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress and the Virginia House of Delegates. Subjects included War of 1812, politics and business of the Virginia General Assembly. Collection also includes papers of Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman, his wives and children, as well as the correspondence and accounts of James Madison Spiller. The correspondence of Twyman and Spiller concerns slavery, the study and practice of medicine, and education. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal, letters concerning the Civil War, accounts and legal documents concerning various counties and genealogical material.

ArchivalResource: 10,706 items.

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Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765-1939.

Title: Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765-1939.

Papers of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham Counties, Virginia.

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Tidewater, Va. Letters [manuscript], 1814-1834.

Title: Tidewater, Va. Letters [manuscript], 1814-1834.

Include letter, John B. Tate, Camp Mitchel, Henrico County, Va., 4 November 1814, to Jacob Vanlear, Augusta County, Va., relating camp news and concerns about the soldiers' pay. Also include letter, Charles Ellis, Richmond to Archibald Austin, near Buckingham Court House, 1834, concerning prices for cotton and wool blankets with the request that Austin not publicize the wholesale prices among the retail merchants near Buckingham Court House.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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