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York County (Va.). Papers, 1665-1862.

Title: Papers, 1665-1862.

Papers, 1665-1862, relating to York County, Va. Includes extracts, 1782-1788, from county records; copy of account, 1668, for funeral expenses of Thomas Foote; photocopy of will, 1775, of William Nelson; copy of newspaper advertisement, 1812, for sale of Bell-Field; and print, 1862, from a printed book of Wynn's Mill. The papers also include a manuscript copy of the Charles and New Pocosin [sic] Parish Register.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

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Allen family. Papers, 1850-1910.

Title: Papers, 1850-1910.

Include farm management accounts of Robert Henderson Allen (1817- 1900) for Oral Oaks plantation, Lunenburg County, Va.; personal accounts; agreements for rental of property in Lunenburg County, Va.; execution books, judgment books, and electoral tickets for Lunenburg County, Va.; and diaries concerning the management of Oral Oaks plantation and notes concerning weather, rotation of jobs among the slaves (also their births, illnesses and deaths), fertilizers, production of tobacco, social and business activities, effects of the Civil War on daily life, and a postwar visit to Thomas Foote in Macon, Miss. Account books also include home remedies and minutes of the Crooked Creek Grange No. 100 of the Patrons of Husbandry in Lunenburg County, Va.; and records of the school at Oral Oaks, Va.

ArchivalResource: 106 items.

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